{"id":1126,"date":"2023-09-08T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felixrozen.com\/sculpture\/sculpture-1971-1981\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T08:10:09","slug":"sculpture-1971-1981","status":"publish","type":"sculpture","link":"https:\/\/felixrozen.com\/en\/sculpture\/sculpture-1971-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptures (1971-1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cRozen remains completely a painter, so much so that it is possible to see in his canvases only a roar of color, the turbulence of his fires. On the other hand, his sculpture insists by definition more willingly on realism. It summarizes its strengths, it encloses it in a kind of very rapid, even elliptical, spatial signaling, whose elegance is a testament of discretion: it is best not to linger, in brief \u2013 to speak of the anguish that ties, the gesture that wounds, the dialog that is steeped in silence, freedom impossible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Jean-Jacques L\u00e9v\u00eaque in his preface to \u201cROZEN, Paintings &#8211; Sculptures 1971-75,\u201d Paris M.I.A., 1975.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On January 23, 1978, Felix Rozen wrote to Jean-Maurice Rouquette, Curator of the Mus\u00e9es d\u2019Arles:<br \/>\nDear Sir,<\/p>\n<p>Since our meetings in Arles last summer, I often think of you and the remarkable work you do for your museums.<br \/>\nI have a particularly vivid memory of your exhibition on Mesopotamian art (\u2026).<br \/>\nAs a child, one of the first artistic images that impressed me (\u2026) was a painting on the theme of shoes in a 1948 book about Van Gogh.<br \/>\nAs a teenager, shoes played an important role in another personal event that touched me. I\u2019d rather tell you in person, but I\u2019ll try all the same to summarize it.<br \/>\nAt the time, it was difficult to get shoes in Poland. One day, my mother managed to obtain a number of pairs. Given their rarity, she saw fit to constitute a small stock. These shoes later took on an extreme significance, since they survived my mother and I found them after her death by accident in a corner of a closet she had reserved for them. All this took on a new artistic dimension when, in 1972, I discovered another shoe in Collias\u2026<br \/>\n\u2026 a \u201clittle granny shoe\u201d buried in the earth. \u201cWhat a beautiful rock!\u201d I thought at first, since it showed only its tip, the tip of the iceberg. Imagine my astonishment when I wanted to play geologist and I grabbed the rock! It wasn\u2019t a mere pebble, but a real house: a splendid, twisted anthill-shoe (with a strap as for a little girl, but also with a heel, so ra-ther for a grandmother). A shoe anchored vertically in the earth, in which existed life, that of a whole anthill that had settled there.<br \/>\nThis is how the idea of the shoe was superimposed, in the past and in the present, in my head to become an acquisition of my creative subconscious (\u2026).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the 1970s, Felix Rozen made bronze casts of his sculptures at the Clementi Foundry in Meudon and at Bernard Grollier\u2019s home in Jaunay-Clan, near Poitiers.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1980s, after spending several months in New York City, his work took a turn that was \u201ccompletely new (\u2026). Until then, my sculptures were made of bronze. Now, I used much less \u2018refined\u2019 materials: the wax that used to be my preparation material became an autonomous material colored in the mass using pigments. Then, after a meeting with art-ist-firework expert Pierre-Alain Hubert, other explosive \u2018materials\u2019 were added.\u201d Cf. 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