Trémois Bronze Relief Panel, Paris — Susse Fondeur Cast

4 October 2017 · Paris

A bronze relief by Pierre-Yves Trémois, cast by Susse Fondeur in Paris, mounted against a dark steel ground. A gilded arm reaches upward from a fractured root system; a fragmented skull floats above it; two faces press together at the lower left; an embracing couple rests in an oval niche to the right. The motifs — skull, birth, embrace — pull in opposite directions, yet the panel holds them on one surface. Gold patina against near-black steel does the compositional work that colour would only complicate.