Lieven d'Haese Belgian, b. 1957
Philemon and baucis, 2022
bronze
30 x 33 x 40 cm
11 3/4 x 13 x 15 3/4 in
11 3/4 x 13 x 15 3/4 in
#6/8, limited 8 Editions + 4 Artist's Proofs
New Creation of 2022
Available Upon Order
Soon Exclusive Available in Gallery
Available Upon Order
Soon Exclusive Available in Gallery
€ 7,900.00
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Each sculpture of Lieven d'Haese is a 'trip'. It makes you travel through the memory and the imagination. This is the magic of his symbolic work and his 'savoir-faire' with...
Each sculpture of Lieven d'Haese is a "trip". It makes you travel through the memory and the imagination. This is the magic of his symbolic work and his "savoir-faire" with the sculpture and the foundry work. The subject awakes something deep inside and makes the artlover travel somewhere inside. It brings you direct to the roots...Look at the human expression, feel the movement,... you will certainly understand a message.
Provenance
Zeus and Hermes came disguised as ordinary peasants, and began asking the people of the town for a place to sleep that night. They had been rejected by all, "so wicked were the people of that land," when at last they came to Baucis and Philemon's simple rustic cottage. Though the couple was poor, their generosity far surpassed that of their rich neighbors, among whom the gods found “doors bolted and no word of kindness." After serving the two guests food and wine (which Ovid depicts with pleasure in the details), Baucis noticed that, although she had refilled her guest's beech wood cups many times, the pitcher was still full (from which derives the phrase "Hermes' Pitcher"). Realizing that her guests were Gods, she and her husband "raised their hands in supplication and implored indulgence for their simple home and fare." Philemon thought of catching and killing the goose that guarded their house and making it into a meal, but when he went to do so, it ran to safety in Zeus's lap.Exhibitions
April-May 2021: "BLOOMING" Exhibition, Art Thema • HéYī Gallery, BrusselsNov: NAMUR ANTICA, Art Thema Gallery, Namur Expo, Belgium