• Three sculptures are installed on the large beach of Saint-Nazaire.

  • This triptych, which represents a foot, a sweater and a digestive system, is signed by artists Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel.

It is a new work of the artistic course "Estuaire" which does not go unnoticed. For a few days, the construction machinery has definitely left and 

The foot, the sweater and the digestive system

have officially come out of the sand of the large beach of Saint-Nazaire, announced Le Voyage à Nantes on Monday. For several months, these three concrete statues, the highest of which is seven meters high, were being installed between the two jetties, a site nicknamed "the crab claw". "Like fragments of bodies, architecture or port monuments, they paint a landscape scale portrait of a modern civilization subject to erosion and colonization of the elements", describes Le Voyage à Nantes.

Signed by artists Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, the sculptures will be more or less submerged depending on the tides and should, little by little, be covered with algae or shells.

Like the thirty or so works of the artistic course which are spread out along the Loire between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, these figures, which take up "the colors of the beach" and the style of "port architecture" have been designed. "Depending on the site on which they are presented".

The digestive system, "the image of the interior and invisible world"

If the presence of a bare foot or a twisted sweater questions, that of the third element, namely a digestive tract, completely confuses.

The VAN gives some clues to understanding, speaking of a "strange creature with intertwined tubes" which "produces the image of the interior and invisible world, the idea of ​​energy and movement".

Asked, the Voyage à Nantes did not wish to communicate the cost of this installation.

In an article published last November,

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spoke of an envelope of 754,000 euros.

The work was financed mainly by the town hall of Saint-Nazaire and Le Voyage à Nantes (24% each) but also by the State and the European Union.

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  • Contemporary art

  • Beach

  • Nantes

  • Saint Nazaire

  • Culture

  • Sculpture