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En 2000 déşireux dinviter un artiste à donner une identité forte à la place du Grand Marché, des commerçants et riverains ont confié cette commande à Xavier Veilhan. Lartiste a créé une figure genérique, avec un langage artistique volontairement réduit à lessentiel une forme, une couleur, un matériau à même de convoquer limaginaire de chacun. Le Monstre actualise dans un esprit ludique les figures héraldiques et fait ainsi écho au passé médiévàl de la place dont il est désormais le nouvel emblème.
CŒUVRE REALISÉE DANS LE CADRE DE LACTION NOUVEAUX COMMANDITAIRES INITIÉE PAR LA FONDATION DE FRANCE EN COPRODUCTION AVEC LA VILLE DE TOURS MEDIATION-PRODUCTION: ETERNAL NETWORK
In 2000, a group of shopkeepers and local residents were keen to invite an artist to lend a strong identity to the Place du Grand Marche, so they placed their commission with Xavier Veilhan. The artist created a generic figure with an artistic language deliberately reduced to essentials: a form, a colour, a material - capable of engaging everyones imagination. In a playful spirit, The Monster updates heraldic figures and thus echoes the mediaeval past of the square, where it has now become the new emblem.
WORK PRODUCED AS PART OF THE NEW PATRONS PROGRAMME INITIATED BY THE FONDATION DE FRANCE IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE CITY OF TOURS MEDIATION-PRODUCTION: ETERNAL NETWORK
The statue is located in the historical part of the city of Tours, it was made by the sculptor Xavier Veilhan in 2004 at the request of the merchants of the area, in order to give life to the area and the square where it is located.