Prophète (Prophete, 2003)*
Description
Size: 35 x 12.5 x 8 cm; 13.7 x 4.9 x 3.1 in
Medium: Oak
Signed on the bottom
Provenance
Private Collection, Lebanon. Acquired by the present owner from Claude Lemand Gallery, Paris.
Location
Beirut, Lebanon
Description
Chaouki Choukini is a Lebanese sculptor who lives and works in France. He was born in Choukine, South Lebanon, in 1947 and studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Prix for Young Sculpture in 1978, Taylor Foundation Prize in 2010 and Prix de la Fondation Pierre Gianadda in 2015.
Choukini’s works are articulated through architectonic tensions and biomorphic elements. This Prophet is a perfect example of how an ascetic figure can emerge from what is apparently an abstract geometric structure.
In the artist’s recent monograph, Kevin Jones writes that “his later shift to a vertical orientation suddenly makes the work seem more “statuary”— the disruptive and unfamiliar vantage point of the “prone” sculpture cedes to a more recognizable frontal approach. The inter-body relationship here is balanced, equalised: both creator and creation are grounded on the same plane, poised upwards. Yet Choukini has a spatial surprise up his sleeve: he incorporates the reverse side of the vertical into his view.”
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