Ruth Francken (aka Steinreich), (1924-2006), Homme chair, France, 1970
First edition Eric et Xiane Germain
Recreated Gallery X Plus
Maker Giulio S.A.Gazzerini
Moulded polyurethane foam, plaster moulding on a living model, polished stainless steel
On long term loan from the Centre national des arts plastiques, 1987
Inv. FNAC 3135
© Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance
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Ruth Francken has frequently changed her means of visual expression. Her works offer a range of unusual, efficent and highly symbolic shapes. The homme chair incarnates man, which the artist did not sculpt, but made from a plaster mould of the body of a man sitting on a chair for a Parisian gallery, Christiane and Eric Germain. This location, opened in 1970, specialized in the production of utilitarian objects created by artists is a real manifesto.