| "I began my studies inside my mother's womb: I started feeling my way." Pierre Szekely started to sculpt before he was born. And he has never stopped getting stone to speak, to say simple, fresh, smiling and sensual things. Real pieces of work done by a man who has had his share of existence (in a marshalling yard, where the Nazis were marshalling people for the camps, he escaped: "Acceptance of genocide was no law for me"). His sculptures tell us what life would be like if there were no more war. It is quite normal and natural, after all, to be interested in peace and to seek after it so earnestly when you learned to be an artist in the miracle of your mother's womb and you have seen extermination at such close quarters. "For thousands of years, war has led to more war; and the war is never won once and for all." With his hands and his sculpting materials he works at getting war lost for good and never found again. |
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