LA FAMILLE DE VOYAGEURS
by Bruno Catalano
La Famille de Voyageurs (The Travelling Family), Sculpture in Bronze (2014) by Bruno Catalano. What was left of where you were and where you will be going. These sculptures in bronze are on display at the Flower Dome, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. They are skillful works of art even without the omissions, but the missing parts of the sculptures make them truly extraordinary and unique. They leave room for the imagination – are they missing something, or is it something that these “voyagers” have simply left behind? What’s especially impressive is that some of the sculptures seem to stand on very little support, giving them a sort of ethereal and surreal appearance.
La Famille de Voyageurs depicts a young family visiting Gardens By The Bay before heading for the airport for their journey home. As they depart this tropical garden city, they take with them beautiful memories and leaves a part of themselves behind. This sculpture, a gift from Singapore Changi Airport to Gardens by the Bay, embodies the strategic collaboration between the two organisations. It is a partnership which brings the world of plants to Singapore, and connects Singapore to the world through the power of flight and aviation.
La Famille de Voyageurs, by French sculptor, Bruno Catalano, is inspired by the universal theme of travel. His eye-catching works, with their dashed bodies and the deliberate lack of volume, invite you to mentally reconstruct the possibility of the human potential.
Based on my understanding, La Famille de Voyageurs can also be express in different way. Nowadays, people travel to different place to visit the beauty or historical place with their digital devices and capture a lot of picture as memory of the place. But they don't really enjoy the place, they use the picture they captured as their memory instead of really being there to enjoy the place. So, La Famille de Voyageurs is totally expressed the meaning of travel, being there and merge together with the place. Although they are leaving, but there still leave one of their body part at the place as their memory.
A short video clip to look closer the La Famille de Voyageurs.
Travellers: Bronze Statues in Search of Themselves
French artist Bruno Catalano has created an extraordinary series of eye-catching bronze sculptures called “Les Voyageurs” in Marseilles that depict realistic human workers with large parts of their bodies missing. The sculptures were put on display in Marseilles to celebrate its position as the 2013 European Capital of Culture.
The picture below is also one of the famous bronze statues by Bruno Catalano. He has created an fascinating series of sculptures called “Travellers” which depict people setting out on their journey with suitcase in hand and the center of their bodies missing. It’s as if that hole is their lost self, and they’ve set out to rediscover it.
Life can often leave you feeling a bit lost for purpose, perhaps even empty inside, but there’s a great way to regain your clarity on what matters in this world: Go Traveling.
The Behind of Bruno Catalano
Bruno Catalano is a French artist born in 1960. His work reveal his desire to capture the viewers attention. Stamping his unique mark on the subject. Admiring art since his youth, it is only in 1990 that Catalano started a career as a remarkable sculptor. His talent lies in his ability to endow the inherently elusive material with a transcendent essence. As a romantic dreamer, his subject matter takes shape in the fantastic framework of the world where love, beauty and harmony reign. His passion for art will never lose its strength. "The universal theme of travel still inspires Bruno Catalano". Since he started to knead clay, hundreds of "travelers" have come out of his feverish hands, populating his studio while awaiting an unknown destination. His first works, compact and conventional, stayed tied to the elements of the Earth, whereas the series which follow doe not cease to acquire expressiveness and finesse. These astonishing works, with their dashed bodies and the determined lack of volume, invite the viewer to mentally reconstitute its limits. Thus, Van Gogh still leaves, his suitcase in hand, towards the Provencal countryside, but it is in a quasi-abstract lightness, open to the elements. It is not our destiny that Bruno Catalano persuades us to see and to meditate on ? Because through his statuary, he re-enacts the adventure of the human species, always between two riverbanks, repelling all borders." Jacques Lucchesi.
Bruno Catalano Bronze Statue Foundry Video Interview