Large Statue By Robert Leris 1981

Large statue by Robert LERIS dated 1981 Decorator by trade, he devoted himself to sculpture from 1975. Close to César and Tinguely. like them, he uses scrap iron. Sheet metal, fragments of car carcasses, exhaust pipes, bumpers, piled up at the back of his workshop were chosen according to the desired volume or shape and then welded. Far from being coarse, they are rich in details that are often unexpected, but always marvelously well executed. A figurative and phantasmagorical work, evoking the power of mechanical machines, beings in armor, fragile, at the limit of balance. Thanks to his mastery of technique and the balance of volumes, Léris expressed a fragility like heaviness. The expression of his characters, their faces and their outstretched hands, is a common denominator to all of his work. His sculptures give the impression of suspended time, as if petrified in movement. Numerous public and private collections in Bordeaux.