{"id":100918,"date":"2024-03-15T15:11:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/oeuvres\/achronie-39\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:18:41","slug":"achronie-39","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/en\/artworks\/achronie-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Achronie 39"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like a curious, intrepid archaeologist, Marion Verboom takes her inspiration from architecture, geology, and art history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

She draws on figurative, geometric, as well as abstract subjects and motifs, which she reproduces, combines, and interprets in her sculptures. She may mix the top of a Merovingian pillar with an Aztec decoration, a contorted face with a composition of plants, or a lock of hair with seashell ridges and a sphinx\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In dialogue with the fa\u00e7ade of \u00c9glise Sainte-Croix, which is decorated in the purest of classical styles and topped with an allegorical belfry of trumpet-playing angels, Marion Verboom erects Achronie 39. The 8 sculptural fragments made of Jesmonite, cement, bronze, and aluminum, are each inspired in turn by a bestiary, an aquatic pattern, a flute, a Bruegelian character, clockwork, and Gallo-Roman objects from archaeological excavations in Nantes (Dobr\u00e9e Collection), including the crown of a column, and a mothergoddess nursing two infants. This year, the work finds its permanent home in the garden of the Passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2024, the work found its permanent home in the garden of the Passage.<\/p>\n\n\n

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