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Does the hand want to bend the tree, or straighten it out? Is it trying to overpower it or help it regain its natural angle?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In 2024, le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes asked Max Coulon to work on the \u201cleaning\u201d pine tree near the Duchesse Anne streetcar stop: this pine seems to have defied the laws of gravity by growing horizontally. In a powerful gesture of apparent simplicity, Coulon grips it with a gigantic hand carved directly from the trunk of a Sequoia tree. Does this hand want to bend the tree, or instead to straighten it out? Is it trying to dominate it or help it regain its natural angle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uncertainty abounds, as always when trying to grasp the relationship between man and nature. The artist and Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes collaborated with the city\u2019s Parks and Gardens Department to take every necessary precaution to respect this extraordinary tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do not climb the tree or the sculpture.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\t<\/div><\/section>\n\t

Max Coulon was born in 1994. He lives in Paris and works in the Poush studios in Aubervilliers.
\nHe is represented by the Romero Paprocki (France) and Nosbaum Reding (Luxembourg, Brussels) galleries.<\/p>\n

Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to the “Nature et jardins” Department of the City of Nantes<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\t

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