{"id":74128,"date":"2023-05-23T10:29:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T08:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/oeuvres\/le-temps-dune-pause-allegorie-de-la-loire\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:34:23","slug":"le-temps-dune-pause-allegorie-de-la-loire","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/en\/artworks\/le-temps-dune-pause-allegorie-de-la-loire\/","title":{"rendered":"Le temps d’une Pause – All\u00e9gorie de la Loire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statue created by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bonneau, Guillaume Gr\u00e9goire and Yann Lefeuvre, sculptors in Ancenis and Oudon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Public statues can be found everywhere in our fair city. Whether they\u2019re standing tall in squares, parks, or on top of public buildings, they watch us and communicate the messages and values their makers had imbued them with. But what would happen if they left their pedestals and shook up the town?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivier Texier devotes his time to drawing absurd illustrations and comics filled with bizarre and unreasonable characters. Armed with only a pencil and a battalion of sculptors, he plays a game of \u201ccopying\u201d some of our statues to a life-size scale of 1:1, thus freeing Generals Cambronne and Mellinet from their martial posturing. He also offers the feminine allegories of Nantes and the Loire a chance to come down from their monumental fountain in Place Royale and discover a city and river they\u2019ve been embodying for nearly 160 years.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\t<\/div><\/section>\n\t

All\u00e9gorie de la Loire<\/h2>

Ducommun du Locle, 1865, bronze, foundry: Voruz, Nantes<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the lower tier of the monumental fountain in Place Royale, and facing in the same direction as the allegory of Nantes, another woman represents the Loire this time. Sitting, and also in drapery, she leans on two jugs pouring water into the Erdre and S\u00e8vre rivers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\t\n\t