{"id":76837,"date":"2023-05-17T16:55:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T14:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/oeuvres\/la-grande-colonne\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:01:06","slug":"la-grande-colonne","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/en\/artworks\/la-grande-colonne\/","title":{"rendered":"La Grande Colonne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"VAN22_CHAPEAU\"><p>Famous for his allegorical sculptures in ceramic and bronze, Johan Creten has continued since the 90s to depict a world full of poetry, lyricism and mysteries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Johan Creten\u2019s imagination feeds on themes, motifs and objects that take on a symbolic meaning.<br>La Grande Colonne is a work that first appeared in marble powder and resin in 2010 and was installed for ten years at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Today, this majestic five-metre-high sculpture can be seen for the first time in bronze, next to the follies and the composed landscape of the Garenne Lemot park.<br>Mixing the forms of a tree, a flower, a person and an octopus\u2019s tentacles, this sculpture oscillates between abstract and figurative art and draws on many references from architecture and nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<\/div><\/section>\n\t<section class=\"VAN22_NOTE VAN22_BG_gris\"><div class=\"VAN22_LIMIT_SECTION\"><p>Johan Creten was born in 1963 and lives and now works in Montreuil, France. 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