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拍品专文
Born in 1946 in Choukine, South of Lebanon, Chaouki Choukini soon moved to Paris in 1967 to study at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. His passion is to carve sculptures out of stone but mainly out of wood. Since 1973, he regularly exhibited his works in 'Salons' in Paris and
was awarded with the Prize for Young Sculpture in 1978 and the Taylor Foundation Prize in 2010.
The present work entitled Pietà, although entirely made from solid cedar wood, seems weightless because of Choukini's acute polishing technique and his play with hollowness and fullness, creating a certain musical rhythm and liveliness to his sculpture. The theme of the 'pietà' is only very subtly hinted in Choukini's sculpture because he uses this subject matter simply as a means to display his skills as one of the masters of post-modern sculpture as well as his imagination to create such strange constructions, described as 'soberly Baroque' by the Lebanese poet Salah Stétié. As many great masters throughout times, such a Michelangelo, Choukini enjoyed exploring the theme of the 'pietà', more specifically its human value both universal and incidental, as the artist seeks his works to be witnesses of mothers' sufferings and of the tragic death of innocent children in South Lebanon, which Choukini is originally from, and in Palestine.
was awarded with the Prize for Young Sculpture in 1978 and the Taylor Foundation Prize in 2010.
The present work entitled Pietà, although entirely made from solid cedar wood, seems weightless because of Choukini's acute polishing technique and his play with hollowness and fullness, creating a certain musical rhythm and liveliness to his sculpture. The theme of the 'pietà' is only very subtly hinted in Choukini's sculpture because he uses this subject matter simply as a means to display his skills as one of the masters of post-modern sculpture as well as his imagination to create such strange constructions, described as 'soberly Baroque' by the Lebanese poet Salah Stétié. As many great masters throughout times, such a Michelangelo, Choukini enjoyed exploring the theme of the 'pietà', more specifically its human value both universal and incidental, as the artist seeks his works to be witnesses of mothers' sufferings and of the tragic death of innocent children in South Lebanon, which Choukini is originally from, and in Palestine.