Post war series (bronze)

65

casted bronze, plaster and stone

Collection(s):

Collection Mr. Beaudry de Québec

Collection UQÀM, Montréal

Collection Mr. Sarfati, Paris

Collection Mr. Zerfuss, Paris

Collection Mr. London, Paris

Collection de la Ville de Berlin

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Exposition(s):

Villa Medici, Rome

Salon de Mai, Salon de la jeune sculpture, Salon Comparaison, Galerie A, Salon des réalités nouvelles, Paris

Galeria Schneider, Rome

The works of this period are torn and tortured, bearing the scars of slow persecution, destruction and extermination. Created at the Villa Medicis in Rome and in Paris, they reflect a dramatic outlook on life.

• June 7th, 1965. Daily American. Rome
  In Porte de l'enfer, an eerie portal is suggested with nightmarish outlines. This is Dante's Inferno Door from which there is no escape…

• July 1st, 1965. Paese Sera. Rome
  His works are horrifying memories of the Nazi concentration camps. Dyens creates both shock and resonance...but his attitude is optimistic, open to the victory of life over death.

• October 19th, 1965. New York Herald Tribune. Rome
  "La mort lente a tortured sculpture composed of suspended spirals -symbolizes life’s withdrawal from itself."

• October 1965. Arts. Paris
  ...his works in recent years present Dyens as being one of the most authentic young artists of his generation – he is certainly the most self-assured and accomplished. His sculptures are not so much concerned with space than with a visceral metamorphosis of the actual world... Dyens, Prix de Rome, draws inspiration from animal, vegetal and geological sources...Dyens’s images are powerful, executed with the instinct and craft of a refined and inventive artisan.

• October 25th, 1965. Le Figaro. Paris
  Neither representation nor ideas count for Dyens, who remains fascinated by the unsaid and trembling impulse that beats beneath the shell of a word, a feeling, a reaction...It is impossible to remain indifferent to this work in its search of the primordial creation.
• May 18th, 1968. Le Soleil. Quebec City
  Georges Dyens creates an impressive Dantesque vision of a vegetal, fossilized world torn from the fabric of life, captured in static, eternal sculptures. As though faced with the traces of an explosion of the natural and rational world, one is struck by a disturbing, disquieting emotion. No sooner have these bronzes impressed the viewer that they begin to deeply overwhelm him.