Jean ZORKO (1937-2023), Torso, white marble
Description
What I like
I like this Jean Zorko’s Torso-1975 because of its shape, which recalls certain works by Jean Arp, the superb polish and patina of white marble, hollowed out, that we wish to caress, around which the eye wanders, discovering at each moment a new work. I like his size, large without being intrusive: often Zorko has created monumental works, sometimes in public spaces.
I admire the journey of this foreign sculptor, a professor at the Sorbonne, who succeeded in being awarded the Leopold Sédar Senghor Prize in 2012.
These pieces are fluid, elegant, with curves punctuated by hems specifying a shape.
Technical description
Jean ZORKO (1937-2023)
Torso- 1975
Torso
White marble, on a small flat black marble barrel base signed and dated 75.
Unique piece.
With certificate from the artist dated October 16, 1975, annotated Galerie Convergence, Nantes, stating “unique piece”
Dimensions and weight
Height: 40 cm – Width: 21 cm – Depth: 18 cm
Weight: 16,5 kg
Mix & Match
This beautiful sculpture, you want to caress it: also, would it be better to place it on a table, solid because of its heavy weight, with a wooden or stone top, avoiding glass, or better on a dedicated harness?
It is pleasant to be able to contemplate it from all sides, from the face of the chest, so powerful, up to the stylized buttocks.
So, I would like to put it on the table Orsay by Gae Aulenti, with its off-white top, or rather on the German coffee table with its orange ceramic top: these two tables are from the same years of creation as the sculpture! On the walls, his curves will take up those of Edgar Pillet’s work, from 20 years earlier, or better that of Lenine de Lima Medeiros from 1971.
Its polished white marble could match the gray metal so worked in Colonnes-1961 by Guillaume Leunens, but also the anthropomorphic brown-beige marble of Jean Podvin, from the 70s.
The Torso-1975 by Zorko will dialogue with our many Daum vases, playing the opacity of marble against the transparency of crystal.
Description
To know more
The sculptor
Jean Zorko was born in Slovenia in 1937. A mechanic by profession, he loves steel, which is for him a “noble material”.
He took drawing classes at the “Klas” School of Arts in Ljubljana. He began painting landscapes.
He does mountaineering, likes to confront nature and its own limits. He is passionate about trees that resist natural storms.
In Slovenia, he exhibited his paintings at a group exhibition in 1958. He exhibited alone in 1962.
He arrived in France in 1964. He worked at Renault as a mechanic by day and sculpted at night.
In 1968, he set up his sculpture studio in the Montparnasse district of Paris.
He gave courses in Arts-Plastiques and history of art at the Sorbonne from 1974 to 1986.
In 1979, he received the prize for contemporary sculpture from Fontenay-sous-Bois.
His work “Couple”, in elm burl and steel, made in 1974 is installed since 1982 at the Place de l’Amitié entre les peuples.
It was restored in 2002.
Jean Zorko participated in more than 150 international exhibitions.
He sculpts monumental works as well as more modest ones, in wood, steel, marble…
In 1998, he set up his entire studio in Faux-Fresnay, in the Marne, but still kept a pied-à-terre in Montparnasse.
In June 2012, Jean Zorko received the European Francophone Prize of Arts Léopold Sédar Senghor.
He died on October 7, 2023 in Faux-Fresnay.
A beautiful and authentic sculpture at a fair price
This Torso-1975 by Jean Zorko has been carefully selected for its aesthetic qualities, originality and fair price. Our choice focuses above all on the acuteness of the invention at the time of creation of this sculpture, whose signature by Jean Zorko is a guarantee of the enhancement of your new acquisition in your interior and a capacity to interact with your furniture, to match and mix to create a unique decoration.
Buying a sculpture by Jean Zorko is surely a reasonable investment, so great is the appetite for the 1970s.
Finally, buying a sculpture from 1975 preserves the resources of planet earth.
Additional information
| Weight | 16,5 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 18 × 21 × 40 cm |
