Lot 555: Danu, b.1952 Siren steel signed and numbered 1/80

Danu, b.1952 Siren steel signed and numbered 1/80 108cm.; 42ins high Danu was born in 1955. He lives and works in Vence, on the French Riviera. He held his first exhibition at the Centre Culturele in Cagnes sur Mer when he was 18 years old. Exhibitions in Cannes, Paris, Deauville, Brussels, Monaco and Vence quickly followed. In 1979 Danu was accepted as a member of "Artiste Independent" and "Artistes Francais" From the outset Danu used several ways to reproduce the form and dimensions of the female body. He worked with stretched wires, later with engraved and painted plexi glass. Now the silhouette is cut in iron plates and the three dimensional effect appears by the carefully placed openings in the plate.