godgiGoudji, des mains d'or et de feu - Goudji, hands of gold and fire Goudji, (born July 6, 1941) is a French ...

godgiGoudji, des mains d'or et de feu - Goudji, hands of gold and fire Goudji, (born July 6, 1941) is a French sculptor and goldsmith, who was born in Georgia.

This is not a new, a book that lets the goldsmith speak. Goudji talks about his youth, his inspiration, his dreams, his art, his law, Answering questions from Bernard Berthod and Manuelle Anne Renault Langlois, he says with simple and deep words what his daily work is , the birth of firebirds, of the dreamlike bestiary that populates his work. Widely illustrated, the book offers the reader a journey “amazing in time and space to the unexpected borders of the marvelous.

His artwork combines the technique of the dinandery with hard stone incrustations in metal. His first work consisted of brooches and torques. He then went on to create canthares[check spelling], aquamaniles, rhytons, pyxides and animal figures. He hammers thin sheets of metal.

In 1976 he created the academician's sword for Félicien Marceau. He has created other swords for Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Raymond Barre and Maurice Allais.

His works are exhibited in art galleries and museums, in France and abroad. They have been offered by the French Presidents of the Republic, François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac or Nicolas Sarkozy, to Foreign Presidents.

The majority of the civil pieces are preserved in private collections. Several museums have some: Museum of decorative Arts of Paris, Museum Mandet de Riom, Dobrée Museum of Nantes, Museum of decorative Arts of Lyon, Museum of the Castle of Blois in France, Kunsthaus Dr. Hartl in Freising in Bavaria or Vatican Museums.

Hardcover

25 x 28 cm

144 pages

fine condition