Imperial Eagle, or Roman Eagle
« Imperial Eagle, or Roman Eagle » is an original work by Gabriel Lemaire Sicre, born of an industrial machine recovered in Graulhet, the former world capital of leather: Head from a lathe milling cutter, wings and feet from 1950s cinema seats, cogwheel, dismantled, cleaned, painted, and returned to a second life in which it no longer serves, it signifies. Gabriel Lemaire Sicre is represented by ARTDELION, an art agency in Paris. This work is not for sale.
| Materials | Head from a lathe milling cutter, wings and feet from 1950s cinema seats, cogwheel |
| Dimensions | H 125 × W 125 × P cm |
| Artist | Gabriel Lemaire Sicre |
Gabriel Lemaire Sicre
Gabriel Lemaire Sicre spent some twenty years in computing before devoting his life to colour. Since 2013, in the former Breilhac factory at Graulhet, in the Tarn, he has been building Le Paradis des Machines, a collection of one hundred and sixty-three works born of scrapped industrial machines.