Frigate
Frigate was first called Mutiny, but Le Caër realised that what he had sculpted was not a revolt, it was a departure. This great metal vessel, set on a keel of driftwood gathered at the tip of Brittany, is putting to sea rather than rising up. The main sheet, salvaged from a shipyard in Brest, was cut and then curved to suggest the hull of a warship. The surface, gridded with a torch, stands for the ribs of the hull, and the copper reliefs for the ornaments of the royal frigates. The driftwood, bleached by salt and sun, gives the whole the paradoxical lightness of a ship on water. Frigate is a sculpture about the freedom to leave.
| Materials | Metal and wood |
| Artist | Pierre Le Caër |
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Pierre Le Caër
His artistic voice emerged in Paris in the spring of 1995. Since then Pierre Le Caër has been making unique assemblages in metal, wood and Breton stone in his 700 m² studio at Ploudalmézeau, facing the Iroise sea.