LA GROSSE

"I have had several lives, several houses, several eras. I deny nothing. I only ask that there be several conferences: there we will find the Academy, the need for renewal, the daily life, the testimony in the face of the industrial civilization, abstraction, the fascination with new materials, my desire to restore order, my need to destroy, to rebuild.
Caesar (Hahn 1988, P152)

Born January 1, 1921 in Marseille, César (real name César Baldaccini) is a sculptor belonging to the New Realists movement and the Nice school. Trained at the School of Fine Arts in Paris where he met Hiquily, Guino, Féraud and Arman, at this time he created his first sculptures in welded scrap metal, several of which were purchased to join the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art ( Bat, 1954) and the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (The Scorpion, 1955).