Large wall sculpture, light sculpture , light wall lamp.
(height 120cm x width 45cm)
Unique piece made by the Belgian sculptor Jules DeWaele, known under the pseudonym PIA MANU.
Great collector of fossils and trilobites, Pia Manu takes back on this sculpture with primitive and rough sculptural forms , primal forms created by the power of nature. Made of concrete, iron, pyrite and glass. Signed Pia Manu in a small cartouche.
Special order realised in 1959 for an owner in Flanders (Belgium).
Four important pieces by Pia Manu of this same provenance are presented by @igmarstuer and @pschantiques.
Representative of the Flemish Brutalists Pia Manu models or sculpts primitive forms with materials with a powerful or anti-poetic texture (as he himself calls them) using concrete, earth and slate.
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