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LANTRE TERRE

Iron rods and chalk stonesSize: 12x9x6 m

Public commission artwork for the city of Loos and Lille3000 Fantastik FestivalPublic park, Loos, France

October 2012

The sculpture created by Fred Martin is an allegory of nature which regain its rights.The elements resume hand on the use of the natural resources by man.

The nearby quarry and caves which were exploited on this site emerge and reveal themselves to us through this sculpture.With this anthropomorphic work, the artist evokes the symbolism of the close quarry which seeks to leave earth or ground

Nature thus takes human form to extract herself from these caves which were embanked.The sculpture depicts poetically the rst moment,

the one when mineral elements are emerging from the basement to inquire about the place and its mutationThe artist takes as a starting point the history of the park which he attends since his youth.

These familiar places, initially source of ludic creations,then of inspiration for its rst creations were involved in the genesis of his artistic approach.

This monumental work thus embodies a double return to the roots.

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THE NAVEL OF RUA REIDH

Peat, moss and springDiameter 450 cm, 80 cm high, 50 cm depth

CEANGAL=CONNECTIONInternational Art Residency

Gairloch, Scotland, september 2012

The Navel of Rua Reidh

As I came across Rua Reidh, I realized that was the kind of landscape I was looking for.Since we arrived, we have been taken to various places each more beautiful than the other,

maybe too beautiful for me to accept adding something artistic to it.I wanted to feel the nature in its rougher aspect, where I could feel alive.

Open space, landscape with no one where I could feel the strongest wind, get soaked by rain in a few secondsand most importantly, where I could work with land. And there it is all peat, a soft and black texture in which I could dig, model and penetrate.

Important also because this material is still part of the living of people here,the fact you can smell it on evening when the re goes on in homes, that still people go and dig it, and more.

My rst idea was to dig in the peat till I reached a stone in order to reveal it

but something magic happened, I did not reach any stone, but a spring in which my foot fell into.So there it was. I had to use this water coming from within the earth... and landscape and body became one.

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KRAKENStraw and iron mech

100 meter long

Agitation gnrale, Public garden,Fresnes-sur-Escaut, France

September 2012

Giant tentacles made of straware rising from the Temple of Love to embrace columns.

They wrap around and then spreadand take over the garden and plants

that surround it to nally disappear into the ground.On his oating island in the middle of the garden,the Temple of Love seems inaccessible to walkers.

As if it were in a cage! No monkey nor beastbut here organic and architecture merge to become a hybrid creature

Kraken!

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LA MAIN DU CUR / THE HAND OF THE HEART

Iron rods and straw300x400x400 cm

Site specic artworkPartnership with City Center Social Action

and Garden of the Heart, social integration project

Jardins du Cur, Parc du Vignoble, Valenciennes, FranceJuly 2012

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THE ORCHID MAN

Wood600x400x400 cm

Site specic artworkwith the participation of inhabitants.

Riaumont, Livin, FranceJuly 2012

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WITHIN THE EARTH

Wood, straw and raw clay

Mines dArt en sentier, Vieux Cond, FranceJune 2012

Two giant hands made of earth dip their ngers into the soil

and open a crack, revealing the depths of a black heart of coal.

The sculpture symbolizes both manual work of the minorbut also his labors and sufferings.

Paradoxically it represents the violence caused by man to naturein order to extirpate its precious contents for our good.

Like two prehistoric monsters buried for millennia,the hands climb out of the earth to scratch it,

open its own esh and reveal the black within the earth.

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THE WATCHER

Wood, nails, leaves of palm trees braided and hamac600x400x350 cm

Artists In Residency In DUNE, Pondichery, IndiaJanuary 2012

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credit photo: fred martin

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