• The making of the monumental Black Nike

    From 50 cm to 1 meter and on to the original size: 2 meters 44 cm

    50 cm prototype produced

    Summer 2017

    Akim MONET (b. 1968)

    Black Nike, 2017

    Slate-based composite

    Produced in collaboration with the Ateliers d’art

    de la Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand-Palais

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    50 cm edition initiated

    Fall 2017

    h. 50 cm - Ed. 25 + 5 AP

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    100 cm edition of 8 announced

    Winter 2018

    h. 100 cm - Ed. 8 + 4 AP - 3D print from original scans

    This is the step before the hand-worked gesso cast

    244 cm edition of 5 in progress

    Spring 2018

    From the 100 cm 3D print to the 2 m 44 cm hand-worked gesso cast. The large version is so large that it needs to be cast in 2 parts

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    Working on the original gesso of the 244 cm version

    Spring 2018

    The bottom half of the monumental life-size version is here seen almost complete. When the top section with the wings is completed, and both parts joined together, then the mould for the final slate sculpture can be produced.

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    244 cm edition of 5 in progress

    Spring 2018

  • Black Nike, 2018

    Slate-based composite

    Produced in collaboration with the Ateliers d’art

    de la Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand-Palais

    h. 244 cm - Ed. 5 + 2 AP

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