Hugues DELBERGUE (born 1953). Uninhabitable space. Oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated (19)75. H_131 cm L_98 cm "UNINHABITABLE SPACE In silence, he concentrates on himself. His great spiral arms inhale again and again. Increasing his strength with each step, He does not grow. With each new cycle of gaze, His powerful eye draws us in Again and again. Soon, it will seize us. His great arms from uninhabitable space will come for us. Wrapped despite ourselves in a momentum ever faster and more irresistible, We succumb fascinated. Gathered by the force of love, He'll take us to the fortress Filled with the treasure of eternity". 1985 - Hugues DELBERGUE

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