Two faces, two eras, one sculpture. On one side, the refined silhouette of François Pompon — the form the Burgundian master spent twenty years perfecting, stripped of every superfluous detail, reproduced for over a century by master moulders in the tradition of museum statuary. On the other, Richard Orlinski’s interpretation: the same animal reconstructed through planes, facets, sharp angles.
The matte white unifies both. The surface absorbs light rather than reflecting it, and that is precisely what lets the form speak. On the Pompon face, it extends the purity of the original. On the Orlinski face, it reveals the precision of each facet without distraction.
This double-faced edition is cast in reconstituted stone in the tradition of museum statuary, produced in collaboration with the Association François Pompon, which defends the moral rights of the artist. It bears the official Artémus hallmark and Orlinski’s signature embedded in the sculpture. Delivered in its Orlinski case.
