JEAN-CLAUDE FARHI (Parigi 1940 - Saint Paul de Vence 2012)
He spent his childhood in Colombia, and then moved to the French Riviera, where he joined the Nice School (with Arman, Cesar, Ben, Venet, etc.): he became Cesar's assistant and began his first works in chromed metal and plastic supports, which he perfected in Rome, where he began to create large columns, steles and discs in plexiglass. In 1990 he inaugurated Dissémination in the Arena district of Nice: the largest sculpture in plexiglass ever made (34 m high, 18.75 m wide, 21 tons in total weight). Since then he has increasingly oriented himself towards sculptures in corten steel, even large-scale ones intended for open spaces, the most famous of which is located in Saint Paul de Vence (F), near the Fondation Maeght: “Secret Point” of 8 m in height.