Moon Table

Artist Roland Piché (London, England, born 1938)

Date1985

Object NameSculpture

MediumBronze with granite plinth

ClassificationsSculptures

LocationOn Display - St Nicholas Centre

Object numberABDCC001084

Keywords

Sun & Moon

About MeLocated in the St Nicholas Shopping Centre in the public exterior plaza on the upper level this abstract sculpture comprises a rectangular bronze table through which a cresent moon is inserted so that it seems suspended through the table surface.

Along with works by Gavin Scobie and Paul Mason it was commissioned through the Aberdeen City Centre Development Scheme and unveiled by Lord Provost Henry E. Rae in October 1985.

Roland Piché was born in London in 1938 and trained at Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. His work was admired by Henry Moore, for whom he worked, by Francis Bacon and by Bryan Robertson who through the New Generation Exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery brought Piché's work to the attention of Marlborough Galleries, who then represented him.

Pichés work has always been complex and contradictory: American art, humanist European traditions, Egyptian art as well as oriental attitudes and philosophy have all contributed to his style.

Piché taught sculpture at Maidstone and Canterbury Colleges of Art but in 2003 he left teaching to concentrate on his work. That year he was commissioned by Lovells to make and present two large sculptures for their Paris headquarters. His proposal for the Ground Zero Monument project in Lower Manhattan, New York was subsequently exhibited at the Henry Moore Institute Leeds.

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Have you seen this sculpture outside Aberdeen’s own St Nicholas Shopping Centre? Piché’s style draws influence from American art, humanist European traditions, Egyptian art, oriental attitudes and philosophy.