This unique sculpture powerfully and boldly evokes the ancient hero's momentum in an almost anecdotal fragment: a foot. But what a foot! Firmly shod, proudly set, it bears the traces of a glorious past. The terracotta work reveals the artist's hand, between expressive roughness and precise details—notably the finely knotted sandal and the high-relief profile of a face sculpted on the leg, reminiscent of the figure of Alexander.
Like an archaeological relic recomposed by the imagination, the work challenges. Is it a relic or an invention? Here, the foot becomes a symbol of conquest, of progress, of rooting in history and in matter.
Arestakes creates an enigmatic piece, imbued with memory and brute force.
