Life in Gold – Daniela Rothem Partouche - 2021
🔸 Series : Life
🔸 Technique : Sculpture - Newspaper, water, glue, clay, gold acrylic paint, glitter, resin
🔸 Dimensions : 22.5 x 19 cm
🔸 Weight: 1.950 kg
🔸 Price : €1,000
🔸 Unique original work – Certificate of authenticity provided
Life in Gold is an ode to inner richness, a sculpture that transforms ordinary matter into a symbol of resilience and light. From humble materials—newspaper, clay, and glue—Daniela Rothem Partouche creates a powerful, fleshy silhouette, enhanced with golden acrylic paint and glitter, all sealed beneath a dazzling resin.
Newspaper, a bearer of ephemeral and collective stories, blends with clay, a primordial material, to form a universal body, both vulnerable and majestic. Each fold, each curve captures the light and invites us to rethink our perceptions of beauty and value.
Message & Symbolism
Life in Gold is a deeply symbolic work. It tells of the human capacity to transform pain and memories into gold, to reveal the splendor hidden in the ordinary. The use of recycled materials underlines an ecological and philosophical vision: everything can be reinvented.
This seated figure, massive and serene, seems to carry the world within him. He invites contemplation, introspection, and the recognition that true wealth lies not in appearance, but in experience.
A work that shines, both literally and figuratively.
