Relation - 1968

Metal, wood, and electric motor
252 cm
Signed, located, dated, and titled inside the base: Paris 1968

Provenance:
Galerie Denise René, Paris
Robert Rousseau collection
A.C.E.C. Collection, Marcinelle (1970 - 1988)
Galerie Dewindt, Brussels
Private collection, Brussels (1990)

Published:
Robert Rousseau, Œuvres d'art contemporain acquises par ACEC et exposées dans les nouveaux bureaux de direction générale, s.l., s.d., cat.28 (ill.)

For the new central offices of the executive directors of A.C.E.C. (Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi) in Marcinelle an art collection was started in the early 1970s that had to reflect the company's business and the image it wanted to project. It was almost obvious that kinetic art was often chosen to embellish these work surroundings and especially the public spaces where visitors were received.
Robert Rousseau, the former director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Charleroi was pivotal in the selection of works that entered the collection. This monumental sculpture by Hugo Demarco was acquired by Rousseau from Galerie Denise René in 1968 and entered the collection of A.C.E.C. in 1970. In pictures from the period we can see it standing in the ground-floor reception hall. On the base, we still find the inventory number "28" of this collection that was sadly dispersed in 1989 after the company had been dissolved.