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Olympic Truce
Rosa Serra2001
The Olympic Museum
Lausanne, Switzerland
Details
- Title: Olympic Truce
- Creator Lifespan: 19 September 1944
- Creator Nationality: Spanish
- Creator Gender: Female
- Creator Birth Place: Vic, Spain
- Date Created: 2001
- Location Created: Spain
- Sculptor: Rosa Serra
- Physical Dimensions: w650 x h1800 x d460 cm (Complete)
- Description: Caption: Olympic Truce: Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic Ideal.
- Collection information: Irwin Belk, who is a businessman and a philanthropist from Charlotte, North Carolina, commissioned Rosa Serra to produce this work. It was exhibited and given to the United Nations. But the UN lacked the space to display it, so offered it to the IOC (with the agreement of Irwin Beck). A replica of the work exists in the offices of the United States Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs.
- Artistic school or movement: Rosa Serra began her artistic studies in 1970 at painter Lluis Carbonell’s academy. In 1972, she entered the Olot Art School and learned to work in clay at the studio of the famous Olot sculptor, Lluis Curos. From that time onwards, mud and clay opened up a new horizon for her and sculpture became her major artistic activity. From the outset, Rosa Serra has had a special liking for sporting themes. The sculpture of Rosa Serra, which was influenced by Rodin, Manolo Hugué and especially Henry Moore, centres on the human figure, which she represents in a very simplified - and sometimes deformed - fashion, in an abstract expressionist style. She has taken part in various biennales, exhibiting works in relation with sport: in 1976, she won a first prize for her sculpture “Wrestling” at the “Art-Sport 76” Biennial in Bilbao.
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: International Olympic Committee, 2003, ©IOC/G.Peter
- Medium: Patined bronze sculpture
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