Pierre
Bataille
is
the
sculptor
who
has
dared
to "transcribe "on wooden
panels
the
whole
of " the
Bayeux
Tapestry ".
The
media,
the
press,
the
TV's,
have
all
hailed
the
courage,
the uniqueness and
the quality
of this
Undertaking which
enables
the blind
to "Discover" the
famous
masterpiece
of the
Xlth century.
Pierre
Bataille
has
then
passionately
drawn
and
carved
a series of low-relief panels depicting the heroic
enterprises
of
Jacques
Cartier
,
of
the
Pilgrim
Fathers
and
the
Mayflower.
There
is only
the shortest
of short
steps from
wood to
stone,
and Pierre
Bataille
has taken
that step
when he restored the two large statues of the French
National
Assembly,
and then
moved on to modern
statues
using iron
and resin.
The
international
character
of his
achievements
has enabled
Pierre Bataille to represent one aspect
of French art in
numerous exhibitions abroad notably in Norway ,
Great Britain,
Germany
or the U.S.A.
where the city of Detroit
offered
him to
take part
in a competition
for a statue
of its
founder,
Cadillac.