for the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome

Commission of the European Communities Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium

“The Commission was especially touched by such a gesture of sympathy coming as it does from and American artist working in the very city in which the Treaty was signed”.

A bronze sculpture for Europe’s integration

Notwithstanding the difficult theme and communication mean, sculptor John Vassar House managed to express all the ideals and the “philosophy” of the European Community creating a structural form with rapid circulatory movement, where the Common European Market (MEC) partners connect as essential and converging components, with a common, already intuitive, centrifugal strength, indicated and auspicated goal for the economic, political and social integration. 

Terra e Vita il raccolto 22-28 March 1980 by N.F. translation by MH.

According to sculptor John Vassar House, the wedges represent the MEC partner countries as part of circuit with an upgrading insertion movement of the new coming European partners into a larger picture. The texture of the wedges represents the cultural characterization of each partner country. 

Sculptor John Vassar House preliminary sketches for the European Common Market sculpture