« All of Cehes' work is a shrewd construction of cruelty and beauty, at its peak when in marble or bronze, as it takes it to the subtle truth of the unbearable… Splendor of the bone frameworks freed from their numbers where Aphrodite chests are impaled and the torn corolla of sexes are ripped. Bites of an art without shadow or remorse, seeking the origins of culture… »
PAULE GAUTHIER. Excerpt from CIMAISE review n°146.1980
« Let us close our eyes, not in fear but to search our memory for illustrious echoes to Cehes' works through out art history. Here the famous Transi by Ligier Richier offering God the heart torn from his chest; the Vanités by Valdès Léal; Domenico Fiorentino's skeletons, the bones planted in the beaches of Tangy… »
PIERRE MAZARS.LE FIGARO.1980
« Marbles of striking truth… An awe-inspiring ensemble. »
PIERRE CABANNE.LE MATIN DE PARIS.1980
« … Here we go beyond derision. The rage of an absolute starkness beating unrelentingly on the chosen pieces of human remains »
JEAN-MARIE DUNOYER.LE MONDE.1980
« …Claude Cehes feeds on another kind of human experience, that of ,which Claudel's Cébés testifies: aversion for a stale world, feeling of loneliness before the other ever beyond reach, anguish in the face of the fragility of things»
JEAN-LUC CHALUMEAU.Revue OPUS n°85.1982
« Masses of allusions occupy the chiseled stone with delight, smooth and weightless. And there, fantasies play leapfrog between the marble lips. It is new and so fresh that is surprises and unsettles… »
JEAN-MARIE TASSET. LE FIGARO.1982
