The Stolen Memory of the Sculpture Cemetery of the Sampelets

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For more than thirty years, several monumental sculptures have rested in Vissoie, in a pasture isolated from the Val d'Anniviers. Today, they have disappeared without leaving any traces. Back to a riddle that also questions the fate of large-scale works of art after their exhibitionThe story is worthy of a polar. How can monumental sculptures disappear overnight? In 1990, two renowned artists - the Vaudois Olivier Estoppey and the Neuchâtelois D…