Located in a small park, along the shore of the picturesque Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, Mélancolie is an unusual sculpture created by Albert Gyorgy, representing the huge void created by grief, a burden which is too heavy to carry.

The sculpture, made of bronze, depicts a figure sitting on a bench slumped over, due to the burden of grief, with a giant hole, signifying a feeling of massive emptiness in the soul, created between his bent head and the hands, resting on his knees. The aptly named sculpture has been acclaimed by many for the exact portrayal of the pathetic and emotional feeling that engulf the soul after the death of some near and dear one, which is difficult to express in words. It is believed that the artist, Albert Gyorgy created the thoughtful piece of artwork as a way to cope the feeling of intense sadness and isolation after the untimely death of his wife due to breast cancer.

The experience of emotional feelings is relative to each individual with unique meaning to each person, which are sometimes difficult, if not impossible, to describe in words.

Artist Albert Gyorgy has captured the raw emptiness that sadness can create in one of his simple sculptures called Mélancolie, which stands for Melancholy, every part of which screams sadness, grief, emptiness. The sculpture, depicting a towering abstract figure slumped over in the hollowness of grief. While the head of the figure is sunken down and its arms crossed in an attempt to comfort the void in its chest, its feet are solemnly spread with its slumped shoulders. The simple sculpture, powerfully displaying a negative emotion of life, creates a deep impact on the onlookers.

Albert Gyorgy, the creator of Mélancolie, was born in 1949 in Lueta, Romania, a region in Transylvania with a Hungarian minority. After completing his studies in Bucharest, he returned to Transylvania in 1973, and started a foundry in Satu-Mare, where sufficient quantity of bronze was available to serve his purpose.

However, after the death of his wife, he moved to Switzerland in 1987, as he no longer had any ties with Romania, and started another foundry in St-Cierges, which was later moved to an old village mill in Ogens in 1997. In this second slope of his life, he had space for art courses and for a permanent exhibition of his bronze sculptures. His visionary art testifies to a personal dialectic between suffering and happiness. His work Mélancolie was made sometime between 2013 and 2014, which is almost similar to a 1985 bronze work, titled Mélancolie II.