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Sculpture 2: DANCE, 2021-2022

Fired clay, painted with cobalt oxide before the second firing

Height 23.5 cm

 

The modelling was executed mainly with my fingers. Towards the top, modelling tools were also applied. All my sculptures were modelled in the round

This sculpture, like in particular Sculptures 3: Spring and Sculpture 4: Growing, were modelled in the round which means that one form flows into the other as you rotate the work.

Each side is different, and the sculpture can only be fully understood by moving around it.

The inspiration for this approach, in which a sculpture has no clear front, back and side views, is the so-called type of the figura serpentinata, an approach to free standing sculpture developed in the16th and early 17centuries in Italy.

One of the most famous examples of this style is the beautiful marble group of Apollo and Daphne, 1620-25 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.  

  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne_(Bernini)]

 

The photographs were taken moving the sculpture in a clockwise rotation.

 

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All images © 2022 Helga Joergens

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