Conflagration
gunpowder, acrylic, wood
100″x55″x48″

I know… animated gifs are annoying. Sorry, it just seemed like a fun way to show off a sculpture.

Once again, I have taken Giambologna’s “Rape of the Sabine” sculpture from Florence as my starting point. Pulling several images from the internet I have re-constructed pieces of it, offering a strange two-dimensional approach to representing a three-dimensional object. This is an attempt to realize the sculpture in a more South Western vocabulary based on billboards, windmills, oil derricks  and the general ubiquity of faded, weathered, and broken signage.

I particularly like the fragments of body parts as both abstractions, formal elements, and as stand-in’s for the entirety of the figure. The gunpowder burned pattern on the limbs is the same pattern I have used previously based on the decorative breach of a Winchester rifle.

I could probably say more, but why don’t I just leave you some pictures.

22 Jan This entry was published on January 22, 2013 at 9:36 pm. It’s filed under Art and tagged art, giambologna, oil derrick, rape of the sabine, ryder, sign, structure, windmill. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.