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South Africa
Sculpture, Found Objects on Plastic
Size: 17 W x 21 H x 10 D in
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Objects used: fishing buoy, cast iron three-legged pot, Jaffle toaster mould plate, outside spring callipers, rotary saw blade, cork pull, pickle fork, lemon juicer, wood, enamel paint. Herakles ΑΘΑΝΑΤΑΙ is a depiction of the most infamous of ancient Greek heroes as a notoriously deadly dinner host and guest. Hence the use of a double lever corkscrew, fork, lemon squeezer and cooking pot. Herales' status as a both human and divine is suggested by the separation of the sphere into two halves by means of a rotary saw blade. The blade also refers to the mane of the Nemean lion used by Herakles as a cloak. ΑΘΑΝΑΤΑΙ serves here as an epithet of Herakles and refers to immortality. This work forms part of a series of nine sculptures entitled "Powell's Patterns 2, 11, 20, 25", which is a sculptural exploration of four contingents from the list of combatants in Homer’s Iliad. Superficially, the only link between these four catalogue entries are structural similarities first identified by the scholar Barry Powell. The sculptural series explores thematic links between these entries. For a view in the round see the video on my Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2jjdoBqJl_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Original Created:2018
Subjects:Classical mythology
Materials:PlasticIronStainless SteelWood
Mediums:Found ObjectsWoodPaint
Sculpture:Found Objects on Plastic
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:17 W x 21 H x 10 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:South Africa.
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South Africa
The only artist on the planet who explores the compositional methods of ancient Greek poets through the medium of contemporary sculptural assemblage. Unique, obscure, and totally off-trend. In literary translation the content of oral-formulaic poetry is often more effectively conveyed than its form. The sculptural assemblages on this page serve as a visualization or ‘aesthetic translation’ of the formal artistry of two ancient Greek epics – Iliad and the Odyssey. The result is a visual exploration of correlations between what the poems say and how they say it. Each individual sculpture functions as a personification of a character from the Homeric epics. Each set of sculptures represents a ‘composite object portrait’ that depicts Homer not as a person, but as a continually adaptive constructive system.
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