Visual Elements: The artwork features a striking monochromatic color scheme, with the predominant use of a silvery-gray hue that creates a sense of ethereal, sculptural elegance. The overall composition is characterized by a twisted, spiral form that culminates in a circular glass dome, reminiscent of a futuristic space helmet.
Subject Matter: The central element of the artwork is a disembodied human face enclosed within the glass dome, evoking a sense of both familiarity and detachment from the human form.
Artistic Style and Technique: The artist employs a distinctive sculptural technique, utilizing a highly textured, twisted surface that suggests a sense of movement and fluidity, juxtaposed with the geometric, glass-enclosed element.
Context: This artwork may explore themes of technology, humanity, and the human condition, inviting the viewer to ponder the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical, the organic and the artificial. ...
Jean-Marie Appriou imagines speculative futures and utopian worlds by constructing vast and imposing yet intricate and technically impressive sculptures from an array of materials including bronze, glass, aluminium, wax and clay. As if they are figments plucked from fantastical dreams, the works and worlds Appriou conjurs include beings loaded with symbolism. From snakes and huge horse heads to seahorses and sharks, Appriou’s cast of protagonists is mystical and mythical. He combines these beings with representations of Japanese Ama divers, beekeepers and crop gatherers, who symbolise discovery, germination and new life. By summoning future visions with creatures taken from myth and legend, Appriou combines past, future and imagined, weaving new narratives that transcend time, truth and terrain.
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C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...
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