A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling

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Temporary version of the sculpture on display in St. Mary Ax , London

A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling is a bronze sculpture by Angus Fairhurst from the year 2000. It is 210 cm high, 173 cm wide and 132 cm deep. The sculpture is on permanent display at Waddesdon Manor Castle in Buckinghamshire , England.

A bronze gorilla over two meters tall stands upright on two legs and carries a huge fish under its right arm. The gorilla's gaze is fixed and expressionless into the distance.

A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling is a full sculpture with a frontal main view. There are three editions of this sculpture in this size.

A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling is also available in a smaller version (31 × 26 × 20 cm), also made in 2000. This was exhibited together with other small bronze sculptures (such as: Untitled 2007 or I'm sorry, and I Won't Do it Again 2004) by Fairhurst, which also depict the gorilla motif.

Angus Fairhurst produced four other bronze sculptures with a similar work title. This includes A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling II and A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling (Flattened) .

A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling II

A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling II was created in 2003 and was first shown in the 2004 exhibition In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida at the Tate Gallery . The work shows a life-size bronze gorilla standing in a four-legged pose on legs and right arm and staring blankly at his left arm, which lies in front of him, separated from his body, on the floor.

The bronze sculpture A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling II is 165 cm high, 140 cm wide and 105 cm deep. His arm measures 31 × 120 × 67 cm. In 2002 a smaller version was created with the dimensions 25.5 × 17 × 33.5 cm (arm: 10 × 6.75 × 13.25 cm).

The coherence between drawings and sculptures by Angus Fairhurst

Little art historical literature exists on the works of Angus Fairhurst . There is a strong thematic similarity between Fairhurst's sculptures and his drawings, often cartoons made in the 1990s.

The drawings were exhibited in 1994 in Sarah Lucas' then London apartment.

The drawings, which were often made on A4-sized paper, are autonomous works of art and were not used as draft drawings for the later sculptures. They often show ideas that were carried forward in the sculptures, such as the drawing Untitled from 1994, which shows a gorilla on four legs staring at a glove in a gorilla costume lying on the floor. A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling II shows a modified version of this motif, in that the gorilla stares at his own severed arm instead of just a gorilla's costume glove.

Fairhurst plays with the different materials in his art.

literature

  • The Angus Fairhurst Foundation. Catalog for the exhibition from February 21st to 21.3.1999 and in the Kunsthalle St. Gallen from 4.6. until 4 July 1999. Dziewior, Yilmaz (ed.). Kraichtal 1999.
  • In-A-Gadda-da-VidaI. Angus Fairhurst, Demien Hirst, Sarah Lucas. Catalog for the exhibition from 03.03. until May 31, 2004. Tate Publishing. London 2004. Muir, Gregor & Wallis, Clarrie (Eds.).
  • Craddock, Sacha: Angus Fairhurst. London 2009.
  • Angus Fairhurst. This Does Not Last More Then Ten Seconds. Exhibition catalog 06.04. until May 20, 2001. Kunsthalle St. Gallen 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Art and Architecture waddesdon.org.uk, accessed on August 14, 2016th
  2. ↑ humans.txt: Sadie Coles - Angus Fairhurst Estate. In: www.sadiecoles.com. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
  3. ^ Angus Fairhurst, 'A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling II' 2003. In: Tate. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ humans.txt: Sadie Coles - Angus Fairhurst Estate. In: www.sadiecoles.com. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
  5. ^ Angus Fairhurst, 'A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling II' 2003. In: Tate. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
  6. ↑ In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: About the artists: Angus Fairhurst tate.org.uk, accessed on August 14, 2016.
  7. ↑ humans.txt: Sadie Coles - Angus Fairhurst Estate. In: www.sadiecoles.com. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
  8. ^ Angus Fairhurst | Frieze 2014 | Regents Park | Sadie Coles HQ. In: www.sadiecoles.com. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
  9. ^ Angus Fairhurst. In: frieze.com. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
  10. ^ Craddock Sacha: Angus Fairhurst . London 2009.
  11. ^ The Foundation Angus Fairhurst . In: Dziewior Yilmaz (Ed.): Catalog for the exhibition from 21.2. to 21.3.1999 and in the Kunsthalle St. Gallen from 4.6. until 4 July 1999 . Kraichtal 1999.