Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers
.jpg)
Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers ( German rabbit on bell on Portland stone piers ) is the title of a sculpture by the Welsh sculptor Barry Flanagan (1941–2009). The work is made of bronze , measures 242.6 × 284.5 × 190.5 cm and dates from 1983.
description
The 880 kg bronze sculpture consists of a leaping hare, whose belly touches a bell that stands on three pillars made of Portland stone , limestone from the Isle of Portland .
In a depiction of the Minneapolis Sculpture Gardens , the statue is described as follows: An exuberant, leaping hare balances on a classically shaped bell, making an interesting study of contrasts. The curvy lines and playful liveliness of the hare counterbalance the elegant shape of the bell, which is reminiscent of centuries of bronze casting tradition. The novel juxtaposition of forms - both are symbols of fertility and both are frequent motifs in Flanagan's work - evokes unusual and fantastic associations .
Bunnies appeared in Barry Flanagan's drawings since the late 1970s and have been the main subject of his sculptural work since the 1980s; in combination with a bell, for example in his sculpture Leaping Hare on Crescent and Bell (1988).
Exhibitions
_-_plaque.jpg)
A total of five sculptures were made, three of which can be seen publicly. One of the sculptures was first shown in the Groups VII exhibition at London's Waddington Galleries in January 1984. In 1985 it was part of the Dialog exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm .
In 1987 another sculpture was donated to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is a four and a half acre sculpture garden in Minneapolis located near the Walker Art Center that opened on September 10, 1988. In 2004 it was bought by a private collector from Los Angeles and has been in the Armenian Gerard Cafesjian Collection since 2005 and is exhibited in the Armenian capital Yerevan .
A series of stairs called the cascade connects downtown Yerevan with the central archive for Armenian manuscripts, the Matenadaran . There are sculptures on both sides of Tamanjan Street up to the area with the cascade. Works by Mark Atoi , Fernando Botero , Guy Buseyne , John Clive, Saraj Guha , Tom Hill, Christopher Hiltey , Ji Yong-Ho , Robert Indiana , Jaume Plensa , Joana Vasconcelos and Peter Woytuk are exhibited in this sculpture garden . Barry Flanagan's statues Acrobats (created 1988), Gendrd I (1994), Gendrd II (1994), Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers and Large boxing hare on Anvil (1984) are located there.
In the meantime, one of the sculptures was on display in the Two Pataphysicians exhibition at Waddington Custot Galleries in London, an exhibition in 2014 about the influence of Alfred Jarry on Flannagan and Joan Miró , a sculpture in the 2016 exhibition Stories in Sculpture: Selections from the Walker Art Center Collection at the Botanical Gardens in Cheesman Park in Denver .
One sculpture stands in front of the AXA Center in New York City , one in the courtyard of the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg, Austria .
Web links
- Entry on barryflanagan.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page about the sculpture on walkerart.org (English)
- ↑ Barry Flanagan on the website of the Cafesjian Center for Arts (English)
- ↑ Page to the exhibition Two Pataphysicians (English)
- ↑ Stories in Sculpture: Selections from the Walker Art Center Collection (English)
- ^ Walter Lustig: Two Points of View. Current exhibitions at the Essl Museum curated by the founders (English)