Large Nijinsky Hare on Anvil Point

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Large Nijinsky Hare on Anvil Point (Barry Flanagan, 2001; O'Connell Bridge , Dublin 2006)

Large Nijinsky Hare on Anvil Point ( German  Big Nijinsky hare on anvil tip ) is the title of a sculpture by British sculptor Barry Flanagan (1941-2009). The work is made of bronze , measures 700 × 338 × 200 cm and dates from 2001.

description

A hare is dancing on the tip of an oversized anvil that is tilted lengthways . The figure has the shape of an abstract, human-looking body with long rabbit paws and ears. The hare is balancing the tip of its right hind paw on the anvil needle. His right foreleg, which looks more like a human arm, is stretched straight in the air, while his left is angled behind his body; the left hind leg is raised to jump. The sweeping spoons are at right angles to movement and spread to the sides.

The title contains the name of the Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky , in whose role the hare - according to one interpretation - performs “a dance overcoming gravity at a great height”: “The proportions of the hare and anvil are shifted and their monumentality negates the relation to reality . The anvil, on which the hare performs its far-reaching dance, points to the handcraft origin of the bronze casting . "

Bunnies have appeared in Barry Flanagan's drawings since the late 1970s and have been the main subject of his sculptural work since the 1980s. The dancing bunnies Nijinsky had Flanagan as early as 1992 Large Mirror Nijinsky (dt. Large mirror Nijinsky ) designed in bronze and two hares in the same posture , each on a sharp pole balancing, which as seen in a mutual mirror and give the impression as if they wanted to box.

Exhibitions

The Large Nijinsky Hare on Anvil Point is set up in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Great Britain and was part of temporary outdoor sculpture exhibitions, for example in 2007 at Blickachsen 6 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . 2006 was the sculpture part of a hare ensembles by Barry Flanagan, with the Hugh Lane Gallery , the O'Connell Street lined in Dublin, and stood on O'Connell Bridge. The large Nijinsky hare is sold in a small format as a bronze series in the art trade.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Barry Flanagan at: Blickachsen 6 (Galerie Scheffel 2011)
  2. ↑ Barry Flanagan: Large Nijinski Hare on Anvil Point , Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  3. ↑ Line of sight 6
  4. ^ Large Hare Nijinsky on Anvil Point , Dublin 2006