NOBLE, COUNTESS and COUNT

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The Crane is considered a beautiful bird and usually is associated with quite positive ideas.

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In Greece the Crane is considered the Sun Bird of the God Apollo, that brings the Spring and the light, “…and when the god visited in the human world he wore the image of the Crane”. In Japan, it is known as the bird of happiness nicknamed the “Respected Gentleman”. In China he is considered “the father of the tribe of the feathers” and in Central Asia the Crane is considered the holy bird and the symbol of loyalty in marriage. The Courting Dance of the Cranes is interpreted as an expression of “love of life”.

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This exhibition includes three giant Cranes, that look familiar only for a moment , however the impression that you are left with is that they were taken from another world.

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The lines of the Cranes are soft, rounded and defined. At the same time they all have different characteristics which sets them apart. They underwent “cutting” in certain areas that create a contrast between curved and straight lines, between placid and dramatic.

 

In this work there is a feeling of strangeness, a sense of tension. The work creates a type of  mutation that passed a transformation: A kind of hybrid that still has the familiar lines of the bird we know, while at the same time possesses something  strange, different,  unnatural, perhaps even an imaginary creature taken from a legend or from the world of science fiction. A kind of Grotesque fantasy caricature.

 

The choice of artificial and industrial materials, for example colors used for cars and plastic, intensify  the sense of the strangeness and foreign feeling of the images.  These materials create contrasts not only in the context of terms like “natural” and “organic” materials, but also in regard to traditional materials such as marble, bronze and wood which are usually used in classical sculpture. In this respect, the sculpture is somewhere between the past and the future. It flaps its wings in its journey from the figurative sculpture to the industrialized estranged world of the here and now that we live in.

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Technique: Fiberglass casting, Industrial paint

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Height:

Duke: 290 cm.

Countess: 260 cm.

Noble: 210 cm.