This compact sculpture tempts its spectator to hold it in his or her hand. Its resemblance with the human skull generates a paradoxical proximity, emphasized further by its wrinkled surface—yet another reference to the ridges and grooves of fingertips, the skin, the bark of trees. Similar features characterize all sculptures of the series under the title Inner Spaces, which the sculptor initiated in 1957. The series comprises works that experiment with the energy of the wind and the centrifugal force it creates when infused into balloons. The sculptor used metal straps to tightly fasten the balloons, thus distorting their shape and causing air pressures, both inside the balloon and on its surface. The transformations of energy caused distortions in the shape and texture of the balloons, which were immobilized in time after their casting.
The final form of the sculpture features similarities and parallel functions with those of the brain. This work embodies one of the sculptor’s researches on the concept of energy and its impact on human creations.
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Χρονολογία: 1957
Υλικό: Μπρούντζος
Διαστάσεις: Diameter 20 cm
Αρ. Έργου: Π.4084
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