Matt Johnson
Malus Sieversii, 2008
Carved maple and acrylic paint
7 x 7 x 7 cm
2 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 ins
2 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 ins
AP 2/2 from an Edition of 3
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Stone Ear is part of a discrete series of unique, hand-carved granite sculpture, modeled after generic plaster casts now generations removed from Michelangelo's David (1501-04). Recalling the Colossus of Constantine...
Stone Ear is part of a discrete series of unique, hand-carved granite sculpture, modeled after generic plaster casts now generations removed from Michelangelo's David (1501-04). Recalling the Colossus of Constantine (c. 280-337), which was dismembered and re-grouped piecemeal over millennia in Rome, Johnson’s fragments consisting of rough hunks of granite are immediately forlorn and relatable.