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Barbara Pijnappel
Abstract Contrasts
Material: black granite, India
Sizes: :
- heigth: 49 cm
- width: 26 cm
- depth: 17 cm
- weight: 25 kg
Price: upon request
Made in: Azzano, Italiƫ & Wenum autumn 2018
Notes: Granite is a deep rock. With this high relief, I chose to create this sculpture completely intuitively, despite the hardness of the material and the work with the machine, and to create contrasts in it to see its influence in the material. In this way a part with lines, ending in a point, was created. I polished some to reveal the smooth stone, and left some untouched to reveal the raw material. I thought the drill holes that can be seen at the bottom are nice to leave in it for the expression of the sculpture, as a kind of gates.
During the making, the sculpture kept changing shape. It has an upward flow through the tip and the lines running to the tip. The smooth polished shape attracts attention first and is central to the image, it is transverse to the shape behind. Yet both shapes stem from the bottom raw shape. They cannot live without each other and have a contrasting relationship with each other. The back is hollow to make it less heavy hanging at the wall.