Allen Horstmanshof - Sculptor
Artist's Comment:
Artist's Comment:
Contact email: allenho@spot.com.au
Other recent Sculptures:
2. Yeahright
5. Movie Image - a design for a film set
6. Ken's Harlequin - a collegiate venture with another artist
Works in progress
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The concept for a 2.4 m high sculpture for Swell Sculpture Show
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The half finished armature for the Bull element of the sculpture
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Bull maquette
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A variation on the same theme
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Comment: This work deliberately sets up a paradoxical visual dialogue between two icons of Eastern and Western cultures. The initial simple idea behind this work has evolved into a complex, layered narrative that draws on the calm, reflective nature of ancient Eastern spiritualism, with vague echoes of the Buddhist Parable of the Ox, and sets that up against the rampant raw energy of the Western market driven bull. This narrative continues as we see these two ideals merging in the new East.
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