Video: Is it okay that I have my back to you? Strange sculptures by Simon Schubert
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
With a talented German creator named Simon Schubert from readers Culturology.ru there was an opportunity to get acquainted some time ago, in a publication about paper paintings-installations. However, these are not the only creative "tricks" that this author is capable of. Apart from paper installations, Simon is a great master of unusual, more precisely, strange sculptures. They look completely normal - like real people. But go and understand why these people always have their backs to us, and why they hide their faces behind their hair … Numerous exhibitions and festivals, both personal and collective, a mass of awards and interviews, articles and TV programs behind this master. Of course, everyone is interested in getting an answer to this question - why are the sculptures so categorical and mysterious - and, perhaps, this is a manifestation of some complexes and fears of the author himself? But in response, Simon Schubert only smiles enigmatically. That still cat Cheshire …
To admit, despite the fact that Schubert's sculptures mostly depict children - cute, tidy girls in neat dresses and with carefully combed hair, and the same lovely, well-combed young ladies sitting in armchairs or standing in front of a mirror, the absence of faces, or rather, hiding behind a shock of long hair, reminiscent of horror films like "The Scream" or "The Ring". Just look, hellish pupils gleam behind the hair, the sky will open - well, something unexpectedly terrible will happen. Not a very happy prospect … But the work is good, high-quality, talented. This cannot be taken away from Simon Schubert.
The series of "faceless" sculptures by this author is very large and varied. You can admire these and other works by Schubert on his website.
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