Keep your balance: contemporary sculpture by Christopher Townsend

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

How to bring stability to our volatile world? All of us will benefit from the ability to find a middle ground and keep balance. This is evidenced by the modern sculpture by Christopher Townsend. People who are frozen in various uncomfortable positions, people who support each other (in the literal sense: by the arms and legs), have perfectly mastered a useful skill.

British sculptor Christopher Townsend for 15 years as a certified specialist. At the university, he studied not only fine arts, but also psychology. Therefore, he knows how to professionally analyze the inner world of a person and depict it in modern sculpture. The author admits that his worldview and style were influenced by the work of Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gaudi and many, many other masters of the past century. The sculptor is most interested in line, form and balance. The latter was facilitated by the fact that the Briton was engaged in Chinese gymnastics tai chi and kickboxing, so he knows firsthand how important it is to keep balance so as not to be knocked out.

1) himself a dancerThe dancing men of Christopher Townsend resemble the cipher from the story of the same name by his compatriot, Arthur Conan Doyle. What do these figures mean? Joy and high spirits.

2. Kinks in the fieldIt is difficult to freeze motionless, bending into three deaths. But who is not familiar with such life situations! One wrong move - and the position that a person has been trying to achieve for so long cannot be restored.

3. Upside downIt is not very convenient to live in a world where everything is upside down. But the ability to turn the situation upside down is sometimes very valuable.

4. Hope and support “My friend is my third shoulder,” was sung in a famous song. People who are confident in the support of loved ones easily succeed in even the most intricate pirouettes.

5. Human pyramidSociety is an extremely complex system. Someone climbed to the very top of the structure of woven figures, and the whole pyramid is held on to someone. Who is in charge here, you will not immediately understand.

In order to create such intricately curved structures, the sculptor needs the appropriate materials - mainly low-carbon steel and stainless steel. But at times, the master does not disdain and not bendable stone and wood.