Video: Sorrow on pointe: marble sculpture by Kevin Francis Gray
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Creativity of a contemporary British sculptor Kevin Francis Gray often arouses heated discussions about what is the true vocation of art: should it give aesthetic pleasure or it is quite possible to do with the creation of eerie, but memorable images. Whatever it was, but the talented master once again managed to surprise the viewer. His new job is sculpture "Ballerina and a Boy") - has become another riddle, which (if desired) you can try to solve.
Faceless statues are a traditional phenomenon in the work of Kevin Francis Gray. Suffice it to recall his otherworldly sculptures, which we have already written about on the site Kulturologiya. Ru, to be convinced of the artist's predilection for depicting people without a face. This time it is a ballerina who, standing on pointe shoes, holds the lifeless body of a boy on her shoulder.
The sculpture, made of white Carrara marble, will be on display at the Pace gallery in London from 21 November to 25 January. Art critics note that the composition is a modern drink, drawing a parallel with the image of the Mother of God with the dead Christ. A canvas is “thrown” over the figures, which can be interpreted both as a shroud (one of the main Christian relics accompanying the funeral ritual), and as a metaphorical embodiment of the secret hidden by the sculptor from the viewer.
Kevin Francis Gray managed to show the titanic struggle that takes place in the soul of a ballerina. It is an impressive symbiosis of physical anguish with mental despair. The dance becomes secondary for the sculptor, it is only a way to convey the deepest longing.
The beauty and grace of sculpture, bordering on almost physically felt pain, make this work of Kevin Francis Gray special among his other sculptures.
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