Video: Statuephilia exhibition at the British Museum
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“The British Museum is a laboratory of opportunity for any creative mind. It is full of objects that pass through time and penetrate deep into us,”- these words belong to the sculptor Antony Gormley, who presents his work at the Statuephilia exhibition in the British Museum.
Statuephilia, which officially opened at the British Museum on October 4, 2008 and runs until January 25, this year, showcases the main works of five contemporary British artists - Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Ron Mueck, Marc Quinn, as well as the creative duo Tim Noble and Sue Webster. The organizers placed the sculptures of the masters in different rooms, choosing an ancient entourage for each.
The sculpture "Angel of the North" Antony Gormley, weighing 200 tons and a wingspan of 8.5 meters, greets visitors at the entrance. "Angel" is a kind of metaphor for the human ability to imagine and create.
Damien Hirst's works focus on themes such as death, the body, the connection between the spiritual and the worldly, between the rational and the irrational. His hobbies took pride of place in the Enlightenment Gallery, where 200 painted plastic skulls were neatly placed on 8 antique shelves.
Hyperrealist Ron Mueck exhibits his own sleeping self-portrait, called Mask II. According to art critics, the giant head symbolizes the vibrations between the real and the abstract world, between monumentality and intimacy, between the states of sleep and death.
For 15 years, the dark, witty and original work of Tim Noble and Sue Webster has raised issues of sexuality, personality, self-affirmation and taboo. Their work Dark Stuff is built on the play of contrasts and explores their relationship to life and the world, ugliness and beauty. Sculptors create their masterpieces, simply speaking, from rubbish, aluminum cans, mummified animal bodies, but nevertheless, despite such a composition, their the work simply mesmerizes the visitors.
The main exhibit is the sculpture "The Siren" (Marc Quinn), a 50-kilogram statue cast in gold. The statue depicting the model Kate Moss, named in the museum's press release "The Aphrodite of Our Time", is placed in the Nereid Hall next to the statues of famous ancient Greek goddesses.
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