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Carving No.5
Artist: FLANAGAN, Barry
Carving No.5 belongs to a series of stone carvings from the early 1980s that Flanagan made in association with craftspeople at Pietrasanta in Italy. He made maquettes by squeezing clay in his hands. These were then scaled up and copied in marble by Italian carvers who retained the features and finger-marks of the original clay model. By carving stone to look like modelled clay Flanagan is making a sculptural joke that seems to reference an enduring debate in modernist sculpture - the relative merits of carving and modelling.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 29405
Creation/Production
FLANAGAN, Barry
Role: Creation
Date: 1982 –
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of DWT, 17/6/2009
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Height: 26cm
Width: 73cm
Depth: 51cm
Techniques
carved (decoration)
decoration
Applied Art
Material
marble
Location
In store
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