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Carving No.5
Carving No.5 belongs to a series of stone carvings from the early 1980s that Barry 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.
Image: © Estate of Barry Flanagan. All Rights Reserved 2024/Bridgeman Images/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 29405
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of DWT, 17/6/2009
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Height
(cm): 26
Width
(cm): 73
Depth
(cm): 51
Techniques
carved (decoration)
decoration
Applied Art
Material
marble
Location
Currently on loan
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