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ELF # 2 Sculpture
Italy
Sculpture, Mixed media on Other
Size: 16 W x 70 H x 16 D in
Ships in a Crate
About The Artwork
The Elves use to come to the Earth walking through the space-time wormholes; a wormhole, or Einstein-Rosen bridge, is a hypothetical shortcut connecting two separate points in space-time, in particular different universes or dimensions; ambivalent beings, the elves can help or afflict humans. The sculptures of the Elves were thought by the artist after “visiting” on the Internet the ancient African Mursi and Surma tribes that live in the Lower Omo Valley and around Lake Turkana, whose tiny-sized painted bodies, beautifully decorated with head ornaments from leaves, branches, seedpods, fruit and so on, recall the Elves of the north European folklore, the mythical creatures most beloved by the artist in her childhood. The framework of the sculpture consists of a wooden skeleton around which the figure has been fashioned using paper-mache; the eyes show a white spiral iris made of sailing ropes and a pupil made of hard-stones; a bundle of plastered tropical leaves wrapped up together with iron wire frames the face, finally sticking out from behind the head like a panache; the face shows the lower lip plate usually worn by the Mursi and Surma married women; the figure is sitting in a squat on a high tree fork that sticks out from a concrete base; finally the whole sculpture has been painted and bright varnished. Look for more pictures of this artwork in the Gallery section of my website: www.bezec-lu.com
Details & Dimensions
Sculpture:Mixed media on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16 W x 70 H x 16 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Shipping & Returns
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Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Italy.
Customs:Shipments from Italy may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
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My name is Luciana Chiusole, but I have also an artist’s name, Bezec, that was my father’s nickname. I have always been seeing in Nature, particularly in the logs, roots and branches of cut off trees, peculiar “forms” – often originated from my reading and traveling experiences – that I try to bring about making up the roots with clay, paper mache and other, to get the shape I have “seen” and eventually painting and varnishing it. Among my recent works, the “Mannequins” series has evolved from this approach, originated from reading about the ancient mythologies when I started “dreaming” of some roots and branches, I had found somewhere, as the distinctive features of a specific “God” or “Goddess” I had learned of. For more information about me and my works, please visit my web site: http://www.bezec-lu.com
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