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South Africa
Sculpture, Found Objects on Steel
Size: 9.1 W x 19.5 H x 7.5 D in
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Objects used: Moulin-Legumes food mill, egg separator, chalk line reel, pizza cutter disk, icing piping nozzle, Eclipse piercing saw frame, trigger lobster clasp, brass lamp-holder component, copper wire, wood, enamel paint. This assemblage is based on one of the Muses that punished the singer Thamyris by depriving him of his voice, his memory, and his skill in playing his instrument. Muse ΜΝΗΜΗΝ represents Memory. In the invocation of the Muses at the outset of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships the poet describes how the Muses are always present when things occur and so know everything, as opposed to the singer, whose knowledge is wholly reliant on the Muses sharing their recollections. The Muse is represented by means of a food mill, an egg separator, a chalk line reel and a depiction of a circular labyrinth found on ancient Greek ‘Knossos’ coins. ΜΝΗΜΗΝ serves here as an epithet of this Muse and refers to a remembrance, a record, a monument, an epitaph, a reference to something, or a power of the mind. This work forms part of a series of nine sculptures entitled "Powell's Patterns 2, 11, 20, 25", which is a sculptural exploration of four contingents from the list of combatants in Homer’s Iliad. Superficially, the only link between these four catalogue entries are structural similarities first identified by the scholar Barry Powell. The sculptural series explores thematic links between these entries.
Sculpture:Found Objects on Steel
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:9.1 W x 19.5 H x 7.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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:South Africa.
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South Africa
The only artist on the planet who explores the compositional methods of ancient Greek poets through the medium of contemporary sculptural assemblage. Unique, obscure, and totally off-trend. In literary translation the content of oral-formulaic poetry is often more effectively conveyed than its form. The sculptural assemblages on this page serve as a visualization or ‘aesthetic translation’ of the formal artistry of two ancient Greek epics – Iliad and the Odyssey. The result is a visual exploration of correlations between what the poems say and how they say it. Each individual sculpture functions as a personification of a character from the Homeric epics. Each set of sculptures represents a ‘composite object portrait’ that depicts Homer not as a person, but as a continually adaptive constructive system.
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