Narcissus Sculpture

The sculpture titled, "Narcissus" is best described by the critique provided by Professor Trotta, Turin Italy as follows: "The haunting, timeless, elegiac and 'mythically' symbolic and iconic (semiotic) vision of the figuration is, however, better reflected in William’s sculptural work that reveals a clearly-manifested metaphorical journey. I refer predominantly to bodies - or rather fragments or sections of human bodies - seen as headless or archaeological finds of the future. A post-modern vision that reuses the classic tradition and innovates it, where the conceptual and 'ethical' components of art no longer disown the 'aesthetic' value, as in the twentieth century avant-gardes. Male and female headless and limbless torsos (Twiggie III, p. ; Miss Maple, p. ; Bombshell, p. ) or life-size figures – lying down or looking-on – are presented with featureless faces, like fashion mannequins or like De Chirico’s and Annigoni’s metaphysical figures. They are not painted but modeled in their three-dimensionality and then dressed with a new 'skin' made of American or Canadian coins. They are mysterious, statuesque and mighty as if from antiquity or with their simplifications, from pre-war twentieth century classicism. However they also - and above all - ironically refer to today’s fashion and film role models and the obsession with beauty. Their iron 'armor' makes them also seem like underwater archeological finds (Aphrodite, p. ; Zeus, p. ; Narcissus, p. and Mia, p. ), bronze young warriors of Riace, heroes and Greek Olympian deities. Yet they are brought into the contemporary world and ‘encrusted’ with modernity, being linked to the perverse logic of the economy and to salaries, the obsession of consumerism, of the GDP and the spread. Sculptures that also recuperate the neo-Dadaist realism of everyday objects - coins to bargain, buy and sell – following the traditions of the European Nouveau Réalisme (in particular Arman and Yves Klein), as well as American Pop Art. Sculptures with a metal skin - like reptiles in a futuristic sci-fi world of Visitors - recall genetic mutations and the ambiguity and identity of contemporary man. A very personal research that starts from a certain view of the world and life, based on the comparison of free will with the predestination of events and the consequential risk of reducing man to a mere automaton, a biological computer in a globalized world.

Sculpture:Metal on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:57 W x 35 H x 30 D in

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