Nestor Sculpture

Nestor From: “Ulysses Cycle – 18 Olive Sculptures for Joyce“ PLEASE NOTE: NO SALE of the original in olive wood. SALE ONLY of 3-D-Prints or Bronze Casts after negotiation! The Wooden Sculptures Each olive sculpture is related to one episode of Ulysses, be it to Joyce’s text itself, be it to the Odyssey by Homer, which the Irish Modernist used to structure his texts – and also to one quotation selected from each of Joyce’s episodes. But the sculptural analogies are not limited to the depiction of narrative contents. Just as Joyce’s text is constituted by successions of linguistic elements (sentences, headlines, disjointed thoughts, exclamations, questions, quotations, etc.) so do the sculptures emerge from spatial elements such as, primarily, lines – the sentence equivalent –, but also from folds, gutters, cavings, planes, curves, turnings, volumes or cuttings, and, additionally, from grains, textures, coarsenesses (due to the deliberate abstention from grinding), characteristics of weathering and other wooden traits. To a large extent these are preserved also in casts such as in bronze. Xylotomic palimpsests: The meaning of the cycle Therefore, the unity of the “Ulysses Cycle – 18 Olive Sculptures for Joyce“ consists in the common material at the outset, the common scent, in the multiplicity of elements mobilized, and in the identical carving technique, without carving knives, but with various carving discs, chain saw and other saws. In the course of this work the manifold, organically grown characteristics of the wood, having partly emerged from weathering, are respected to enter the work. These qualities, emerging from the semiotically rich abyss of history of each individual piece of wood, supply the foundation basis for the later intervention. During the carving and in the course of cutting into each peculiar piece of wood, in xylotomy, palimpsests emerge, in which, the textured material found overlaps with design so that, with reference to Joyce and Homer new possibilities and meanings break forward, without completely extinguishing the flame of meaning already stoked up in the wood.

Sculpture:Wood on Bronze

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12.2 W x 18.9 H x 10 D in

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