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Posted on 23/06/13 09:48:53 AM |
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Sjef
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Russian statue
Exposition Russia XXI at Museum Beelden Aan Zee - BRONZE Finepix X100 - ISO 200 - F2 - 1/125 - 35 mm http://www.beeldenaanzee.nl/en 
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Posted on 23/06/13 8:33:24 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Russian statue
Well, I think that's about the weirdest sculpture I've ever seen. Sure you didn't model it in Poser? |
Posted on 24/06/13 08:04:00 AM |
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Sjef
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Re: Russian statue
Title: Action Half Life Made by: AES+F group, 2003-2005, Russia. Series of pictures, series of drawings, series of bronze sculptures. Text: Our heroes are teenagers emerging from the most heroic of life's phases. The teenage moment is the moment when a young shepherd can take heart and gain victory over a hulking giant and when an abandoned child can find the inner spiritual strength to extract a magic sword from a rock to become king, vanquishing all enemies. All of our young heroes are conquerors in this virtual world. Their enemy is absent, and pain and suffering are forbidden by the very nature of the game. They are so alienated that nothing, not even their common virtual battlefield, stops them from giving themselves over to pure personal exploit, to securing victory over an enemy, an enemy that does not exist. The driving concept behind this performance / construct is our perpetual attempt to precipitate the “genome of heroism” out of today's world of glimmer reality.  |
Posted on 25/06/13 12:38:34 PM |
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BigVern
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Re: Russian statue
Sjef, I like the statues but left in bewilderment by the "explanatory" text. If you have them, please could you provide closups of the other models? Thanks Vern _________________ "We're going to need a bigger boat!" Jaws |
Posted on 25/06/13 6:51:53 PM |
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Sjef
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Re: Russian statue
Could'nt send files in a private message, so I reduced them to not overload Steve's website. In future I'll use some other methode if needed. These are all my pictures of the statues, but there were lots more sculptures of course at this exposition (see the one in stainless steel).  |
Posted on 25/06/13 6:52:19 PM |
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Sjef
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Posted on 25/06/13 6:52:36 PM |
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Sjef
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Posted on 25/06/13 6:52:53 PM |
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Sjef
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Posted on 25/06/13 6:53:14 PM |
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Sjef
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Posted on 25/06/13 6:53:46 PM |
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Sjef
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Posted on 25/06/13 11:11:31 PM |
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BigVern
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Brilliant ... thanks Sjef _________________ "Why so serious?" The Dark Knight |
Posted on 26/06/13 09:25:31 AM |
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Sjef
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Well, it's not so much the statues which are brilliant indeed, but all that highlights I'm fascinated by. And the way they turned bronze into a kind of gold. Maybe it isn't bronze at all, but brass. Couldn't perceive if they were varnished. |
Posted on 26/06/13 12:00:55 PM |
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BigVern
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Brilliant in every way:  The design of the statues
Their crafting
Their materials
The Museum's decisions to show them
Your photographs
Your kind decision to share them
... and any other variation or extension of the above. Yes they do look brassy (or is it brazen?) ... again many connotations on that one.  _________________ "The true story of a real fake" Catch Me If You Can |