Sculpture "Little Elephant", cast version, metallic blue
Sculpture "Little Elephant", cast version, metallic blue
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 499 copies | numbered | signed | hallmarked | certificate | cast | metallic look | lacquered | size 19.5 x 16 x 22 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 4 kg
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Sculpture "Little Elephant", cast version, metallic blue
Jagna Weber rediscovers contemporary animal sculptures in the style of Constantin Brancusi, Franz Marc and Ewald Matarée. She abstracts the forms, reduces the lines to the essence of the model and at the same time manages to hold a warming connection to the viewer.
"Little Elephant": Born big yet vulnerable for a long time. There is still plenty of room in the skin in which an elephant is growing up.
Sculpture made of high-quality cast, metallic look, high-gloss finish. Limited edition of 499 copies, numbered, signed and hallmarked with the foundry and ars mundi stamp. With numbered certificate of authenticity and limitation. Size 19.5 x 16 x 22 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 4 kg. ars mundi Exclusive Edition. Blue version.
About Jagna Weber
Jagna Weber, born in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1962, studied at the Kunsthochschule in Kassel from 1987 to 1993 with the professors Manfred Bluth and Kurt Haug. Her first exhibitions, initially in the Hessian region, followed immediately. Very quickly, however, her works were in demand both nationally and internationally, and as early as 2001, Weber reached the final round of the International Sculpture Biennale in Toyamura, Japan. Since then, her works have been closely followed by art connoisseurs at home and abroad.
Weber is a versatile sculptor who has mastered various areas of sculptural art. Her original animal sculptures, for which she does not abandon the figurative, even slightly abstracting the model, always attract particular interest. In this way, she always captures the "essence" of the animal depicted, even inscribing a "personality" on it in a thoroughly humorous way.
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