Clare is a figurative sculptor who captures the spontaneity of movement in her work, using stainless steel to create contemporary, fluid forms and to bring a lightness and grace to her sculptures.
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High Jinks is a play on the 1920’- 30’s Flying circus where wing-walking acrobats performed on the top wing of biplanes. The biplane here is based on the SE5 WW1 biplane developed at the Royal Aircraft Factory and used by the flying corp. With prescient knowledge, the mouse on the wing is holding on with his teeth and taking on Superman’s flying pose.
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“This work shows two faces locked together in the most intimate way, but their gaze is strangely distant. The strength of the work is the tension that exists between the two heads which are bound together. The mother figure angles her cheek to her child in a responsive manner but faces away with her eyes fixed to the horizon.
At the same time the child nuzzles the mother , but its kiss is a pout that tells us that it knows that the time for nurturing is over. The nurturer and the nurturer are also the rejecter and the rejected = to encapsulated this using such economy of means is an amazing feat. It is this that makes the figure truly modern. I love you, says the big heads, but it’s time you moved on – me and your dad have got things we want to do.”
There is movement of the right head pulling away from the left, lower head . I thought of a human bird chick (on the left), that greedily demands food of its mother – pecking kissing, feeding. The space between the two is cramped. Within their shared closeness it shows need, dependency on the one hand, and the longing to find freedom from the responsibility of care on the other. With the sizes of the heads being quite similar, there is ambivalence: are they mother and child, or lovers reproducing that first intense love affair at the beginning of life?
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In optics, a dichroic material is either one which causes visible light to be split up into distinct beams of different wavelengths (colours) (not to be confused with dispersion), or one in which light rays having different polarizations are absorbed by different amounts.
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The sphere is made entirely of copper with a 10mm armature to support the leaves, which are wrapped around the armature and welded to it. The leaves are all individually “flame painted” to achieve the appropriate colours and lacquered with UV resistant lacquer.
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Polished stainless steel. H 72cm. Limited Edition 9
Polished stainless steel is more expensive to cast than bronze, it requires much higher temperatures and a lot more finishing work, it is also due to its mirror finish that it is very difficult to photograph!
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This deceptively simple sculpture asks us to focus for a moment and appreciate a beautiful aspect of nature that is hidden from our view – the air.
The ‘Flags’ are made from a special light-refracting polyester film. As the wind changes direction,
they appear to go through gradual colour changes, and display a brilliant blue, magenta, yellow or green – especially vibrant in sunlight.
The polyester material of the flags is amazingly durable as it reflects virtually all UV light so protecting them from degradation. The pivot assemblies are made from stainless steel and other all-weather materials – all mounted on a solid stainless steel rod with its own spiral ground anchor.
Flags each 160cm high.
Price for the group of ten: £2450. Individual Flags £265.
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Material: plaster, polystyrene form, coated by water proof medium Afmetingen sizes: 130 x 130 x 110 cm
Ai’s work is based on a fictional narrative called ‘Pink Tsunami’, which references the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 and caused nearly 20,000 deaths.
Kinoko is a mushroom head-shaped character who descends from the sky carrying a bag full of the essence of life. Kinoko walks through the pink desert, places a rucksack on the ground and sits on the floor to rest. Bubbles begin to form on the surface of the bag, covering everything until suddenly they burst, bringing a new life, that had not existed in the old world.
‘Pink Tsunami’ has become its own kind of mythology, and like traditional mythology the story changes each time it is told. Ai does this by modifying, rearranging and repeating her drawings in different styles and materials to reference how stories change and evolve from storyteller to storyteller.
About Ai Hashimoto
Ai Hashimoto is a Japanese artist who lives and works in The Hague, the Netherlands. She has exhibited in various galleries and museums. Last year, for example, her graphic work was exhibited at Escher Museum and her art performance was shown on the Dutch National television programme.
The starting point for her work is always a story. A story that she creates herself and ritual theories play an important role. It is not surprising that she has a background as an anthropologist. She studied anthropology at the University of Leuven in Belgium and fine arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in the Netherlands. She incorporates her anthropological knowledge and interest into her artwork.
Ai creates multimedia works, with which she has now created a surprising and multifaceted oeuvre. Painting, paper art, sculptures, installations and performances that always reveal surprising forms and rituals she has devised. A destruction and a resilience of nature have been important themes in recent years. Through her art, she shows us a new, scenic world, more positive, peaceful and serene.
More information please have a look www.hashimotoai.com and Instagram @hashimotoai_art
About schulpture “Kinoko”
A major inspiration for one of Ai Hashimoto’s stories is the tsunami disaster in Japan. She developed the story about the character ‘Kinoko’, who develops new kinds of organisms and creates an unfamiliar landscape out of the barren desert. Kinoko is a mushroom-headed character who descends from the sky carrying a bag filled with the essence of life.
Prologue of the ‘Kinoko’ story;
After the Pink Tsunami disaster, everything was gone and covered with pink sand.
All living things seemed to be extinct.
One day, ‘Kinoko’ came down from the sky. It was carrying a yellow bag full of the essence of life. Kinoko was alone. It took the bag and put the bottom head into the ground. It sat down in a relaxed pose for a while. Small balls began to bubble on the surface of the bag and quickly covered everything. Suddenly all the balls burst and were absorbed into the pink desert. Then new life began, like bamboo shoots after rain. It seemed to be new life that did not exist in the previous world. Everything was covered with new life. The landscape is unfamiliar. It was the beginning of a new era, for better or for worse.
You can find a short movie of the picture book I made as following link;
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Also available in pewter resin (See image below for silver)
Pewter resin
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Created from original wooden abstracts, which were then used to cast the cold cast bronzes and bronzes. Each carry the character, knots and grain shown from the original wood.
Individual prices:
Largest £540
Med £450
Smallest £426
Set of 3 £1,200
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