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the advent of the sculptures... |
| THE SCULPTURES ARE mostly in wood and bronze.
Only hardwoods will do, like oak or red ironwood
(or azobé as it is called where it grows in tropical Africa).
Hard, short-fibred woods are easiest to work with, as you can
always achieve exactly what you’re looking for.
If you don’t gouge too deep, but remove the material little by little,
the process is relatively easy... |
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THAT’S WHY IT’S easiest to work with a chisel and mallet.
It gives you
the best control and it’s the most
pleasant way to work. And the fact
is,
when you carve by hand, a kind of
synergy evolves between you as
the artist and the material you’re working with – a synthesis
of wills:
the artist’s and the wood’s.
CONTRARY TO WHAT people tend to think,
the concave forms that Torsten
Jurell so
frequently works with are not inspired to any
special degree
by the design idioms of central
Africa. They are simply a natural
consequence
of a reductive way of working, of “carving into” the stock.
That this is also a common approach in central African
sculpture is
mere coincidence.
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In the menu to the left you will find sculptures under each year like: Sculptures 2007...
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