The Scream of Mother Earth by Omer Gielliet is no more. Removed and destroyed by the municipality of Amsterdam. The wood of the award-winning wooden sculpture in the town of Weesp ‘was rotten and cracked’. A pity that of this groundbreaking sculpture nothing more than […]
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‘9000 BC: Domestication’, in other words: how humanity began living together with animals 9000 years before Christ. Sheep would have been domesticated first, then goats and dogs. That message is hidden in this elm wood sculpture, in which a hand symbolically pushes aside the curtain.
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Donatello depicts an emaciated Mary Magdalene. She is naked, only covered by the hair she did not cut for thirty years. The poplar wood sculpture broke with all traditions and rules of the church. The Renaissance began. The Italian Donatello (Born as: Donato di Niccolò
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3 Sirens as a symbol of enchantment, seduction, deadly danger. I worked on this lime wood sculpture intermittently in 2024. The Sirens first appeared in the Odyssey, in which Homer told about the travels across the Mediterranean Sea by the Greek hero Odysseus. 3 Sirens,
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David Nash has been processing the four elements fire, earth, water and air in wooden sculptures all his life. His work with fresh wood continues to change through drying for a long time. The fact that the fresh oak wood will crack and split is
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Auction record Leonora Carrington with the wooden sculpture painted by her ‘La Grande Dame’. Also known as: ‘The Cat Woman’. A buyer paid no less than 11.38 million dollars (!) for it at auction house Sotheby’s. This amount breaks the record of another wooden sculpture:
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Man Ray destroyed the eye of Lee Miller, attached to the inverted pendulum of a metronome. His muse and fellow photographer had left him. That is why this surrealist wooden sculpture was accompanied by the instruction: ‘destroy it in one blow’. Man Ray destroyed the
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Giacometti dreamed of a palace at night, at 4 o’clock in the morning. Influenced by other surrealist artists he constructed a fragile structure of wooden rods with abstract wooden sculptures inside: a female figure, a skeleton of some kind of flying dinosaur, a bowl with
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Asmundur Sveinsson designed the chairman’s gavels of the UN and NATO. What’s more: the gavels are identical. Mark Rutte is the fourth chairman from the Netherlands to open NATO meetings with this ‘hammer of Thor’. Both gavels have already been hammered to pieces. At his
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Ellsworth Kelly created spiritual totem poles. Not like the First Nations of the American west coast with bird figures, but completely abstract in form. With a slight curve he gave the wood some movement, giving the artwork something natural. This wooden ‘totem pole’ ‘Untitled’ by
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