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| The Italian artist's wooden sculptures of children carry objects inspired by war and religion |
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| GEHARD DEMETZ: The Invocation, May 1 – 31, 2014 |
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Religious Woodcarver Gehard Demetz Returns to NYC With His Children
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By TAHLIB
NEW YORK---The haunting wooden sculptures of children by Gehard Demetz are again on display in "The Invocation" at the Jack Shainman Gallery. Trained as a religious sculptor in Italy, his sculptures use children to investigate contemporary culture and our loss of that innocence through the larger forces of war, religion, and politics. In a 2012 interview in Dazed Digitali, Demetz explained: “My sculptures transmit the awareness of becoming adults and thus losing, as Rudolf Steiner says, their ability to be able to “hear” their unconscious." [More]
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