NEWS: RECENT EXHIBITION
RITA NOWAK & WELLS TEMPEST
26.7. - 30.8.2020
25th July 2020 from 5pm - 7pm
Galerie Schloss Damtschach
Damtschacher Straße 18, 9241 Wernberg, Kärnten, Austria
opening times: Saturday - Sunday 2pm - 7pm
Wells Tempest is a British sculptor whose enigmatic wood and bronze pieces are influenced by nature, ancient cultures and mythology, particularly Egyptian and
Meso-American. Geometry and mathematic formulae are recurrent throughout his work, making use of naturally occuring geometric forms, vortices and the Fibonacci sequence.
These pieces here are from the series ‘AEGYPTIANA’.
IBIS
carved wood
“The series AEGYPTIANA, is comprised of various representations of deities and primal elements from ancient egyptian mythology. One aspect of many ancient cultures is the depiction of deities as zoomorphic figures: human bodies with animal or insect features, usually heads. Thoth, the scribe god of learning is always depicted with the head of an ibis, and Wadjet, the guardian goddess appears as a seated woman with the head of a lioness or as a rearing cobra; both deities have inspired pieces in the collection.”
MOUND OF CREATION
cast bronze
CRYSTALLINE FORM
carved woods
COBRA
cast bronze
TOTEMS
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