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Jonty Hurwitz, Time flies when you're having fun, 2025

Jonty Hurwitz

Time flies when you're having fun, 2025
Thermoset polymer and aluminuim
156 x 45 x 15cm
Edition Size of 18
£ 31,200.00
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At its core, the artist's work is not merely a sculpture but a profound exploration of life, death, and what might come after. The piece draws upon the hauntingly enigmatic...
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At its core, the artist's work is not merely a sculpture but a profound exploration of life, death, and what might come after. The piece draws upon the hauntingly enigmatic anamorphic skull found in Hans Holbein the Younger’s renowned 16th-century painting, "The Ambassadors", seeking to delve into our intricate relationship with mortality. Holbein's skull, warped and stretched across the bottom of the canvas, only coalesces into a recognizable form when viewed from a particular angle. Similarly, the artist's sculpture may invite viewers to perceive death not as a stark, unequivocal end but as something that can be seen and understood in myriad ways depending upon one’s perspective. The sculpture underscores an enthralling dichotomy: the palpable, tangible skull representative of death, and the elusive, unfathomable questions regarding what follows our mortal existence. It doesn’t propound a singular truth about death or afterlife but rather urges viewers to embark on a reflective journey into the abyss of their own beliefs and apprehensions. A philosophical thread woven through the piece suggests that death might not be a mere binary opposite of life, not just an abrupt cessation. Instead, if one embraces the concept of an afterlife or a spiritual realm, death could be envisioned as a transformative passage. It isn't a leap from being to non-being, but a continual shift from one state of energy to
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