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Handlinger Visningsindstillinger	Detaljer Remove from selection Add to selection Ng Eng Teng Collection ObjektnummerN2001-0001-044-0 TitelTorso OphavNg Eng Teng (1934 – 2001) Beskrivelse“Torse … vivify ways by which the body is presented as fragements or as partial entities. The body is subjected to sustained crisis; it can no longer be seen, be shown, as automonous,as a whole and integrated being. It is reduced, deformed, reformed and appears as configurations far removed from conforming to an ideal or to nature. These tendencies are hoisted into heightened levels in the 1990s, when figures appear as objects of suppression and shame. Torso demonstrates a reductive approach to representing the figure; hips and lower limbs are gathered into a compact mass and are consolidated as a stump. The pace of delineation alters as we cast our attention upwards, vertically; the figure assumes a form analogous to a slender tree trunk which ends abruptly, as an indecisive terminus.” (Bodies & Figures, An Overview of Ng Eng Teng, Page 18). Genstand kategoriSculpture MaterialeStoneware, glaze, oil paint Mål H: 58.7 cm L: 20.5 cm W: 24.9 cm Weight: 5.6 kg KreditrammeGift of Ng Eng Teng

ObjektnummerN2001-0001-044-0

TitelTorso

OphavNg Eng Teng (1934 – 2001)

Beskrivelse“Torse … vivify ways by which the body is presented as fragements or as partial entities. The body is subjected to sustained crisis; it can no longer be seen, be shown, as automonous,as a whole and integrated being. It is reduced, deformed, reformed and appears as configurations far removed from conforming to an ideal or to nature. These tendencies are hoisted into heightened levels in the 1990s, when figures appear as objects of suppression and shame. Torso demonstrates a reductive approach to representing the figure; hips and lower limbs are gathered into a compact mass and are consolidated as a stump. The pace of delineation alters as we cast our attention upwards, vertically; the figure assumes a form analogous to a slender tree trunk which ends abruptly, as an indecisive terminus.” (Bodies & Figures, An Overview of Ng Eng Teng, Page 18).

Genstand kategoriSculpture

MaterialeStoneware, glaze, oil paint

Mål

H: 58.7 cm
L: 20.5 cm
W: 24.9 cm
Weight: 5.6 kg

KreditrammeGift of Ng Eng Teng

Detaljer