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Steve TobinSteel Tornado (NEST with one large mirror-polish egg) by Steve Tobin2021
2021
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A mirror polished stainless steel egg reflects its environment while the steel "tornado" holds the egg up to create more drama. Beautiful in the garden!
One of a kind and signed by the artist.
Other sizes available by commission. Please inquire.
"The NESTS are another phase in my existential transformation series", says Tobin. "Seeing yourself reflecting in the mirror-polished steel egg puts the viewer in the egg in the nest. This implies the question of our own transformations. What is next for us?"
Some NESTS are composed of cast bronze twigs, looking as though designed by a very meticulous bird and splashed with Tobin's ever creative patinas. Tobin clarifies: "The richly colored patinas are not meant to mimic nests in nature but are asking the question: what kind of creature made this? what will emerge...?"
Others are black painted welded steel, going up into a swirl reminiscent of an art nouveau flourish that evokes a stylized tornado. All hold one or several precious eggs in stainless steel or bronze. The eggs either exhibit a highly reflective mirror finish, or are in brushed stainless to appear bluish, and in all cases they offer a focus, a contrast to the nest structure and a reference to the beginning of life.
The dimensions shown are approximate. Please inquire if you need exact measurements before placing your order.
- Creator:Steve Tobin (1957, American)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Glen Ellen, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7129284292
Steve Tobin
Steve Tobin is an American sculptor best known for his beyond monumental sculptures of Roots in steel or cast bronze. Trained in mathematics, Tobin has always pushed the physical boundaries of the sculptural materials he chose to work with: he made blown glass pieces too tall to stand (but they finally stood); he created 40’ tall glass waterfalls; he made his huge clay sculptures explode, revealing geode-like brightly colored glass inside. And again and again, he went back to nature for inspiration, to take molds of giant termite hills in Ghana, cast into bronze sculptures as high as 20’, or of the forest floors to make his Earth Bronzes. Tobin's monumental Steelroots, using large industrial steel pipes with painstakingly welded joints, explore the archetypal relationship between humans and nature. More recently, Tobin has created a series of highly reflective stainless steel clouds, bringing the sky down to earth, and a series of bird nests in many sizes, from miniature to monumental, in cast bronze twigs or welded steel, that hold precious eggs in stainless steel or bronze: the beginning of life.
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