Jeff Robb
Juno III
2022

Name: Juno III
Brand: Jeff Robb
Price: 6011.19 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

If in the Threshold series the figures seem to be ascending, in the Juno series the opposite seems to be the case. There is a sense of falling, but no sense of the fallen. As in Threshold, the Juno figures are athletes, embodiments of energy. Robb describes them in images full of heroic diagonals, bold sweeping lines, and cascades of drapery. The action is gymnastic, unimpeded, almost violent, and yet the figures still seem calm, relaxed and in control. Every extension of limb or flourish of drapery is balanced by a counter movement, giving each pose an underlying sense of nobility. The images satiate our desire both for liberation and freedom, and for order and harmony. Maybe this paradox is down to the three-dimensional nature of lenticular photograph –walking around the picture animates the figure, freeing it, yet no matter how hard we look, no matter what angle we take, the figure remains at rest elevated in the air at the centre of an exquisitely balanced composition. And while we are immersed in the three dimensions, Robb also asks us to contemplate the fourth dimension, time. How will these movements unfold? Try as we might, we can’t quite believe they will ever fall, or end up on the ground we inhabit. We believe in these figures, in their higher powers, in their dance that appears before us like frozen music. As the title of the series suggests, the figures are clearly possessed with divine, not mortal, energy. Perhaps then, we know the end of their story. They move under the safeguard of Juno, the Roman goddess who championed women and protected the state, until they are ready to be taken out of their dance and raised to their seats in heaven. In this sense, Juno, like Threshold, is about the ascension of the human soul, about what it is to feel like a god. - Mathew Rake

Creator:

Jeff Robb

Creation Year:

2022

Dimensions:

Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)

More Editions & Sizes:

75x75 cm, Edition of 15 + 2 APPrice: $9,290100x100 cm, Edition of 9 + 2 APPrice: $13,880120x120 cm, Edition of 6 + 2 APPrice: $18,580

Medium:

Lenticular

Movement & Style:

Contemporary