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Bjørn Okholm SkaarupThe Flying Turtle2025
2025
$48,000
£36,258.65
€41,904.67
CA$67,452.93
A$74,995.95
CHF 39,489.91
MX$909,926.50
NOK 499,961.65
SEK 467,342.29
DKK 312,716.92
About the Item
Edition of 9
Measurements in include black steel base.
The Greek playwright (and so-called Father of Tragedy) Aeschylus was warned by the
Oracle of Delphi that he would be struck down by a heavy object dropped from the sky.
In panic he fled to the open countryside – but was killed when a turtle fell from the
talons of a large eagle. This rendition of the turtle appears mid-flight transformed into an
elaborate automaton. Its visible gearwork evoke the Antikythera mechanism – often
dubbed the world’s first computer – discovered in a shipwreck from the 2nd century
BCE. Equal parts myth and machine, The Flying Turtle nods to the strange ways in
which fate can find us, even in the wide-open fields…
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- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)Depth: 32 in (81.28 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU18116779792
Bjørn Okholm Skaarup
Illustrator and sculptor Bjørn Okholm Skaarup brings vibrant life to his contemporary art through a parade of joyfully imaginative animalistic figures. These creatures are often depicted in anthropomorphic poses, such as a cheetah riding a scooter or a rhino dressed as a harlequin.
Okholm Skaarup was born in 1973 in Rudkøbing, Denmark. In 1994, he began working at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. In 2004, he moved to Florence, Italy, to study the work of the Renaissance masters and learn large-scale bronze casting. He received a PhD in 2009 from the European University Institute.
Now based in New York City, Okholm Skaarup builds on elements of art history in his work, as seen in his numerous renditions of the Hippo Ballerina, which is a whimsical take on Edgar Degas’s The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer with an enthusiastic nod to Disney. Many of his artworks contain a mischievous twist, like his bronze sculpture of a lion with a crown on his head, riding a rocking horse instead of a majestic stallion.
Okholm Skaarup is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and has exhibited his works at many notable venues, including the Koldinghus Museum in Kolding, Denmark, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, the Four Seasons Hotel in Florence and the Hotel Cipriani in Venice.
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