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Trophy (Baseball #2) by Yoram Wolberger, 2017

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Yoram Wolberger
Trophy (Baseball #2) by Yoram Wolberger, 2017
2017

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Trophy (Baseball #2) by Yoram Wolberger, 2008 Additional information: Medium: Cast stainless steel Dimensions: 84 × 65 × 29 in (213.4 × 165.1 × 73.7 cm) Edition 3/3 + 2AP Yoram Wolberger uses childhood toys and everyday domestic items to create his large scale sculptures, foregrounding the latent symbolism and cultural paradigms of these objects that so subtly inform Western culture. By enlarging this ephemera to life size, Wolberger emphasizes the distortions of their original manufacture disallowing any real illusion and conceptually forcing the viewer to reconsider their meanings. When enlarged beyond any possibility of dismissal, we see that toy soldiers create lines between Us and Them, plastic cowboys and Indians marginalize and stereotype the Other, even wedding cake bride and groom figurines dictate our expected gender roles. ARTIST STATEMENT ON THE TROPHY SERIES OF SCULPTURE WORKS: My art manipulates and challenges our perceptions of the familiar through a variety of sculptural interventions. I often choose to work with everyday, culturally iconic, objects to which we attach deep-seated and often unconscious meanings. Transformed beyond their expected context, these evolved objects suggest new associations and provoke fresh insights into their larger meaning and relevance. For this project, I am interested in examining the contrast between the symbolic and the material dimensions of what I refer to as common sports trophies. Specifically, these are the small silver or gold-colored figurines typically awarded in recreational sports. With their idealized figures, such trophies are awarded to represent essential qualities of greatness in a participant. As cultural artifacts, however, our common childhood trophies epitomize values that are intrinsic not only to that sport, but to American culture and society as well. In the archaeology of American cultural artifacts, common sports trophies are fitting symbols of personal achievement within a democratic society. Cast from non-precious materials to shine like silver and gold, they are at once common objects and personal treasures. Originally reserved for champions, they are now often awarded to recreational players in honor of a variety of achievements other than victory, including participation. Some purists believe such liberal distribution rewards mediocrity and dilutes our vital societal value of “playing to win”. However, I believe the ubiquity of trophies in recreational play both reflects and promotes the unique cultural values that elevate each sport we participate in from mere competitive activity to social institution. For most, after all, involvement in sports begins casually, with family and friends in backyards and neighborhood parks, then later, in junior leagues. Welcoming people of all ages, backgrounds, colors and classes, competitive sports offer formative experiences of social collaboration, personal development and, for many immigrants and their families, acculturation. The culture of sports and achievement thus nurtures many qualities essential for successful democracy, such as inclusion, community and honoring everyone as valuable. They connect societal values of teamwork, sportsmanship, effort and dedication with personal ideals of success, celebrity and fame. Many of the icons of professional sports today who are our culture’s most celebrated heroes started with nothing: these trophies shine with the promise of the American Dream, whereby any person may, through sheer heart, rise from the dust to an elevated place of glory. My intention is to design and construct life-size figurines, standing between 6 and 8 feet tall and meticulously replicating the smaller versions found on common sports trophies of our youth – whether it was Little League Baseball, Pop Warner Football, AAU Swimming, or the USA Junior Hockey Leagues. Fabricated from stainless steel casts and polished to a chrome-like finish, they will magnify the humble grandeur of the familiar shiny figurines while exposing the typical casting seams, mass-production flaws and design shortcuts that normally escape our attention. Enlarged 20 times beyond their original size, the trophies’ imperfections become relevant and, it is my hope, intriguing. For some, the sculptures will evoke personal memories of inspiring moments, achievements and lessons learned from the game. For others, they will stand as noble monuments of the American Dream. And for others still, the contrast between the figures’ idealized poses and their structural imperfections will provoke deeper contemplation of our values of competition, achievement and the risks that accompany the rise to fame, and those common experiences that tie us all together through that process. Wolberger (b. 1963, Tel Aviv, Israel) earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute's (CA) New Genres Department. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), deCordova Sculpture Park (MA), the Aldrich Contemporary Museum (CT), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL) and the Israeli Museum of Modern Art (Israel) among others. His works have been acquired for the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside (CA) and the McNay Art Museum (TX). The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

Creator:
Yoram Wolberger (1963, American)
Creation Year:
2017
Dimensions:
Height: 84 in (213.36 cm)Width: 65 in (165.1 cm)Depth: 29 in (73.66 cm)
Medium:
Stainless Steel
Movement & Style:
Pop Art
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Each work is cast as the work is ordered. Allow 120-150 days for delivery upon payment in full.
Gallery Location:
Orange, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2793215966452

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