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Contemporary art sculpture marble with mirror shard by Roos Schneijderberg
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This contemporary marble art sculpture with mirror shard is created by artist / designer Roos Schneijderberg. The art piece is a personal - fairly feminine - self-reflective, and contemporary interpretation of the original sculpture La Danaide by Rodin, enriched with a dimension of insightful introspection and current social significance. The contemporary art piece carries the name Hypermnestra And I Were Both Broken - But We Women, Rise Again.
The work shows a defeated woman - a modern Hypermnestra also known as La Danaide - at the moment of despair lying cringed and curled on the floor. A mirror shard is placed before her eyes, making her faceless.
The moment the spectator looks at the sculpture, the person will see one’s own face reflected in the mirror shard. Even when looking behind the sharp shard, the face of the female figure is not visible. It remains hidden behind the sculpted hair and hand, which ensures the woman’s anonymity, and makes it possible for the spectator to think oneself as the person lying broken. The female figure could be any modern woman today, here she lies nearly naked, physically and mentally. The viewer witnesses the intense moment of emotional brokenness, resulting in the intimate pose.
The female figure is nearly naked - physically and mentally. The spectator witnesses the intense, emotional moment of mental brokenness, resulting in this intimate pose.
A significant detail forms the sculpted panties - by which the original La Danaide sculpture is now catapulted to the present time. Equally important, is that by this, contrasting associations give the viewer conflicting signals, and leave room for multiple interpretations.
The spectator may see a vulnerable, broken woman, and possible feel compassion, maybe recognise oneself in her. The sharp cut shard symbolises - and exudes - the perceived, piercing, emotional pain. While the tiny string not only makes the work contemporary, but also emphasises the buttocks, and the sensuality in the posture.
By this, the woman becomes vulnerable, and seductive desirable at the same time. The interesting question is, what will be the dominant interpretation of the spectator.
The sacred marble, the highly polished back, the fine lines in the pose, the smooth shoulder blades and the wavy hair, all exude a soft streamlined energy that has been made possible with the greatest attention and effort.
But, suddenly there is the whimsical - worthless - illogical, penetrating imperfect shard. Stuck into the polished image like a knife. A huge jammer in the harmonious balance. A counterforce within the art piece itself, establishing a pervasive tension, and expressing the antagonistic, duality, and complexity for women today.
The art piece is not only a psychological, self-reflective, and aesthetic piece. It clearly has a - moralistic - social message, besides communicating this inner- and outer- conflict of women today.
It illustrates the unrighteous normalisation of female harassment, and the complex role, the ancillary dualistic, feelings for modern women. Who despite all changes in society remain ‘objects of desire and seduction’ - but posses great - resurrecting - strength.
Hypermnestra And I Were Both Broken - But We Women, Rise Again, expresses the believe that pushing back men, regarding women’s safety and respect, including the metoo movement, was badly needed to rebalance society, and to create a new playing field. Like healing a wound, and adjust society’s code of conduct.
Rodin’s sculpture La Danaide was deliberately chosen to communicate this message. The Greek mythological story on which Rodin's La Danaide is based, is the story of Hypernmestra.
Hypernmestra was one of the fifty daughters of ancient king Danaus, who arranged for his fifty daughters to marry, and secretly ordered them all, to kill their husbands during their wedding nights. Only one daughter Hypermnestra, did not obey her father’s command, because her husband respected her wish not to have sexual intercourse during the wedding night.
The fact that, this man respected the personal values and wishes of a woman, saved his life. It is this message - besides expressing women’s survival power - that the work wants to send out. Not to disrespect the boundaries of women. Hypermnestra And I Were Both Broken - But We Women, Rise Again is a warning to men, and a call for women to see their own strength.
The sculpture weighs about ca. 200 kilos and was hand carved out of Carrara marble after first having made a model in clay. A process that all together took more than six months, and was a close collaboration between the artist and the stonemasons who carved the piece.
The Carrara marble highlights the historical dimension. But, combined with the modern nickers and the mirrored glass, Hypermnestra And I Were Both Broken - But We Women, Rise Again becomes a mix all ages.
The use of mirrored glass, symbolises and stimulates the process of self-reflection. The sculpture can be placed on a white cube wooden pedestal with 8 mm mirror top, making the sculpture appear to float, or situated in water like a rock or island. Accentuating the woman’s loneliness and solitude.
The mirrored glass, like deep water, is calling the spectator to come closer, and fall into one’s inner well, like a Siren enticing you into the proces of introspection.
Roos Schneijderberg is a Dutch multidisciplinary creative. Her work includes conceptual furniture, sculptures, mixed media objects, video installations, paintings, and scenery creations. Her style is sophisticated yet bold presented with some serious lightness. Introspection, femininity, and a refined abrasive interaction between imperfection and aestheticism are recurring themes in her oeuvre.
- Creator:Roos Schneijderberg (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 18.51 in (47 cm)Width: 33.08 in (84 cm)Depth: 15.36 in (39 cm)
- Style:Modern (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:2020
- Production Type:New & Custom(One of a Kind)
- Estimated Production Time:Available Now
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- Seller Location:Rotterdam, NL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU9799241973082
Roos Schneijderberg
Roos Schneijderberg (Zoetermeer, 1977) is a Dutch multidisciplinary creative. Introspection, femininity, and a refined abrasive interaction between imperfection and aestheticism are recurring themes in her oeuvre. Her work includes conceptual furniture, sculptures, mixed media objects, video installations, paintings, poems and scenery creations. Her style is sophisticated yet bold presented with some serious lightness. Her background in advertising and psychology paved the way for her conceptual thinking and the emotion based messages in her works.
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