1980 Bronze Abstract Artifact Sculpture by American Artist Peter DeCamp Haines

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1980 Bronze Abstract Artifact Sculpture by American Artist Peter DeCamp Haines

About the Item

Peter DeCamp Haines created this amazingly gorgeous bronze sculpture, part of his Artifacts series. The abstract, elongated shape has a polished surface, while the weightiness of the piece, the simplicity and complexity all at once are all hallmarks of a Peter DeCamp Haines sculpture. Signed and dated on verso. Artist statement: The Object is the Idea I am a maker of objects, and the object itself is the main idea in my sculpture. For 30 years, I have been working on a project that consists of a collection of minimal, tool-like bronzes- now numbering in the hundreds. Metaphorically, I think of this work as “An Archaeology” of the subconscious. Artifacts have been a continuing thread in my work since I found my first one (an axe) in a dream around 1975. Simple, elegant, refined – they seem to me to be simultaneously archaic and modern. Metaphorically, I think of these objects, now numbering in the hundreds, as an ‘archaeology’ of the subconscious. They are made for the hand as well as for the eye. Simple shapes elaborate into complexity. Images (humans, animals, architecture, tools ) inevitably appear. I think that this is the projection of the warm subconscious onto the cool geometry of elemental forms. On another level, the artifacts are studies of archetypal forms which can be elaborated into more complex images. An advantage of sculpture is that ideas such as wholeness, beauty, timelessness can be expressed without words. One of the elements of this wordless expression is negative space. A doughnut is defined by its hole. If one accepts space as part of the doughnut, where does the doughnut end? Thus the doorways, windows, silhouettes of my sculptures can suggest an area larger than the sculpture itself. Since Marcel Duchamp in the 1930s, ideas about sculpture have proliferated in countless directions, from Andy Warhol to Nam June Paik. My own pursuit has been a continuing exploration of the formal attributes of sculpture: Form, scale, negative space, composition.

Creator:
Peter DeCamp Haines (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 3 in (7.62 cm)Width: 6.38 in (16.21 cm)Depth: 0.88 in (2.24 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1980
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU151024799703