Rare Midcentury Ceramic Wall Sculpture Lovers, 1970s

- Rare ceramic wall sculpture. - Nice colored.

- rare sculpture - marked

- rare - marked by label

- rare - midcentury design decoration

Brutalist wall sculpture designed and manufactured by the Danish artist Henrik Horst, circa 1970s. Patinated metal construction mounted on a frame of wood.

Brutalist wall sculpture designed and manufactured by the Danish artist Henrik Horst, circa 1970s. Patinated metal construction mounted on a frame of wood.

Expressive abstract relief sculpted in rough clay and glazed with copper oxides in matt grey-green. It is a dynamic wall decoration, signed H77.  

Rare and beautiful life-size hammered copper panel of a dancing African warrior with spear and shield. Wrought copper panel in the style of acclaimed Zaïre artist Gabriel Kalumba Tshung Manu (1940-2019), worked in Congo between 1960s-1985s.This low-relief depicting dancing African warrior and is signed “Kalumba Tshung-Manu” (lower right).Kalumba was passionate by copper and influenced by his popular African culture.Gabriel Kalumba Tshung Manu brass drummer and brass maker, he won the Grand Prix at the World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966 in Dakar, Senegal, in the Plastic Arts category.Gabriel Kalumba, born in 1940 is the grandson of a traditional sculptor, his father was an ivoirier.After his humanities, he studied Fine Arts in Lubumbashi then brass work in Maredsous (Belgium), before introducing the technique to Zaire (current Democratic Republic of Congo).In 1966, at the initiative of the president and poet Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first "World Festival of Negro Arts" organized in Dakar (Senegal), was created. Personalities from all walks of life took part: Aimé Césaire...