Welded Metal Chain Art Goblet Sculpture Gothic Decor

Welded Metal, 26x26x28H cm, 4kg, free shipping. Featured in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgOtV6mVLFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_bak4e3_HA Djordje Aralica: WaterAirTime New chains by Djordje Aralica! On this occasion, world constitutive elements - water, air, & time - presented in the title as a single ideogram, are appropriately packed in elementary forms of a bottle, glass, ball, & hourglass. Their expanding, spilling, & flowing content acquired the shape of its glass or leather receptacles, transparency, or elasticity of which does not disguise its changeable character. Instead of these predictable materials, the artist introduces a curtain of chains, devoid of any utilitarian purpose. Once again, we submerge into Aralica's, at first sight, l'art pour l'art, manipulation of his appealing medium overwhelmed by visual impressions: verism, detail, texture, material, as well as the unexpected transformation of ideal form. His hourglasses also conceal a small audio event: the artist's time-sand in the form of an internal chain converts the hourglass into a rattle! Suddenly, all the glasses, bottles, & balls start ringing, bubbling, & fizzing in our ears, revealing thus their real content. Is this Aralica's laconic wit that celebrates the easiness of life, escapism, or lightheartedness, or could it be a call for discerning a curtain that separates us from that which imparts meaning to our existence, & which beats, breaths, boils, & leaks independently from us? Marina Mihaljevi, Ph.D. Art Historian Welded Metal Chain Art Goblet Sculpture Gothic Decor