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TSUKOMOGAMI SHEEP, bench sculpture, without bronze horns

Creator: Philip Michael Wolfson
Offered by: Marion Friedmann Gallery

Description
Tsukumogami (“artefact spirit”) are a type of Japanese spirit. Living inanimate objects. A series of experimental studies using Concrete Canvas. As concrete, the material possesses an inherent strength, and as a fabric – albeit quite a heavy fabric – it has an innate organic quality and movement. In its raw state, it can be seen as a finished product, not requiring polishing, sanding, or painting, which is required of any other material or process. The intrinsic life of the material stimulates a conscious awareness of the senses for an immediate response - modelling and moulding the raw flesh-ness of the material from an idea, a thought or feeling, rather than developing the works through sketch phases, analysis and then development stages.

Tsukumogami Sheep:

There is an intrinsic life within the material that stimulates immediate response - modelling and moulding the raw flesh-ness of the material from an idea, a thought or feeling, rather than developing the works through sketch phases, analysis and then development stages.
The domestic detritus, remnants of building materials and found objects used to create and give form to the Tsuku’s – collected along an urban journey - are directly linked to the areas where each series is created.
It is the memory of these remnants that allows for their development of logic, hypotheses and the accumulation of knowledge, churning in a primordial ether of emotions and growth, manifested in the physical forms that each Tsuku takes on, as well as the emotions it emits.

An ode to Lalanne's sheep sculpture.

VARIOUS COLOURS POSSIBLE. SUITABLE FOR OUTDOORS

More Information

Customization Options:	we can do different sizes, think baby sheep, adult sheep, colour tones, with or without bronze horns.
Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	England
Period:	New
Materials:	Concrete Canvas, folded, with optional brass or bronze horns
Condition:	New.
Creation Date:	2011-now
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Contemporary, Collectible Design
Incollect Reference #:	675410

Dimensions

W.	35.43 in;	H.	23.62 in;	D.	15.75 in;
W.	90 cm;	H.	60 cm;	D.	40 cm;

Message from Seller:

Marion Friedmann Gallery launched in 2011 in London and merges a penchant for the avant-garde with a passion to celebrate and promote the most remarkable emerging and established contemporary designers. The gallery represents eclectic & eccentric collectible design with a special interest in`Materiality ́as well as in pieces with a positive environmental message. The objects range from furniture, lighting, objets d`art, jewelry and sculpture. We develop bespoke and special commissions.