A Curious Public Sculpture
I have driven past this sculpture that stands in front of the Walla Walla Public Library hundreds of times but have never taken the time to stop and take a close-up look.
Mea culpa! Look what I've been missing!
“Matilde” by native Colombian artist Nano Lopez is a colorful and festive bronze sculpture of a cow carrying local produce
to market. But this is no ordinary cow! The abundant use of surface texture turns a close examination into a scavenger hunt for numbers, letters, shapes and other natural and man-made motifs that all vie for the viewer's attention.
A knob-topped round vessel. . .
. . .dotted hindquarters . . .
. . .machine gears . . .
. . . and old computer parts . . .
. . . a frog . . .
. . .a native Colombian bird . . .
. . .and a green lizard in the see-through belly. . .
I wonder what they all mean?
To see the artist and hear what he says about his sculpture, click here.
Very unusual!
ReplyDeleteI immediately thought of the rice paddies of Indonesia and Burma (my brain can't think of the new nomenclature for that country, sorry). Sometimes looking for meaning is not the point I find. I would like this just for the textures!
ReplyDeleteShe is a curious beauty, inside and out.
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