Sunday 4 November 2012

An unnamed sculpture ... at Chatsworth

Still on the topic of what else I saw at Chatsworth [other than Barry Flanagan's sculptures] I'm moving on to an unusual piece.

 There was no name on it or near it and having done a search in Google I could find out nothing about it. Perhaps I will have to buy the Chatsworth guidebook.

It's a slightly unattractive piece to me almost as though all the meat has been boiled off the head of an ox and then the skull has been rammed on a post ...

Sculpture in the garden of Chatsworth House ...

It's a strong piece though. Heavy and uncompromising.

It's stuck between two ends of a hedge behind a seat ...

Sculpture in the garden of Chatsworth House ... and seat

That may well be the best position for it from a Health and Safety aspect, of course.

10 comments:

  1. What a strange piece,you are right Charlie it does look like a head with no flesh on it.Ann

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    1. I feel as though I should know more about this piece Ann ...

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  2. It does look like the head of a long-horn steer.

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  3. It does make a rather dramatic head rest....

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  4. My first reaction was, what a strange place to display it (or is that hide it?).... but I think you've hit the nail on the head with Health & Safety. Presumably those horns would be lethal if coming from either side

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    1. It does seem the rational thing to do, to position the sculpture there ...

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  5. And yet what I see is a World War 1 bomber about to complete a mission. Or it might be Enola Gay feeling sad about what it has to do to humanity. It is making me maudlin.

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    1. It does have the shape, the outline, of a heavy duty bomber ,,, like a Vulcan or something similar. I wish I could find out something about it.

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