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 ...
It's a strong piece though. Heavy and uncompromising.
It's stuck between two ends of a hedge behind a seat ...
That may well be the best position for it from a Health and Safety aspect, of course.
What a strange piece,you are right Charlie it does look like a head with no flesh on it.Ann
ReplyDeleteI feel as though I should know more about this piece Ann ...
DeleteIt does look like the head of a long-horn steer.
ReplyDeleteIt does doesn't it ...
DeleteIt does make a rather dramatic head rest....
ReplyDelete... or handlebars.
DeleteMy 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
ReplyDeleteIt does seem the rational thing to do, to position the sculpture there ...
DeleteAnd 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.
ReplyDeleteIt 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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