Artwork of the month - video (56 sec)
Stèle - Silver Rain
Year | 2022 |
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Size | 46 cm x 19.5 cm x 14 cm |
Materials | Black clay, glaze, silver |
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Edition | 1/1 |
For Sale | Yes, contact our gallery Fred&Ferry (Antwerp, BE) |
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Silver Rain Stele is the second stele in R&F F&R’s oeuvre to date. This stele refers not to a single event but rather to a period of transformation. Here the cosmic rain seems to herald an apocalyptic end of times, while the physical cut-out in the stele suggests an exit to a safer place or another dimension.
Other interpretations are possible, however: the work also alludes to a poem by the American poet Langston Hughes: ‘In Time of Silver Rain’ from 1947. In it, Hughes paints a beautiful picture of a world awakening from a deep slumber, with new life springing up all around. Hughes refers to this vital act of creation as ‘the wonder’.
Frank and Robbert both recently became fathers to baby daughters. A personal development that cannot fail to leave impressions. Their previous stele, Telling Stories, was a depiction of oral tradition and how we pass information onto subsequent generations through stories. It showed the protagonists in their human cocoon, actively using symbols. Bending the world to their will.
In contrast, this Silver Rain Stele shows the protagonist at the mercy of the elements of a cosmic Nature. The world is undergoing major change: fertile mana is falling from the heavens and the earth is ready to receive. The round shapes in the sky are abstractions. Might they represent other liveable planets? Are they satellites or celestial bodies? Are the stars flooding the earth with light and driving photosynthesis?
How do we minuscule humans relate to this mighty spectacle?
R&F F&R raise questions without answering them. They evoke possibilities and it is up to the viewer to explore them.
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ARTWORKS
Theater
Table Dialogues | 2021 - ongoing | |
Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning? | 2017 - 2021 | |
To Break - The window of opportunity | 2014 - 2015 |
Performances, Actions, Rituals
(Solo) Exhibitions
Magic Mirrors - Ceramic Shrine
Fred&Ferry Gallery, Antwerp (BE) |
2021 | |
Breadcrumbs
Be-Part, Waregem (BE) |
2020 | |
Dr. Valcke
Water Clinic, Kortrijk (BE) |
2015 |
Drawings
Other sculptures & installations
Other video works & projects
PONG
video installation |
2014 | |
Faces
video installation |
2014 | |
The Gilded Child
video |
2010 | |
A Documentary
video |
2010 |
Other prints, books & editions
Clay tablets
Hugging | 2020 | |
Helping Hand | 2020 | |
Lunch | 2020 | |
To Break (theatre scene) | 2020 | |
Gemini Ritual | 2019 | |
Mask Totem Pole | 2019 | |
Ritual Fire | 2019 |
Shrines
Archetypes
Sculpture |
2019 - 2021 | |
Janus Self-Portrait
Sculpture |
2021 | |
Magic Mirrors - Shrine
Sculpture |
2021 | |
Shredding Sorrows
Sculpture |
2019 | |
To Break
Sculpture |
2021 |