Sarah Lucas | “Lion Heart“, 1995 | (for Parkett 45)
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Parkett Vol. 45
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“Sarah Lucas gives as good as she gets. She’s a code-breaker and a ball-buster, a saboteur and a spy. Elegantly in-your-face, Lucas is a smutty, salt-of-the-earth lout whose unequivocal work is raw and loud and startling. It is also efficient and concise. In her art, Lucas doesn’t mince words and she doesn’t waste them either. She gets quickly to the point—and the point usually has to do with the ways women are viewed in society.”
Jerry Saltz, Parkett No. 45, 1995
“Lion Heart“, 1995 (for Parkett 45)
Cast metal, approx. 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 1 3/4” (7 x 7 x 4,5 cm),
50 pieces of cast lead, 50 pieces of cast brass,
produced at the Jäger Brothers Foundry, Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland,
Ed. 100/XXX, signed and numbered
Limited Availability. Complimentary Shipping.
Artist Document
Sarah Lucas’ “Lionheart” for Parkett 42 was cast in both a brass and a lead version. Image 1 shows the positive prototype (right) and its intermediary negative silicone cast (left), which then was used to form a positive wax cast. The latter was next covered with its negative plaster form, from which it was melted and “lost”. Finally the melted brass resp. lead was poured back into the now empty plaster form (image 2).
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