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Impossible Cornucopia Presents… …an adonis astride a high Baroque pedestal in the form of a bedroom chest. He is a classical harvest hero, adorned in garlands, while the drawers spill forth an equally gleaming, yet artificial, bounty. The materials and scale allude to a deception; the ceramic façade appears substantial, while it is a perfectly turned out facsimile of fertility, preoccupied with playing boudoir games of eroticism and art. Like a European statue from another cultural time, this figure, so richly and deliberately adorned, is placed in the raw, virginal Australian bush. The landscape’s beauty is random, fertile and natural - in complete contrast to the sculpture’s manufactured artifice and theatrical abundance. Formally this sculpture considers the figure’s relationship to the pedestal, the role of decoration as subject, the question of monumental scale, and the validity of contemporary art-making materials. This sculpture parades its classical heritage as an illusion while employing unique techniques and new materials to render an impossible cornucopia. Synthetic Glazed polymer cement 3500 mm h x 1400 mm w x 1100 mm d 2007 McClelland Outdoor Sculpture Survey |