Francois Villon Sculpture - The Wheel by Mihaela Nicolcioiu-Savu

The Wheel is a sculpture by Mihaela Nicolcioiu-Savu which was uploaded on February 2nd, 2011.

The Wheel

Whenever possible, I try to add an interactive element allowing the viewer to be engaged and become a part of the art object. My last completed... more

by Mihaela Nicolcioiu-Savu

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Price

$12,000

Dimensions

250.000 x 250.000 x 45.000 cm.

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Title

The Wheel

Artist

Mihaela Nicolcioiu-Savu

Medium

Sculpture - Laminated Wood, Plaster, Found Objects

Description

Whenever possible, I try to add an interactive element allowing the viewer to be engaged and become a part of the art object. My last completed series is titled �Where is the Snow of Yesterwinters?� Inspired by the interrogative refrain in Francois Villon�s "Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past", the laminated wood reminiscent of old snow sleds� skids was used to build a 10-foot wheel, whose spokes are real tree branches implanted in weathered plaster cubes and converging in a laminated wood hub spinning on a metallic stand. The softest touch will make the wheel rotate.
Found objects are often part of my work; they have their independent history, they bear the burden of the past, they know time, they are not made but rather the result of a genesis process. The same energy charge is intrinsic to both the aforementioned found materials, and wood; the latter used to be a tree, to feel, hear, live; and it eventually died.

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February 2nd, 2011