THE ANTIKYTHERA GROUP : 2017
A SERIES OF 6
DIGITAL C TYPE PRINTS ON METALLIC PAPER
#1-4: 90 x 60 cm
#5-6: 60 x 90 cm
Ed 3 +1 AP
1. Antikythera group #1
2. Antikythera group #2
3. Antikythera group #3
4. Antikythera group #4
5. Antikythera group #5
6. Antikythera group #6
The material subject of this body of work is a group of corrosively transformed, figuratively idealised Hellenistic sculptures discovered on the seafloor off the island of Antikythera in 1900 following a shipwreck in 50 BCE.
Representing gods, epic heroes and humanly scaled anonymous children, the marble figures lay undisturbed on the seabed for approximately two millennia during which time the parts of their bodies not buried beneath the sand became dramatically excoriated by stone eating organisms.
Drawing out tensions between the corroded muscular forms and the finely polished luminous marble surfaces, this body of work continues Hazewinkel’s longstanding practice of engaging archaeological material as a means of teasing out embodied and psychological tensions between damaged figurative sculpture and our own soft ephemeral bodies.
