Joseph Klibansky - Under the Influence London Monday, April 7, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Rize Gallery, Amsterdam
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Catalogue Essay

    Joseph Klibansky explores the borders between various media, trying to find an interaction between highly detailed computer designed objects and traditional hand-made bronze sculptures. For Klibansky, the use of modern day technology and state of the art machinery like 3D-printing and scanning, are an integral part of his poetic expressions. Through his work Klibansky tries to tell the story of a rapidly changing culture, where people are hot-wired into an ever-expanding digital highway of information and influences wherever they go.
    “The high pace of 21st century life creates a kind of compression whereby we want to transfer our messages even quicker through the use of icons” Klibansky explains.
    In his sculpture Elements of Life the entire life cycle is condensed in to just four icons that contain one’s pleasures, tragedies and all of life’s emotions in a single blink of an eye. “To portray one’s life in such a simple way is quite a confronting thing and demands a form of self reflection” Klibansky adds.

    His sculptures are socially experimental and conceptual works that are mostly figurative in form.

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Elements of Life (part of the Elements Series)

2012
mirror-polished bronze on Thassos marble base
193 x 40 x 20 cm (75 7/8 x 15 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
Incise signed, titled numbered and dated 'Joseph Klibansky 3/5 "Elements of Life" 08-08-2014' on the base of the bronze at the reverse. This work is number 3 from an edition of 5.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £47,500

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Under the Influence

London Auction 8 April 2014 2pm