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Melting wax (2011)
Urs Fischer created a haunting replica in wax of Giambologna's 16th-century sculpture, "The rape of the Sabine women". The original sculpture is housed in the Loggia in Florence and features prominently in the classic film "A room with the view". Fisher ingeniously decided to create a giant slowly melting life-sized sculpture for the 2011 Venice Biennale. Throughout the duration of the Venice Biennale the sculpture slowly melted into nothingness, thereby becoming the ultimate statement on the passage of time. Imbued with their own mortality, his sculptures and installations cultivate the experiential function of art. The melting sculpture challenges the viewer's own notions of mortality, loss, perfection, catastrophe and the sublime. Moreover, what can be more 'gothic' than melting wax?
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