SPENDING THE DAY ON A STONE (Pink)

A new collaboration with Joakim Ojanen transfigures a smiling, rock-hopping cephalopod into polished marble and bronze.

Intelligent and mysterious, an octopus emerged from Ojanen’s menagerie of bizarre...

A new collaboration with Joakim Ojanen transfigures a smiling, rock-hopping cephalopod into polished marble and bronze.

Intelligent and mysterious, an octopus emerged from Ojanen’s menagerie of bizarre characters as the perfect subject for his first foray in marble. Happy, perhaps unnervingly so, the 8-legged creature looks out from its titular stone – content with being a static observer to the ceaseless passage of time.

“I see my human figures as self portraits, more or less, but the octopus is my friend. A true trooper who will stay by my side in any weather.”

Natural veining running through the pink and green marble lends each sculpture its own unique character, set off by the patina formed gradually on its bronze adornments. The premise of a stone sculpture, sitting on a stone, embodies the wry humour found throughout Ojanen’s practice.

  
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Edition details
Dimensions
44.7cm x 25.0cm x 18.0cm
Medium
Carved and polished Portuguese Pink and Guatemalan Green marble sculpture with cast bronze details. Bronze elements are untreated, and therefore likely to darken over time.
Release date
March 14, 2023
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