Artwork details
- Medium : Plastic, Cast Iron Without Stand
- Dimensions : Length: 20.1in, Height: 9.4in, Depth: 4.7in
About this artwork
This metal and mixed media sculpture delves into the human condition, exploring the primal motivations of self-obsession, auto-biography, and the desire for self-expression. Through a stylistic approach that emphasizes posing and posture, the artwork merges various characters and showcases the diversity of human beings. It is a commentary on the act of showing off and the spectacle of seeing and being seen, examining the way in which we present ourselves…
to others, revealing our carefully crafted shells and feathers. Whether man, woman, or child, the sculpture provides a psychological portrait of humanity, a search for the essence of what makes us human.
Johan P. Jonsson
Sweden
Credentials
- International Exposure
- Experienced Artist
« I'm interested in contradictions … Putting contradictory pieces together: colors, shapes that don't fit. Basically, that's what I do: I like putting things together; ugly things, broken, things that don't fit… »
Johan P. Jonsson is an experienced Swedish sculptor who’s exhibited in France, Norway, Sweden, the US. His sculptures explore postures and poses of people, and interactions between them; displaying influences from outsider art and working in metal and mixed media.