Artwork details
- Medium : Plaster Without Stand
- Dimensions : Length: 19.3in, Height: 19.3in, Depth: 5.1in
About this artwork
Utopia imagines a city, where architecture has escaped rigid forms in favour of hemispherical structures that echo natural growth. These rounded, mushroom-like shapes suggest a society more attuned to nature and liberated from materialism.
The unusual geometry challenges conventional ideas of dwelling and community. Each hemisphere emerges as an individual yet interconnected entity, reflecting both intimacy and collective possibility. Handcrafted… in plaster of Paris, the forms carry a tactile sense of fragility and resilience.
Utopia invites the viewer to inhabit a vision of the future that is both alien and familiar, playful and radical, and to reflect on how environment shapes human experience over time.
The unusual geometry challenges conventional ideas of dwelling and community. Each hemisphere emerges as an individual yet interconnected entity, reflecting both intimacy and collective possibility. Handcrafted… in plaster of Paris, the forms carry a tactile sense of fragility and resilience.
Utopia invites the viewer to inhabit a vision of the future that is both alien and familiar, playful and radical, and to reflect on how environment shapes human experience over time.
Manuel Ursprung
Germany
Credentials
- Established Artist
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« It’s my way of expressing and re-creating captured memories, ideas and immortal aesthetics through art. »
Manuel Ursprung is a German-born, British-based artist whose sculptural reliefs trace an arc from delicate plaster imprints to more tactile, transformative works in latex. Drawing on travel and memory, his pieces explore the tension between containment and emergence, reimagining the relationship between surface, form and becoming.