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Hakon Anton Fageras

http://fageras.com/

My emphasis for a lot of years was on simplicity and silence in sculpture – those were the aspects of sculpture that really fascinated me. But now my emphasis has shifted more to expressions of vulnerability and fragility because I find sculpture – and marble sculpture in particular – a very suitable medium to express those concepts.

 Because of the material qualities of marble itself, it appears fragile. It's quite fragile, but it's not that fragile, and yet it appears so because of the translucency and pureness of the stone. But it's also suitable to express these emotional nuances or subtleties because it's very precise.  So I can work on a very precise level. I can work on micro-millimetres, I can model the subtle nuances.  And I think that's fundamental for communicating those emotions. 

http://www.melaniefurtado.com/blog/2018/fageras