Archaic Form - Bench,
sited in Hazlehead Park Azalea Garden, Aberdeen.
Artist
Horace Farlowe
(Robbins, North Carolina, USA, 1933 - 2006)
Date1996
Object NameSculpture
MediumKemnay and Caran granite
ClassificationsSculptures
Object numberABDCC001162
About MeHorace Farlowe has made stone sculptures all over the world, in places as diverse as Africa, Italy, Scotland, and North Carolina, where he attended University. This piece is meant, as are many of his works, to engage the viewer on many different levels. The abstraction and interplay of positive and negative space allow us to see the sculpture's surroundings in a different light. Farlowe also intended it to be a seat, lessening the physical distance between art and its spectators he saw as so oppressive in gallery settings.
See also http://www.horacefarlowe.com/theartist.html.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Richard Ross Robertson
c. 1979
