Boy and a New Life Form

Technique: Charcoal, resin, pyrite.
Size: 70 × 50 × 60 cm.

“… The sculpture of the boy is inspired by the plastic art of the German Middle Ages, where the boy is often depicted seated with an apple or a sphere in his hands. He is a mediator between God and Man and gives Man blessings from God. There are many different styles of depicting the image of the boy according to the canons of medieval religious art. My approach is relatively naturalistic. One of the important factors is the material I used, that is, charcoal. In alchemy the lowest form is black and the highest is golden. I made the human figure in black, because with all the emotions and passions, pain and suffering that a person has to endure, he belongs to the lowest form. We all must die so that the highest form – the golden one – may exist…”