Ottmar Hörl:
3 sculptures "Sponti Dwarfs" in a set
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ars mundi exclusive edition | limited, 199 exemplars | serially numbered | signed | metal cast in various versions | Format 7 x 15 x 5 cm (W/H/D) | weight - 1.1 - 1.3 kg
Dwarf got his special affection. The conceptual and action artist Ottmar Hörl got cross-border attention and recognition for them. With his spectacular large installations in open places, the professor and president of the Art Academy in Nurnberg has as goal forcing the dialogue and the confrontation with the tension field of art and nature.
So, in 1994, in Seligenstadt, based on his Installation "Flying Change", displayed one thousand blue "Sponti Dwarfs" - known also as finger-flashing garden dwarfs - leaving them individually or in group formations, to their own fate. Their gradual disappearance was desired by this. For Ottmar Hörl this is no transfer of ownership, rather the transfer from public to private area, a position change fully along the line of "Flying Change". Anyway, modern times cannot claim the creation of the finger flashing gesture. It was already known in ancient Rome.
ars mundi issued the "Sponti Dwarfs" in a serially numbered and signed exclusive edition of 199 exemplars each. Three versions in metal cast, gold plated (24 carat), solber plated and bronzed. Format 7 x 15 x 5 cm (W/H/D) each. Gold and bronze plated versions: Weight ca. 1.3 kg. Silver plated version: Weight ca. 1.1 kg.
This 3-piece set of “Sponti Dwarfs" consists of one exemplar each in gold-plated, silver plated and bronzed version.
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Ottmar Hörl: 3 sculptures "Sponti Dwarfs" in a set
Dwarf got his special affection. The conceptual and action artist Ottmar Hörl got cross-border attention and recognition for them. With his spectacular large installations in open places, the professor and president of the Art Academy in Nurnberg has as goal forcing the dialogue and the confrontation with the tension field of art and nature.
So, in 1994, in Seligenstadt, based on his Installation "Flying Change", displayed one thousand blue "Sponti Dwarfs" - known also as finger-flashing garden dwarfs - leaving them individually or in group formations, to their own fate. Their gradual disappearance was desired by this. For Ottmar Hörl this is no transfer of ownership, rather the transfer from public to private area, a position change fully along the line of "Flying Change". Anyway, modern times cannot claim the creation of the finger flashing gesture. It was already known in ancient Rome.
ars mundi issued the "Sponti Dwarfs" in a serially numbered and signed exclusive edition of 199 exemplars each. Three versions in metal cast, gold plated (24 carat), solber plated and bronzed. Format 7 x 15 x 5 cm (W/H/D) each. Gold and bronze plated versions: Weight ca. 1.3 kg. Silver plated version: Weight ca. 1.1 kg.
This 3-piece set of “Sponti Dwarfs" consists of one exemplar each in gold-plated, silver plated and bronzed version.