Dimitri Hadzi "Bronze Sculpture"
Danese Corey
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As exclusive representative of the estate of Dimitri Hadzi, Danese presents gallery’s first exhibition of the artist’s sculpture.
Like many of his contemporaries, Hadzi successfully reconciled complex emotional subject matter within the canon of mid-twentieth-century abstraction. Hadzi was ever conscious of classical prototypes and was profoundly inspired by the work of Polycleitos and Praxiteles, and Renaissance artists such as Ghiberti, Donatello and Michelangelo.
In an interview with Albert Elsen he reflected on the importance of the twenty-five years he spent in Rome: I was interested in mythology, and I was interested in movement... I was attempting through formal methods to exaggerate sexual tension or apprehension. Suddenly I was myself in an atmosphere of freedom.1
The artistic liberation he experienced in Europe extended over the course of his career and is manifest in the diversity and dynamism of his surface textures and complex patinas. In sculptures such as Thebes III, Thermopylae, and Naxian Object, passages of the bronze material remain unadulterated in their rough, original state adding to the sensuality that has always been a central feature in his work.
Hadzi’s sculpture and its references to antiquity and classical artifacts are the stuff of Homeric legend—abstracted anatomical forms, helmets, implements of battle and body armor, columns, and primal tools such as blades, hammers and axes deepen the aesthetic experience of these works and function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.
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from May 02, 2008 to June 14, 2008