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The Most Beautiful of all Mothers (II) – Hippo

Adrián Villar Rojas2015

Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea

Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
Rivoli, Italy

Hippo, the homonymous animal is portrayed while carrying a heavy load to safety, including the appearance of a giraffe. Both described with realistic precision, the two animals are however made of strongly different materials, almost as if they inhabited two distinct worlds. While the hippopotamus is made of fiberglass - the same material often used for the construction of boats - traces of organic matter are visible in the giraffe, including bones, earth, waste, but also fragments of glass, cement and pigments. Like a vision coming from a near future, the work seems to allude to further dramatic migrations about to upset our planet.
Hippo is part of a series of eighteen sculptures depicting other resin animals including a gorilla, a gazelle, a rhinoceros, as part of a series entitled The most Beautiful of All Mothers.

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  • Title: The Most Beautiful of all Mothers (II) – Hippo
  • Creator: Adrian Villar Rojas
  • Date Created: 2015
  • Location Created: Rivoli, Italy
  • Physical Dimensions: 300 x 300 x 220 cm
  • Rights: Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT on loan to Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea

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