This is another untypical work which reconfirms the author’s liking for non-traditional materials. A golden mole on a meteorite caught the interest of the artistic public and, in particular, of collectors of rare artefacts, which the Mole surely was.
The work on the Mole itself took almost a year. It was very challenging and constantly demanding new solutions for subtle and precise modelling, or for joining the many golden parts into an integral skeleton. The meteorite on which the Mole is exposed comes, like the Monaco artefact, from Campo del Cielo and is more than 6000 years old.
The author himself perceives his work primarily as a multi-layered symbol of the world. The Mole symbolizes nature and cosmos. The meteorite is the origin of life. Gold stands for stability and wealth on the Earth. The skeleton symbolises death, the terminal stage of our existence.
The “Mole for Sale” exhibition premiered more than six years ago in River Gallery in Bratislava.
Bon Bone
Súčasťou prezentácie Mole for Sale v Bratislave bola kolekcia unikátnych šperkov zostavených z jednotlivých častí kostry krtka. Zlatý náhrdelník Bon bone je vlastne krtkova panvová časť, precízne vymodelovaná a odliata špeciálnou laserovou technológiou. Vyhotovenie Bon bone a vôbec všetkých šperkových objektov z krtkovej kostry bolo pre autora veľká výzva.