Bronze, Glas, Höhe 50 cm, signiert und nummeriert, 180 x 110 cm. (DRAX)

Nummer 5 der limitierten Edition von 8 Exemplaren. Dylan Lewis ist Bildhauer und bekannt für seine Tierbronzen. Daneben entwickelte er aus seinen skulpturalen Arbeiten heraus eine kleine Gruppe von Objekten an der Schnittstelle von Kunst und Design.

"The hand grasps the world it creates. In serving its master, it reflects his being, as if through a mirror, in a thousand and one ways." (Dylan Lewis)

"As the servant of our bodies and the instrument of our minds, the hand has always been part of our physical and intellectual life; reacting exactly to every tremor of emotion, responding to outside stimuli faster than we can speak. It's story is an index of the story of the human race." (Walter Sorell, The Story of the Human Hand)

Lewis' primary inspiration is wilderness. At one level his bronze sculptures celebrate the power and movement of Africa's life forms; at another the textures he creates speak of the continents primeval, rugged landscapes and their ancient rhythms. He works intensively from life, filling books with sketches, notes and drawings. By referring to these in the solitude of his studio, he is able to reproduce the subject's physical form while exploring their more abstract, deeper meaning. Nurtured by a family of artists and inspired by his mother and grandmother, Dylan Lewis first became a painter and it was only after the death of his father, well known sculptor Robin Lewis that he started to explore sculpture.