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HYBIRD, 2024
Price
€7,200
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Medium
bronze sculpture
Technique
lost wax casting
Dimensions
15 × 42.5 × 16 cm
Year
2024
Edition
Edition 3/12
About the Work
“A work juxtaposing elements of evolutionary and mechanical engineering, exploring our relationship with nature—our eagerness to learn from it and our need to respect it rather than dominate it. The work’s title — a simple anagram of the word ‘hybrid’ plays to its organic-mechanical fusion. The sculpture is also a homage to Sir Frank Whittle the English aviation engineer and pilot who invented the jet engine. The first practical test of the jet engine took place on April 12, 1937. Whittle’s test site and works where based in Lutterworth, England where J J Walker worked as a graphic designer for a time and where he was inspired by this aviation visionary.”
Artist
JJ WALKER
View Profileb. 1965, England
JJ Walker (b. 1965, England) is a Surrealist artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans bronze, wood, and canvas. A First Class Honors graduate in Information Graphics, his career is distinguished by a residency at the historic Studio 46 Barcelona—the workshop of Joan Barbarà associated with the legacies of Picasso, Miró, and Dalí. Featured in Forbes Spain, Walker exhibits his work extensively across Europe through a prestigious network of international galleries.