Gudmar Olovson
Gudmar Olovson, sculpture. Signed. Numbered. Foundry mark. Bronze, total height 57 cm, length 43 cm.
"Captivité" (Captivity). Signed Gudmar. Numbered 1/10. Foundry mark A Valsuani cire perdue. Bronze, dark patina. Height 53.5 cm (including stone base 57 cm), length 43 cm, width 25 cm. The motif conceived 1968.
Insignificant surface dirt. A pair of minor stretch marks (cracks), a pair minor scratchmarks, some patina rubbed off.
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Captive, captive…I want to cut my fetters.
I go through life with painfully angry lips.
My abysses, why do I enquire into you, you deserve no name.
Bronze joins itself to bronze and becomes a human being,
and the human being has iron in its heart.
But does the bronze really have this frightening gleam on its brow
from the god of the lightnings?
I throw my heart on the roadway, let the vultures devour it –
the full moon will bear me a new one.
Edith Södergran
Captivité – Captivity
This work was inspired by the Finnish poet Edith Södergran’s poem.
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