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  • traveling hair
    Terra Cotta
    13" x 14" x 9"
  • Aloha
    Terra Cotta
    15" x 10" x 8"
  • lost memories
    Terra Cotta
    14" x 19" x 11"
  • Waiting
    Terra Cotta
    15" x 9" x 14"
  • time machine
    Terra Cotta
    14" x 15" x 7"

Ninos ChammoNinos Chammo

Ninos Chammo

Figuratively Speaking
February 20 - March 13, 2007 Reception: Thursday February 22, 2007 6-8 PM

Press Release

Assyrian-born Ninos Chammo calls his sculptures “an interactive message,” and if the dialogue is between artist and viewer, it is equally between artist and heritage. Chammo’s years of study in Florence, including the Academia Delle Belle Arti, have influenced his sculptural eye to a remarkable degree. Working in carmine and burgundy terra cotta and wood, Chammo reworks classical busts, and invests traditional forms with renewed power. Like the classical marble works that inspired him, Chammo’s busts often depict figures of royalty, yet they are framed and supported by avian claws, wings and massive horns. His terra cotta Gilgamesh and Ankido reinterprets the ancient tale to produce a potent response to the myth of eternal life and eternal friendship. In Lost Memories, symbols are carved into the very muscles of the arms and chest of the subject. Memories are not lost at all, but preserved in the body, and, for Chammo, rediscovered in the sculpted medium. These figures are totems, or we have caught them in the moment of morphing between human and animal. Whatever the interpretation of these vibrant works, with his injection of a modern edge into classical forms, Chammo’s dialogue with ancient themes is exuberant.



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Время работы: Вторник-Суббота, 11-18
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