War Coffin, 1994

Category: Sculpture

Artist: Maggi Hambling

Subject: Sculpture

Year of Work: 1994

Media: bronze

Size: 20.27" x 20.27" x 8.26"

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War Coffin is an indictment of aggression. War is always going on somewhere. When the piece is rocked, the suspended heads of the victims make strange harmonies when they touch.

Hambling started making sculptures of coffins because they were part of a list of instructions she had written to herself in a sketchbook in September 1993. She had already come across Etruscan sculpture: small rectangular urns containing the ashes of dead people with highly animated portraits of them alive, lolling about on the lids.

This picture is also featured in, 'Maggi Hambling, the Works' by Andrew Lambirth. Book available from this website. See publications page.

author: iapmag

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