just like the other
Two men with the same look and feel sit on a bench and looking relaxed in another direction. This is what I would want. For example, when I would have a twin brother.
I don t compete with my twin. He is bald like me, wears the same clothes, has the same eyes as I have. But it is nice to leave all the competition. We are good as we are. The only thing we do is looking.
We are looking concentrated and relax in front of us. We look at the other. We see at the movements of the others how they feel. We move ourselves to the other. In our minds we feel like the others.
Than the most surprising discoveries come; that we recognize feelings, thoughts and actions eventhough people are different. That we can do the same. In mind we practice that we respond the same way as the other, if another says something to us or makes a gesture to us. It will show then that we talk, think, feel and do exactly like the other person.
precies als de ander Twee mannen met dezelfde look and feel zitten op een bankje en kijken relaxed elk een andere kant op. Dit zou ik ook graag willen. Bijvoorbeeld als ik een tweeling zou zijn.
Ik concurreer niet met mijn tweelingbroer. Hij is kaal zoals ik, draagt dezelfde kleding, heeft dezelfde ogen zoals ik. Wat heerlijk om alle concurrentie los te laten. We zijn goed zoals we zijn. Het enige dat wij doen is kijken.
Wij kijken geconcentreerd en ontspannen voor ons uit. We kijken naar de ander. We zien aan de bewegingen van de anderen hoe zij zich voelen. We verplaatsen ons. In gedachten voelen wij hetzelfde als de anderen.
Dan komen wij tot de meest verrassende ontdekkingen; dat wij gevoelens, gedachten en handelingen herkennen ook al zijn mensen verschillend. Dat wij hetzelfde kunnen doen. In gedachten oefenen wij ook om te reageren zoals de ander, mocht de ander iets tegen ons zeggen of naar ons een gebaar maken. Het zal blijken dat wij dan precies op dezelfde manier praten, denken, voelen, doen als de ander. www.canarywharf.com:
Giles Penny s Two Men on a Bench is a large bronze work in the classical figurative tradition, which has a contemplative air as well as an element of fun. Simplified surfaces and contours imbue it with a monumental presence and narrative sculptural language.
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Two men on a bench is one of the finest sculptural works by Giles Penny, the larger version of which stands in Cabot Square in Canary Wharf, London.
Formerly trained in painting, Penny often initiates his ideas from painting or lithography, which he then develops at a later stage into sculptures. This sense of illustration can be seen in the present work, where the artist beautifully simplifies the forms of the two figures, delineating their facial features through a series of carved marks and careful mouldings. Two men on a bench is wonderfully symmetrical with the two figures sitting side by side, looking away from each other, the soft organic curves of their forms, unifying the two figures. Cast in a grey patina there is something tranquil about the present work with the figures deep in contemplation.
Such treatment of the figure is recurrent in Penny s work, with the artist utilising the human figure as a vehicle for his emotions. Manipulating and abstracting the human form Penny instils a great sense of expression within his sculptures, often portraying an innocent humorous quality to his work, as seen here.
I don t compete with my twin. He is bald like me, wears the same clothes, has the same eyes as I have. But it is nice to leave all the competition. We are good as we are. The only thing we do is looking.
We are looking concentrated and relax in front of us. We look at the other. We see at the movements of the others how they feel. We move ourselves to the other. In our minds we feel like the others.
Than the most surprising discoveries come; that we recognize feelings, thoughts and actions eventhough people are different. That we can do the same. In mind we practice that we respond the same way as the other, if another says something to us or makes a gesture to us. It will show then that we talk, think, feel and do exactly like the other person.
precies als de ander Twee mannen met dezelfde look and feel zitten op een bankje en kijken relaxed elk een andere kant op. Dit zou ik ook graag willen. Bijvoorbeeld als ik een tweeling zou zijn.
Ik concurreer niet met mijn tweelingbroer. Hij is kaal zoals ik, draagt dezelfde kleding, heeft dezelfde ogen zoals ik. Wat heerlijk om alle concurrentie los te laten. We zijn goed zoals we zijn. Het enige dat wij doen is kijken.
Wij kijken geconcentreerd en ontspannen voor ons uit. We kijken naar de ander. We zien aan de bewegingen van de anderen hoe zij zich voelen. We verplaatsen ons. In gedachten voelen wij hetzelfde als de anderen.
Dan komen wij tot de meest verrassende ontdekkingen; dat wij gevoelens, gedachten en handelingen herkennen ook al zijn mensen verschillend. Dat wij hetzelfde kunnen doen. In gedachten oefenen wij ook om te reageren zoals de ander, mocht de ander iets tegen ons zeggen of naar ons een gebaar maken. Het zal blijken dat wij dan precies op dezelfde manier praten, denken, voelen, doen als de ander. www.canarywharf.com:
Giles Penny s Two Men on a Bench is a large bronze work in the classical figurative tradition, which has a contemplative air as well as an element of fun. Simplified surfaces and contours imbue it with a monumental presence and narrative sculptural language.
www.christies.com:
Two men on a bench is one of the finest sculptural works by Giles Penny, the larger version of which stands in Cabot Square in Canary Wharf, London.
Formerly trained in painting, Penny often initiates his ideas from painting or lithography, which he then develops at a later stage into sculptures. This sense of illustration can be seen in the present work, where the artist beautifully simplifies the forms of the two figures, delineating their facial features through a series of carved marks and careful mouldings. Two men on a bench is wonderfully symmetrical with the two figures sitting side by side, looking away from each other, the soft organic curves of their forms, unifying the two figures. Cast in a grey patina there is something tranquil about the present work with the figures deep in contemplation.
Such treatment of the figure is recurrent in Penny s work, with the artist utilising the human figure as a vehicle for his emotions. Manipulating and abstracting the human form Penny instils a great sense of expression within his sculptures, often portraying an innocent humorous quality to his work, as seen here.