GODDESS VENUS

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Summary:

Year 1975
Bronze sculpture

Author Josip Konta

Limited edition 4/8

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Short description:

Sculpture, patinated bronze:
height 37 cm
width 6 cm
depth 7,5 cm

Plinth, stone travertine, removable:
height 10 cm
width 7,5 cm
depth 8,5 cm

Total weight 3,3 kg

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The weight of the crate is 14 kg, plus a protective filling made of light material.
The total weight of the wooden crate and sculpture is 17,3 kg.

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Short biography:

Josip Konta was born in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on May 18th, 1946. After the High School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, Croatia, in 1972, and post-graduated on the studies as an associate in the master class of Prof. Antun Augustincic from 1972 to 1974. After three years (from 1974 to 1977) as the director of the Art Foundry at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, he lives and works as an independent artist in Zagreb. Fifty years of art work accompanied by a series of solo and group exhibitions that have resulted in artworks that are found in private collections both in Croatia and abroad.

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About sculpture:

For Josip Konta, women are extremely important in life. From his mother, from whom he separated early and headed in life, to his wife, with whom he has been married for almost 50 years. From this relationship arises this sculpture of a woman, named after the goddess Venus, who celebrates a woman.

Main features of Josip Konta's artworks:

The theme of Konta's sculptures is often a critique of alienation and the various states of the human spirit and its position in society. Sculptural techniques, or the imperfect structure of sculptures, symbolically signify the imperfection of human.

This unusual, unnatural incompleteness of the body of Konta's figures, and the emptiness on the body, means acknowledging human vulnerability and weakness, means acknowledging human mortality, the possible inability to confront the coming existentialist questions - who I am and what I am looking for, what I miss, what is it and where is my second me?

Konta's horses represent support for the human being, at the same time symbolizing the human alter ego, the desired better self, but the almost impossible achievable better self.

In Konta's painting, the artist is prone to an expressionist approach in creating characters, colored very measuredly and carefully, and brilliantly supports the atmosphere of volume in which the theme is a range of inner states of the characters who are in anticipation, in boredom, in longing, in dilemma or fear, in love and/or sadness, in all those everyday, but also non-everyday situations

It is important to emphasize, the observer is free to interpret each sculpture as he wishes, it is a matter of personal impression to which the artist gives complete freedom.

Note:

Josip Konta's sculptures made in bronze can be the only original copies limited to eight copies (1/1 - 1/8), and four artist's copies (EA I/IV - IV/IV).