Biomorphic Marble Sconce
Designer
Jonathan HansenManufacture
Edition Nove
Circa
2018
Description
Hand-carved by the master artisans of Editions Nove in Northern Italy, Hansen’s ”Biomorphic Sconce” draws inspiration from a second-century Roman sculpture of the human body the artist had come across in the Greek and Roman galleries at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007. This piece is part of a series of functional sculptures and lights that touch upon the question of captivity and freedom, evoking abstract silhouettes of human bodies revealed and freed from the stone block by the stone carver.
Jonathan Hansen
Jonathan Hansen
Born in the United States, artist-designer Jonathan Hansen was raised between Canada, England, and Singapore where he grew his layered, and multi-cultured artistic vocabulary.
Based in New York City today, the designer has built a significant portfolio of contemporary design pieces rooted in the artist’s longstanding fascination for antique Greek and Roman sculptures, as well as the eighteenth and nineteenth-century furniture design — which he studied at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. His deep understanding and genuine interest in craftsmanship techniques inform his design process and material selection.
The designer’s editions with Ateliers Courbet are sculptural, abstract expressions of the human body drawing inspiration from the second-century Greek and Roman sculptures of the human body. The designer has collaborated with artisans throughout Europe in marble, travertine, and bronze to suspend the movement of his design forms.
Jonathan Hansen
Born in the United States, artist-designer Jonathan Hansen was raised between Canada, England, and Singapore where he grew his layered, and multi-cultured artistic vocabulary.
Based in New York City today, the designer has built a significant portfolio of contemporary design pieces rooted in the artist’s longstanding fascination for antique Greek and Roman sculptures, as well as the eighteenth and nineteenth-century furniture design — which he studied at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. His deep understanding and genuine interest in craftsmanship techniques inform his design process and material selection.
The designer’s editions with Ateliers Courbet are sculptural, abstract expressions of the human body drawing inspiration from the second-century Greek and Roman sculptures of the human body. The designer has collaborated with artisans throughout Europe in marble, travertine, and bronze to suspend the movement of his design forms.
