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Miriam Knibbeler
Ortus (study), 2015
The white rhino is facing extinction. Rather than portraying such a slain creature, sculptor Miriam Knibbeler shows it as a newborn – Ortus is Latin for birth. It is still too fragile to stand on its own two feet. Knibbeler models with partially transparent wax into which she mixes colour pigments.
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Wax resembles the skin of a baby, but also that of a dead person. For Knibbeler, this visible material transience is more important than a one-to-one reproduction of reality.
Text: Chris Reinewald
From: Museum MORE: 100 jaar realisme, 2020, Gorssel
Artist
Miriam Knibbeler
Title
Ortus (study)
Year
2015
Technique
Mixed media
Size
20 x 60 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Sculpture
Copyright
© Miriam Knibbeler
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