Arrangement
2023
This striking sculpture by Tony Matelli presents an inverted bouquet of red and white tipped tulips radiating outward from a white cylindrical vase, the blooms and stems cascading in multiple directions as though frozen mid spill. The work is rendered in painted bronze, stainless steel, and epoxy with extraordinary trompe loeil fidelity, capturing the delicate veining of petals and the supple curve of stems in rigid cast metal. Matelli is celebrated for hyperrealistic sculptures that probe the boundary between the animate and inanimate, and this piece exemplifies that tension through its botanical subject suspended in impossible equilibrium. It is a unique work accompanied by two Certificates of Authenticity and is hand signed by the artist.
- Medium
- Painted bronze, stainless steel, epoxy
- Dimensions
- Signed
- Yes
Notes
Listed as Sold. Unique work (not an edition). Condition: Mint. Certificate of Authenticity: two included, one issued by gallery and one issued by authorized authenticating body. Signature: hand-signed by artist.
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Artists in conversation
Duane Hanson
American · b. 1925
Hanson pioneered hyperrealistic cast sculpture using painted polyester resin and mixed media to achieve trompe loeil fidelity in depicting everyday subjects, directly paralleling Matelli's approach of rendering ordinary objects in bronze with uncanny lifelike precision.
Katharine Morling
British · b. 1972
Morling creates ceramic sculptures of flowers and botanicals frozen in arrested, gravity defying arrangements that challenge material expectations, sharing Matelli's interest in capturing organic floral forms in rigid sculptural media with theatrical visual tension.
Peter Gronquist
American · b. 1979
Gronquist produces meticulously painted and fabricated sculptures of natural and consumer objects rendered with hyperrealistic surface detail in unexpected materials, closely mirroring Matelli's practice of transforming familiar organic subjects into uncanny cast and painted metal forms.
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