Essays

https://doi.org/10.21857/yq32oh4g49

Sculpture in Public Space : (On the need for a new encounter)

Kuzma Kovačić ; Croatian academy of sciences and art, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

“Sculptures in public space, spaces of human communication, are always a means of communication, and sculptors are communicators, mediators. Monuments, as sculptures in public spaces, transfer values to people by communicating something important to the life of the community through the strength of artistic creation. This need will exist so long as humans do, and the art of sculpture along with it, which best and most directly “pronounces” this need, so convincingly that no other manner or form of communication can replace it. It does this through its beauty, its internal harmony that speaks to man through the direct, miraculous speech of the sculpted form, the spiritualised body, relying on the simple truth of man as a spiritual and bodily being. Sculpture finds and draws its strength and communicative efficacy from this truth.”

Keywords

sculpture; public space; architecture; city

Hrčak ID:

220329

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/220329

Publication date:

23.5.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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