Spiders impress with their eight eyes and eight legs. Their webs are architectural marvels – their hunting techniques are bizarre and unique. Their vibratory sense serves as an extremely creative sense of hearing, and their species diversity runs into the tens of thousands.
Measuring over three metres in length, two metres in width and a good seventy metres in height, the hand-polished brass-bronze sculpture “Thrilling 8” is
impressive and powerful. Hand-hammered and modelled, it has the incorruptible quality of sculpture
The eight eyes cast out of glass, differently coloured with pigments, are fascinating, being realized in “lost form”, set in bronze and gilded by hand. For completion, cameras are used in four eyes to simulate the 360 degree view of the spider in a room of 6 x 6 metres. Thus, the viewers are captured and projected into the room to observe themselves. “Thrilling 8” reflects society’s surveillance mania.
A play of skilful craftsmanship and the art of extravagant presentation, coupled with the touch of a jewel.
Thrilling 8
Measurements: 75 x 45cm
Kohlrabi needs between eight and ten weeks from seed to finished fruit. It is generally considered
a cheap vegetable, although it is rich in vitamin C and contains very important nutrients that
we need every day – it is, in other words, food for life.
This was the key inspiration to create a homage to the miracle of seed and fruit in the form of a
sculpture measuring 75x45 cm. Symbolic of a “valuable” food for life. A brass-bronze alloy kohlrabi
modelled and hammered by hand. Hand polished several times, matt blasted, leaves and
veins finely polished with specially made tools, 24 carat gold plated and finally finely polished
several times. To realise this work, it was necessary to collaborate with specialists who refine
interiors for Bugatti and Rolls Royce.
The whole working process took over two years to complete this sculpture perfectly. At the
same time, this is also the demand I make on my thinking, artistic work and my works.
Golden Kohlrabi
Brass / Bronze
Measurements: 15 x 15 x 30cm
hammered and shaped by hand.
Base piano lacquer.
The “amygdala” forms part of the limbic system in our brain. It regulates emotional reactions,
stores memory content and analyses potential dangers. A reflection that is not unknown to me
- from my personal life experience and in my work. This also gave rise to the idea for this work.
Intuitively, I succeeded in linking this sculpture to the theme of perception in reference to my
preferred style epoch of “Art Deco”.
Brass-bronze alloy, hand-hammered and modelled, specially lacquered. The base is finished with
piano lacquer.
Amygdala
Soil and its fertility – a generous host for all beings. It’s in our nature. The symbiosis between
humans, fauna and flora, seed and food – we are lucky to have this diversity and lushness.
But the future may not be this lucky, because humans have changed, have expelled themselves
from this paradise. Manically driven to change, manipulate and destroy. Money, greed and power
at any price. For too long, they have left their destructive traces in the shape of burnt earth.
Yet the brown hare is a stubborn little fellow. In art it also embodies rebirth and resurrection.
It is a symbol of fertility and sensual pleasure. It has many friends and there are more every
day. What matters to them is to cultivate the “field” of the future with empathy and diligence. To
preserve the symbiosis between humans, fauna and flora. And to redefine our work together
in order to create quality of life in the future as well, space for everyone and everything.
The total work of art also includes a classically composed piece of music based on the well-known
“Flight of the Bumblebee”. In further dialogue, a fairy tale is created to bring children closer to
nature and to be an inspiration for future generations.
BROWN HARE´s FIELD
Brass-bronze
325 x 200 x 200 cm
Hand-forged, chased,
ground and polished by hand
The brass plates were shaped with endless hammer strokes, polished, chiselled and then finepolished
by hand. The result: A three-metre high monument whose every meticulously formed
groove, recess and gnarled shape reflects its 500-year history. It is the history of a tree rooted
in the same spot for centuries, never the centre of attention and yet always right there. A special
wax polishing technique is used to make the brass/bronze olive tree shimmer like gold to
symbolise the endless abundance of nature.
This olive tree also visualises the roots of history – the deeper and the further back we go, the
more exciting it gets. This is the only way to show just how important a role time plays in human
life and in nature. It is only when we imagine ourselves on the streets of ancient Pompeii that
we can properly understand where we came from and why we must absolutely be led by nature
and must use, not exploit, it.
The “Olive Tree Pompeii” reflects the events of the last centuries and the events taking place in
the present and is a symbol of the endless power and beauty of nature.
OLIVE TREE POMPEII
Aluminium-brass-bronze
285 x 80 x 80 cm
Hand-forged, ground, polished,
special glaze according to own recipe,
multiple coats of lacquer, ground, polished
Stem and leaves forged, chased
and plated with 24-carat gold
CONCERTO DI POMODORI
Wood-brass-bronze
23.5 x 17.5 x 17.5 cm
Hand-turned, ground, polished,
special glaze according to own recipe,
multiple coats of lacquer, ground, polished
Stem and leaves forged, chased
and plated with 24-carat gold
PETITE MARMANDE
Tomato “Marmande” Brass-bronze hand-hammered
67 x 85cm
Sanded, varnished and polished
Stem and leaves 24-carat gilded
Weight 20kg
MARMANDE LA GRANDE
2024
Brass-bronze
Maße: 55 x 30 x 100cm
Hammered, shaped, polished and ground
NADīTU
2024
Brass-bronze
Maße: 55 x 37 x 70cm
Hammered and shaped, painted in six passes, sanded (vintage look patina)
DOUBLE LIP
2024
Brass-bronze
Maße: 56 x 60cm (the spikes are 30cm)
Hammered, shaped, polished and ground
INFLUENCE 7
Mix technique on piano finish
with leaf gold
132 x 231 cm
Frame: Snake skin, brass •
Back: Colonel leather
Better men
Jonty Hurwitz
Bronze, walnut wood, parabolic mirror
70 x 70 x 120 cm
#1 of 9
Using parabolic mathematics, this work conveys the effect that the perception of society has on our self-image.
BODY OBSESSED WORLD
Alu/chrome varnish
195 x 43 x 21 cm
Pod and peas manually forged, double-walled, ground, varnished and polished •
Wooden pedestal from palisander wood
PRINCESS
Marble
10.3 x 5.5 cm
Grenade: carved from marble •
Fuse different colours •
Chrome stainless steel varnished •
Pedestal: 13 x 13 x 5 cm
HANDS OFF
Mix technique on piano finish
260 x 130 cm
Photorealism
The Queen
Brass/bronze
220 x 38 x 105 cm
Secret compartment with scorpion •
Pedestal: Palisander wood, 12 x varnished + polished, 230 x 60 x 65 cm •
Squared timber overlays of the pedestal also in brass/bronze, 90 x 11 x 11 cm •
Manually forged – beaten out and then moulded •
Structure manually finished – polished by hand •
Each individual cartridge manufactured by hand and soldered in •
Brass bar: Wooden structure, manually engraved with steel engraving pen
The story of Little Red Riding Hood as a metaphor in the form of a predator-like set of teeth
with a secret compartment as a throat. Bronze and brass are the high-quality materials for the
beast that seems to devour everything. Hand-hammered, counter-driven and thus brought into
shape - that’s the sculptural process. Elaborately polished by hand in the finishing stage.
A reference to a world that seems threatening and at the same time evil, that seems to devour everything
and at the same time is difficult to fathom. And yet with a spark of human hope at the end,
like in a fairy tale that takes a turn for the better.
A sculpture (220x38x105cm) with proverbial ambiguity that plays creatively and surprisingly,
shockingly yet hopefully with our conventional expectations and memories.
Little Red Riding Hood
Jonty Hurwitz
White bronze
80 x 450 x 250 cm
Cylinder 50 cm
#2 of 5
In the collection of the Savoy, London: “Superstition is an irrational reaction to our lack of understanding.”
The Savoy Cat in White Bronze
Collaboration
Series Nightfall
Size 100 x 100cm
2016
Edition #2/9
The Seduction of lo
Jonty Hurwitz
Bronze
150 x 20 x 40.5 cm
#4 of 9
Self portrait •
The technological singularity is an example of a limit in space-time. The sound barrier, the melting point of iron, the Lagrangian point are just a few other examples.
THE HURWITZ SINGULARITY
Jonty Hurwitz
Bronze, wood, chrome
45 x 40 x 40 cm
Sometimes in life, you fall: In love, in grace, by yourself, in a dream. This is my sculpture of the hand that caught my soul when I fell.
I am forever grateful.
The Hand That Caught Me Falling
Exhibition
Egerner Höfe
“THREE OF A KIND”
11.04.2024 – Ende Mai 2024
RUDOLF BUDJA GALERIE
Salzburg
„Alice im Wunderland“
Easter Exhibition 24
GALERIE KRONSBEIN
München
„Alice im Wunderland“
12.03.2024
Philosophicum Lech 2022
20 September - 25 September 2022
Art Basel/Miami
30 November - 5 December 2021
Rudolf Budja Galerie - Miami/Salzburg
Next Street Gallery - Paris
Modus Art Gallery - Paris
GALERIE DE MEDICIS - Paris
Art Basel/Miami
03.12. - 08.12.2019
Salzburg International Art Fair
10.08. - 18.08.2019