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ROMANESQUE HEAD II

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€1.500,00 incl.VATVAT on margin included according to article 297-A of the French General Tax Code

Bronze wall sculpture by Bella Hunt & DDC.

Length : 6.69 in / 17 cm

Height : 9.45 in / 24 cm

Width : 2.36 in / 6 cm

Weigth : 2.2 lb / 1 kg

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Artist: Bella Hunt & DDC

Year of publication: 2022

Materials: Patinated bronze

Manufacture: Artisanal foundry with sand molds. Each mold is unique.

Inspiration: Sculpture representing a bearded mask blowing.

Guarantee of authenticity: Unsigned. Issued with a certificate of authenticity.

Bella Hunt & DDC is an Italian-American duo born in the 1980s.

Behind the simple and deceptively naïve forms of Bella Hunt & Dante di Calce lies the possibility of a society different from our own, based on greater coexistence between beings, great humility and respect for vernacular traditions, for a future that respects the environment. After making pottery and frescoes whose natural pigments were incorporated into a mixture of lime, the American-Italian duo gained momentum, with bronze works and more architectural sculptures. However, their practice remains – this detail counts – on a human scale. Their works speak of a past (or even a future?) common to all humanity. Bowls, arcades and primitive shapes punctuate their creation. A medievalist touch is felt in Bella Hunt & DDC.

Like the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, from which they borrow their names [1], the two artists refer to a world before perspective, to a pre-modern world in which the race for progress was not the main story. However, their dynamics differ from those of the anti-industrial movements of the nineteenth century: Bella Hunt and DDC do not reject progress, but propose that it be outdated. Stop at Ancient Mystic I, a double-sided bow, novel, and pseudo-Phoenician-Egyptian.

Just enjoy it, without planning anything. Admit it, Bella Hunt & DDC let you once again feel the thrill of emotion produced by the discovery of an object patiently made by a past civilization: that thrill lost long ago in contact with the manufactured objects of our daily lives.

Charlotte Cosson and Emmanuelle Luciani

[1] Bella plays with the name of William Hunt, DDC – for Dante di Calce or Dante de la Chaux – refers to Dante Gabriele Rossetti, the most trecentist of the movement

Recent exhibitions (selection):

“The Lady and the Unicorn, Medieval and so Contemporary” (2021) – Musée des Abattoirs, FRAC Toulouse, France
“Gothic revival – A Gothic lounge” – Southway Studio, Marseille, France
“Design Parade” – Villa Noailles, Toulon, France
“Too Fast Too Knight” – A.Romy, Zurich, Switzerland
“History of Fantasy” (2021) – Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
“Interiora Terrae” (2021) – OΔK Gallery Bordeaux, France
“Natura Mutatis I & II” (2021) – OΔK Gallery Toulouse, France
” Anima Mundi” (2020) – Saint Victor Abbey, Marseille, France
“Antique – Rustic” (2020) – A Mano Studio Gallery, Biarritz, France
“The Paths of the South, a Theory of the Miner” (2019) – RMCA Sérignan, France
“Santibelli, dialogue with the Pierre Bergé collection” (2019) – Musée Estrine, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
“Southway, Austin” (2019) – Austin, Texas, USA
“Anima Mundi” (2018), Winner of the Fondation Ricard with Southway Studio and Charlotte Cosson (selected by Neil Beloufa), Paris, France
“Pieta, Sacra conversazione” (2018) – Southway Studio and Charlotte Cosson, Marseille, France
“Domestic, like a pre-Raphaelite brotherhood” (2017) – Truth & Consequences Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
“Pre-Historic” (2017) – Leclere art center, Marseille, France
“Pre-Capital, popular and rural forms in contemporary art” (2017) – La Panacée, Montpellier, with Charlotte Cosson and Nicolas Bourriaud
“Southway” (2016) – Leclere art center, Marseille, cur. by Emmanuelle Luciani & Charlotte Cosson.

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