Arnie Zimmerman

Zimmerman’s abstract crushed and annexed distortions find context in the presence of the artist’s larger oeuvre, commonly consisting of tableaus of violent or orgiastic movement in figural multiplicity — often similar in complexity and a recognisable humanising and moralising tone to that found in the work of Hieronymous Bosch. This pair of sculptures breaks recognisable identity down to become informal and semi-representative male or female shape, the ceramic — roughly coated in a caustic glaze and cracked in firing — is only truly suggestive of a great stress impressed upon it.

Zimmerman’s abstract crushed and annexed distortions find context in the presence of the artist’s larger oeuvre, commonly consisting of tableaus of violent or orgiastic movement in figural multiplicity — often similar in complexity and a recognisable humanising and moralising tone to that found in the work of Hieronymous Bosch. This pair of sculptures breaks recognisable identity down to become informal and semi-representative male or female shape, the ceramic — roughly coated in a caustic glaze and cracked in firing — is only truly suggestive of a great stress impressed upon it.