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Mask and Figure
View through National Gallery of Denmark
‘To me, the work with the mask constitutes an attempt to find
and preserve our human face in the midst of our inhumane
society,’ stated Sonja Ferlov Mancoba.
Ferlov Mancoba’s mask sculptures often possess a
certain frontal rigidity. She saw them as transitional figures
that contained something human and non-human alike –
something behind or outside of humanity’s earthly existence.
In Mask and Figure, Ferlov Mancoba’s last major
mask sculpture, the dual nature of the mask is a main theme:
a figure holds out a mask like another face or a doubling of
the figure’s own body. The mask is simultaneously a symbol
of the universally human and a kind of deity that can remind
us humans of the limits of our own individual projects and
of our own lives. Ferlov Mancoba had a higher purpose with
her sculptures. She saw them as bearers of an ideological,
spiritual or humanitarian message (50 Favorites in the SMK Collection).
Title: Mask and Figure
Description:
‘To me, the work with the mask constitutes an attempt to find
and preserve our human face in the midst of our inhumane
society,’ stated Sonja Ferlov Mancoba.
Ferlov Mancoba’s mask sculptures often possess a
certain frontal rigidity.
She saw them as transitional figures
that contained something human and non-human alike –
something behind or outside of humanity’s earthly existence.
In Mask and Figure, Ferlov Mancoba’s last major
mask sculpture, the dual nature of the mask is a main theme:
a figure holds out a mask like another face or a doubling of
the figure’s own body.
The mask is simultaneously a symbol
of the universally human and a kind of deity that can remind
us humans of the limits of our own individual projects and
of our own lives.
Ferlov Mancoba had a higher purpose with
her sculptures.
She saw them as bearers of an ideological,
spiritual or humanitarian message (50 Favorites in the SMK Collection).
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