Entanglement (AP)

Bronze, Steel

44 x 110 x 18 cm
Edition of 5, 4 remain + 1AP

2021

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Bo Lanyon’s ‘Entanglement’ explores interconnectedness across multiple states of matter, mediums and concepts.  The knot, appearing to form itself in space, resonates as a visceral and symbolic gesture. It suggests the entangled complexity of emotional and physical existence, with its flowing, rope-like forms evoking organic vitality and internal tension, like guts exposed and captured in raw, fleshy metal. The off-human hands, fingernails polished to a mirror sheen, amplify this duality, reflecting and distorting the observer to draw attention to the interplay of self and other, tangible and abstract. The delicate looping gesture signals acts and attempts of connection and bonding.

This version of the work disrupts traditional notions of sculptural completion or finish through the deliberate exposure of its rainbow weld marks - raw traces of the making process that refuse to hide the labour and imperfection inherent in its creation. These marks, typically polished away to achieve a seamless surface in classical sculpture, remain proudly visible here, embodying a resistance to the ideal of a perfected, resolved object. Instead, the sculpture becomes a record of its own entanglement with process, material and thought.

Titled Entanglement, the work invites multifaceted interpretation, encompassing emotional, material, and even quantum associations. It speaks to the simultaneity of connection and separation, where entities, whether particles, people, or ideas, remain intertwined, their actions affecting one another across distances. This encapsulates the ongoing effort to understand and communicate our interwoven lives, both near and far.