Fragment of the Dreaming Horizon

A 1982 modernist sculpture fragment, an object rendered in hand-carved, chalky off-white ceramic resin, echoing the structural silhouette and broken, jagged edges of a weathered Byzantine ivory relief. The object retains the form of an architectural capital, featuring small, high-relief sculpted heads and figures embedded in its sides, distorted and archaic in their configuration. The surface, however, is dramatically transformed into a vibrant, high-fashion silk screen print aesthetic characteristic of the early 1980s. The piece is coated in a glossy, slightly craquelé...