Judas (1963), loaned by Yorkshire Sculpture Park, is a figurative embodiment of betrayal and a demonstration of Frink’s ability to convey the nature of Man. Sculptures which include her Riace figures, Running Man, Judas and Seated Man, which have never before been shown together in this country. It highlights her almost unique insight – as a female sculptor – into the dichotomy of masculinity and of Man’s capability for cruelty as well as compassion and includes works made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, when Frink was in the height of her artistic prowess. This exhibition allows for a contemporary reflection on the duality of masculinity and the contrasts and conflicts that it entails, whilst also revealing the timelessness of Frink’s expressionist figurative oeuvre. “I think the male obsession with power is something they have been brought up with,” Frink said in an interview with Kent, “it is put upon them.” Feico Hosktra “believed that traditional patterns of expectation had a lot to do with the fact that men tend to be more fixated on power than women. It presages how her work continues to be resonant of her time as well as function as a carapace to our contemporary concerns. The exhibition explores axioms of tension, threat, intensity and mankind’s atavistic tendencies within Frink’s figurative representational sculpture. Loaned from various institutions and private collectors, it was first exhibited at the Gerhard Marcks Haus Museum in Bremen, Germany. Man is an Animal is the most extensive collection of large-scale sculptures by Dame Elisabeth Frink shown in this country since the artist’s death in April 1993. That is its main value: to make people aware of all sorts of different areas of their minds.” Elisabeth Frink interviewed by Sarah Kent, 1992 One of the most important things about art – and I don’t mean sculpture, I mean all the arts – is that it must be a civilising influence. ![]() “I think all art is an instrument of change through awareness. The gallery will be closed for a private event Friday 3 – Sunday 5 December 2021 Dame Elisabeth Frink RA (1930 – 1993) Man is an Animal
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