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Pavlína KvitaHAPI by Pavlína Kvita - Contemporary sculpture, large scale, yellow2024
2024
$23,717.17
£17,735.11
€19,800
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HAPI is a sculpture by Czech artist Pavlína Kvita. Dimensions are 225 × 85 × 50 cm (88.5 × 33.4 × 19.6 in). This work is a unique piece and is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. This sculpture can be exhibited outdoors.
This sculpture is a reimagining of the golden calf through the lens of the artist’s own symbolic universe. The golden calf—described in the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran—was an idol created by the Israelites during Moses’ absence on Mount Sinai, an event often referred to as “the sin of the calf.” It represents a pivotal moment of disobedience and misplaced faith. Its imagery echoes a broader cultural context, as bull worship was widespread throughout the ancient Near East, from Egypt’s Apis to the Canaanite sacred bull of El.
In this series, Pavlína Kvita delves into a theme that is at once universal and intimate: mythology. Her sculptural language draws from ancient traditions, particularly Slavic and Wallachian legends. She approaches these sacred narratives with admiration, reinterpreting them to forge a mythology of her own. Each of us carries beliefs that shape inner forms waiting to surface, and Kvita gives these forms a body—blending zoomorphic and humanoid elements into shapes that are massive yet organic, geometric yet fluid. These esoteric, protective beings inhabit a space between the animate and the inanimate, embodying and guarding our personal mythologies.
Kvita’s sculptures emerge from an introspective process, resulting in enigmatic figures whose silhouettes feel both archaic and futuristic. Whether anthropomorphic or zoomorphic, these silent presences—outside any precise sense of time—assert themselves in space with a fusion of power and equilibrium, heightened by dynamic, streamlined lines that lean toward abstraction. Her work is the culmination of a cyclical process of creation, transformation, and destruction, a dialogue she establishes with matter as she tests the limits and possibilities of form.
- Creator:Pavlína Kvita (1988, Czech)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 88.59 in (225 cm)Width: 33.47 in (85 cm)Depth: 19.69 in (50 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU803117353932
Pavlína Kvita
The sculptures of the Czech artist Pavlína Kvita come to life from the exploration of her inner world, resulting in the creation of mysterious figures with forms that are both archaic and futuristic. These anthropomorphic or zoomorphic creatures, silent presences outside of time, impose themselves in space with a blend of strength and balance, conferred on them by their dynamic, streamlined lines, tending towards abstraction. Pavlína Kvita’s sculptures are the end result of a circular process of creation/transformation/destruction which the artist establishes with the material, manipulating shapes and their infinite possibilities. “I really need to feel the work in my hands, to find it by breaking it down and destroying it, and then rebuilding it again. For me it is a process of destruction and creation, just like the process we see at work in life.”
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