Audio by Tara Sacerdote
Maker: Hans Arp (1886 – 1966)
Culture: French
Title: Torso
Date Made: 1953
Type: Sculpture
Materials: White marble on polished black marble base
Place Made: France
Measurements: 31 x 14 .5 x 13 .5 in
Transcript:
This one is really hard to describe because it’s really weird. But it’s a sculpture made from marble and I just think it’s so cool that people can carve things from marble, from stone, and make them look so smooth and soft and like human. You have to, like, in order to really see the piece you have to walk around it and it looks different from different angles. And so it does so much because it is like many different things in one. So like from one angle, it has this weird like pointy thing, and another angle looks like shoulders. But then my favorite angle is when it has this, like, this round protruding thing and to me that really looks like a belly, and I’m pretty sure it is a belly; that’s just what I’m going to say about it. And it makes me think about, like, being a baby and how sometimes we’re babies inside of bellies, and how, like, every single person was once a baby. And then the other thing is really cool for me to think about is that, for me and my life, my body has the potential to make a baby that then grows into another human. That’s just crazy, you know?