Fen de Villiers
@FendeVilliers
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Fine Art Sculptor Passionate about strong aesthetics and powerful archetypes. Challenging aesthetic relativism.
Antwerp, Belgium
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Press, media, men with cameras and soylets standby as this protest is enacted. This is simply setup and allowed, a theatrical performance made possible by museum management. Clear them all out. Start again. They are corrupt beyond belief.
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These exact types head all of the major art institutions and galleries. It becomes clear quickly why culture has remained on a downward slope. Only once these parasitic entities have been shaken off can we truly move forward.
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Prometheus is complete in bronze! It has been quite a process and a considerable labour of love. Really enjoying this in raw unpatinated bronze.
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1/12 We are living in a spiritual and aesthetic dark age. It is trench warfare on the cultural front. I am trying to find something of WHO WE ARE. Today. We are not 1700s man, not 1800s man. I care about where we are today and where we are going.
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JP means this sort of clownish nonsense.
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Moving forward with commissioned sculpture. Cleaning up the lines on the clay positive. Next stage going into hard casting wax for further shape correction, then into bronze. Influences: Vorticism, Futurism and Art Deco
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I think about this often. 1949 BIS Lunar Spacesuit aka The Space Knight. But is a cape needed in space?
YES.
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Commission I was working on in clay several months ago.
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Very pleased to be showing off "Prometheus" a work from my new series.
Come and see it at The Exhibition
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While in London I had to visit this titan of the sculpture realm. Frederic Leighton so brilliantly captures the raw stress and strain, hauntingly magnetic.
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Final touches on Prometheus in wax. Next stage bronze casting ⚡
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This commissioned work is the start of a new aesthetic direction I have been exploring this year. Continuing my journey to pull together elements of Art Deco, Futurism, Vorticism and seek a fresh sculptural blend.
Slowly a path forward makes itself clear.
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SMASH!!!
My sculpture entitled "Tackle" is the next in my new series to be scaled up, first larger in plaster and then on to bronze. Has been a real blast developing this language of forms. Many more works to come!
Key inspirations: Art Deco / Vorticism / Futurism
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1/13 Conservatives, if the enemy has your position under relentless heavy artillery fire, do you hunker down and stand ground? No, that would be suicide. So why is this your default reaction when it comes to culture. Isn't it obvious you must reposition?
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Refining the lines on my sculpture "Prometheus" - every line must be balanced for the overall strength of the composition. Next stage I will cast and realise it in bronze.
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Dear conservatives, what is preventing you from supporting artists to make a culture you want to see?
Dear artists, what is preventing you from painting like this?
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Architects today:
"The extension I have added to this building compliments it perfectly!"
Look at that nice new top floor, seamlessly blending with the original building you can barely notice it's new
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Prometheus gathering in number. Wax editions complete, bronze casting next.
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Well this resonates. I watch the art scene today and everything is anti strength, anti masculine, anti life, anti aesthetic. I look to the early modernists when there was still real fire in the work. Art had some actual meat to it. People are starving for something substantial.
1977, Just after the release of Rocky, this is Sylvester Stallone.
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Close up detail "Titan of time" in bronze.
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time” – Leo Tolstoy
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Fine tuning and cleaning up the raw bronze cast of "Prometheus". This is such a satisfying process to get all the holes filled and forms just right. Once everything is done, patina time!
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You can hide an archetype from sight but you cannot destroy it. Nature will always find a way to express itself.
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The original quick sketch and what it grew into.
Title: "Breakthrough"
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If given the chance I would create a monument that celebrated the dynamic force and form of boxing. The Fourth Plinth deserves a statue that champions vitality.
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@Telegraph
It is funny because many years ago I used to discuss with my friends that I could tell someone's political beliefs simply by looking at a persons face. It is a remarkably accurate approach. You can give me examples of square jawed Leftists and all I can tell you is they are most
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I agree.
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I was asked recently "What energy do you see this next major artistic movement embodying?"
With fire in my eyes, I said "Think of a tank rolling forward at high speed smashing through everything in its path. THAT is the energy we need"
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"Stargazer"
Material: Bronze
Height: 220cm
Weight: Heavy
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THREAD↓ Bullfighter sculpture seen in momentary clips in the new Dune film. Early modernist aesthetic applied to a fictional world 20,000 years ahead of ours. Could the early modernist aesthetic be a kind of neo primitivism. A timeless primal style that never looks aged?
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What is a Great Work to you? Please share an art piece that fits this definition. It can be ancient all the way up to modern day, you choose. I'll go first: Antoine Bourdelle - "Hercules the Archer"
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If this is not your internal dialogue when creating art, you are not going to make it.
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Edward Bainbridge carving Architectural Aspiration (1934) - sculptural relief stands above Royal Institute of British Architects main entrance.
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@triggerpod
@jimmycarr
The attempt to connect Irish immigration with low tier 3rd world immigration... This is why I rarely, if ever engage in any of this sort of claptrap talking point. It is a pointless discussion as long as people are unable to discuss the varying quality of Man.
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Morning sunlight illuminating "Momentum" in bronze.
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9/12 Where can we look to then? The primal essence and residue of greatness. A blissful aftertaste of past glory. Where was it last seen? 1870 - 1940+- still embodied that vital flame. If we can reinvigorate that spirit of dynamism and vitality, a new way can show itself.
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Artists, seek to express vitality within your work. This key principle alone will make you unique in these times. Look around you, every aspect of society has occulted vitalistic and virile archetypes. We must awaken from this stupor.
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12/12 And lastly, if you are an artist, start dreaming of another way. Ask the question, who are we now? And where are we going?
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4/12 Guys, we are not going back. The society we have is in ruins, we have to start again. We need to cradle the embers of strong arts movements and formulate something that resonates today and now. Look back to go forward. But not too far back.
THREAD↓ Bullfighter sculpture seen in momentary clips in the new Dune film. Early modernist aesthetic applied to a fictional world 20,000 years ahead of ours. Could the early modernist aesthetic be a kind of neo primitivism. A timeless primal style that never looks aged?
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Not all works start in my sketchbook. Sometimes I will rapidly sketch out an idea in clay. It is a process of dreaming while being awake. This maquette of the boxer spoke to me and its essence shone through. From there I began scaling up.
Work title "Battle"
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It has always been my aim to bring a vital and uplifting energy to the sculpture I make. I believe art should uplift the spirit rather than deaden it.
Title: "Struggle"
Material: Bronze
Subject: Wrestlers
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@DonBaldassarre
@AcademiaAesthe1
I call this "Retvrner Coomer Realism". It is a pornification of Renaissance and Greek sculpture. Faux tradition seen through the lens of our Hollywoodised post-modernity. You take the worst part of profane modernity and mix it with a pastiche on antiquity, absolutely hideous.
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@realchrisrufo
I still see this type of writing unfortunately in a lot of the pseudo-intellectual art circles, dreadful.
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The figure of the boxer in movement. The turning energy realized as form is what this exhibition really stood for. I have entitled this piece "Battle". An archetypal reminder of the physical and mental battle we encounter in life. The will of the world.
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We need to be combining fortress geometry with vehicles again. This is the only thing I want to RETVRN to, go it?
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5/12 Many of the retvrn guys want to see this↓ but honestly they provide absolutely zero vision to how this style would be expressed today. Does our society nurture such technical ability? No. Of course it doesn't. The best I know can copy, but dream in this style? Rarely.
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@nayibbukele
The mentality of the BBC reporter is a macro view on the broken brain thinking that festers within Liberalism as a whole. This mushy manner of thought continues to rot the very foundations of healthy and right action.
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@MichaelWCurzon
It is so damn blatant. Needs to be serious investigation into the relationship these museum directors have with the clowns performing this.
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11/12 Embrace where we stand today. Fight in your own way to bring something of vitality and strength to the mix. The primal energy is eternal and will forever be here, we just need a way to channel it back into our visual culture.
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"Fortitude"
A sculpture can still have a gaze without eyes.
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A drawing can only take you so far. Eventually I have to get my hands dirty and sketch it in clay.
Head section study for larger monumental work.
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I dream of a very different world, one in which powerful sculptures can again adorn the halls of great buildings and outside spaces. One where we transcend mediocrity and once again reach for the stars.
Meet the Summer Exhibition artists ☀️
Gavin Turk introduces us to his styrofoam veg box... but there's more to it than meets the eye 👀
Book your tickets now:
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2/12 I was fortunate to have a recent post of mine really get some traction. It provided a terrific litmus test. The positive comments and curiosity were just terrific to behold. Thank you all for the support 💪
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6/12 At best what you get is this ↧ which is just laughably kitsch and sweet. Utterly devoid of glory, life and energy. No ladies and gentlemen this ain't it. This is nothing but a pastiche. Simulacra.
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8/12 I have sobering news. That ship has sailed. Hold your hand in the flame and accept where we are. No genius collective of amazing artists and architects are going to come out of the woodwork and start making High Renaissance art. Enjoy what the greats made and move forward.
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When you rail against Modernity, what time period did things get out of control aesthetically/philosophically?
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Peter Thiel poorly answers the art question.
Quite simply the art world is heavily gatekept. If you are an artist with dissenting views you will be starved of oxygen. The interconnected structure of support that the lib contemporary scene provides is not there for us... Yet.
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These are the curators you have running the visual fabric of your society. It is self explanatory why art and culture today is just trash. We must step over this if we are to have an organic culture that is noble and glorious.
White men as a group are the most likely to vote against the rights of others, advocate for tax cuts that endanger the social fabric, are known for their embrace of fake news, and are most likely to be domestic security threat. Forgive me if I ignore them co-signing harm!
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7/12 There is a huge difference between dreaming in a certain style and then simply reproducing what greats did before. My conclusion is many are caught in a ghost dance. You notice there is a major problem in our society and you just want to go back
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Happy New Year! ⚡️
Thank you for your support, it has meant a lot to me. Momentum is building and the next year will be a blast.
Wishing you a vital 2024!
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Turner Prize Winner 2023
The contemporary art world still remains stuck in this anaemic post-Duchampian hellscape. Over 100 years ago Duchamp trolled the art scene with a porcelain urinal and yet STILL the "avant-garde" are playing with found objects. Time for a change.
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Detail "Defense" the archetype of standing ground and steadfastness.
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I dream of a very different world, one in which powerful sculptures can again adorn the halls of great buildings and outside spaces. One where we transcend mediocrity and once again reach for the stars.
Lubaina Himid talks about her Turner Prize-winning work 'Naming the Money'.
On display in Entangled Pasts, 1768-now:
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"Titan of time" in bronze
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time” – Leo Tolstoy
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One day it will come 💪🏻
Isamu Noguchi Working on his plaster original - to be cast into Stainless Steel, 1940.
Would be cool to see
@FendeVilliers
work in this scale.
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Are you excited for the Fourth Plinth sculpture of 2026 anon?
The artists Tschabalala Self and Andra Ursuța have won the next commissions for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, one of the UK’s most important platforms for contemporary art.
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6/13 This notion of unimaginative and static conservatism is the exact problem that has brought us into this ever stagnating mess. Jonathan Bowden was not just a political thinker, he also had a very artistic mind, a rare mix in these times. He sums up our issue very astutely. ↓
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@Derek_Fitness
I suggest we bring these back into service. If the women are anything to go by, these machines work wonders.
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Clay maquette for monument "Bravery"
The charging soldier.
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3/12 What I found entertaining were the low energy replies coming in from a few Trad Larp / Retvrn accounts. Which were actually quite a pleasure to sift through. I am glad I am on their radar. Perhaps I may even convince them/you to wake up out of the larp dream.
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When I talk about a sense of glory and virile energy needs to return to the Western world, this is very much part of the package. 😎
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Filing down some of the imperfections in form and getting the lines and curves just right. Very satisfying process. Next step is to burn in the patina.
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Vangelis was an artist that was truly tapped into the source.
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Quick sketch in clay. I sculpt fragments of ideas. Testing different formulations of shape. Looking for the right temperature of form, before I commit to making a larger piece.
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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and an explosive and vital 2022.
Work by Rene Paul Chambellan
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3.5ton block, what will you become? Looking forward to sinking my teeth into this.
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I want to bring your attention to this young art student. I believe he shows incredible promise and one to watch going forward.
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2/13 Recently an article came to my attention in
@TheSpectator
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@ToryAnarchist
, glad to find others I resonate with.
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One of the most awkward 3D printed monstrosities has finally collapsed under its own weight. Germany you can breathe a sigh of relief.
A statue of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on horseback has collapsed under its own weight.
The statue was unveiled at the Tempel Museum in 2021 to mark the end of her 16-year term.
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Warrior physiognomy. Look into this man's face and you will see eternity stare back.
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10/12 Styles and refinement will organically grow as our current civilisation begins to find its senses again. This will take time. It will not happen one day to the next. The periods in ancient Greece took 100s of years to change and develop. We wont just be RETVRNING.
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When programmers and engineers come together to make Fine Art what we are left with is a sterile disaster. These bugmen all lack spirit and virile force and a computer won't solve that. If we want to see a world of lifeless art then this is how to achieve it.
‘The Impossible Statue’ is a stainless-steel sculpture made by using latest AI technology. Inspired by artists like Michelangelo, the statue has attributes of 5 different sculptures. It is now on display at the Science and Technology Museum in Stockholm
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3/13 Do we accept who currently leads our culture? An avant-garde that grovels in the spiritual pigswill of the liberal hivemind. There is no life affirming glory here, no nobility, no rootedness. Just a vitality sucking void of nothingness. The flame has well and truly gone out.
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Steve Jobs embodied the Artist archetype.
This is to look at our world as a molten substance, like clay you can focus energy and action upon it. Nothing is set in stone, all material can be directed by Will. I believe we must keep this mindset to create a life-affirming future.
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That urge to be encased in steel. Wielding a huge sword. Looking at the world through tiny slits. Retvrners, can we bring this back?
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@WorldnewsNws
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Seeing nonsense like this is just another reminder that our "culture" is so wet, so contrived, so utterly devoid of fire. This parasitic movement is in its death throes, in time we will find something more vital to take its place.
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Yes! The aesthetic language left to us by the Vorticists, Futurists and aspects of raw Art Deco must be rekindled and synthesised if we are to strike a new vein. An expression that steps over the sentimental saccharine regurgitations and goes energetically to the core.
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