Richard Rosenblum
Manscape, 1984, bronze, 108" x 67" x 41"
"Shamanistic consciousness strikes at the roots of estrangement, since it perceives the world and everything in it as alive, ensouled, dynamic, interdependent, and infused with moving energies. It is embodied for me in Rosenblum's Manscape, where the figure of a man becomes a walking landscape. Uprootedness is part of modernist alienation; salvation means belonging, rerooting ourselves in the cosmos…Rosenblum's sculptures reconnect us with this prima materia…from them we learn that matter can give birth..."
From Suzi Gablik, "Father Earth: A Meditation on the Work of Richard Rosenblum," in Richard Rosenblum: Sculptures, exhibition catalogue, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, 1986, pp. 5-7.
