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MMXX captures London suspended in an unfamiliar, fragile calm. Spring 2020 revealed streets stripped of their usual bustle, bringing shadows, silence, and an underlying unease into sharp relief. In this emptiness, architecture spoke anew, revealing subtle details and a delicate rhythm of light.

Handcrafted in plaster of Paris, the work embodies both vulnerability and resilience, holding the city at a moment between memory and change. Amid the stillness, there is a sense of the future evolving faster than ever, a fleeting, inexpressible feeling of something unknown, and a quiet prompting to reflect on what this pause may have revealed.

MMXX invites the viewer to contemplate, to perceive how absence can illuminate what is usually overlooked, how quiet can reshape perception, and how fleeting, uneasy stillness can illuminate the subtle beauty that usually goes unnoticed.

Materials used:

Plaster of Paris

MMXX (2021) Relief
by Manuel Ursprung

£32,000

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MMXX captures London suspended in an unfamiliar, fragile calm. Spring 2020 revealed streets stripped of their usual bustle, bringing shadows, silence, and an underlying unease into sharp relief. In this emptiness, architecture spoke anew, revealing subtle details and a delicate rhythm of light.

Handcrafted in plaster of Paris, the work embodies both vulnerability and resilience, holding the city at a moment between memory and change. Amid the stillness, there is a sense of the future evolving faster than ever, a fleeting, inexpressible feeling of something unknown, and a quiet prompting to reflect on what this pause may have revealed.

MMXX invites the viewer to contemplate, to perceive how absence can illuminate what is usually overlooked, how quiet can reshape perception, and how fleeting, uneasy stillness can illuminate the subtle beauty that usually goes unnoticed.

Materials used:

Plaster of Paris

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Manuel Ursprung

Location United Kingdom

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Manuel Ursprung is a German-born, British-based artist whose sculptural reliefs trace an arc from delicate plaster imprints to more tactile, transformative works in latex. Drawing on travel and memory, his... Read more

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