Sculpture International Rotterdam

The Sculpture

Carel Visser’s expressive sculpture Mother and Child (2001) is an assemblage of various found objects and scrap metal cast in bronze. The individual elements remain recognisable: a folded steel plate, a doll, wire, reinforcing rods, tubes and other scrap metal. Together they form an associative whole representing two figures: a mother and her child.

The mother is made up of rough and angular forms with a wild hairdo of reinforcing rods. A whisk lies at her feet. The mother’s crude forms contrast with the smooth, round forms of the child, cast from a plastic doll. The sculpture makes a harsh impression, enhanced by the surface treatment with nitric acid.

Specifications

Passanten over Moeder en Kind