Marion Friedmann Gallery

Tsukomogami Sheep

sculptural seats or benches in the form of sheep, made of construction steel covered with concrete canvas, by artist Philip Michael Wolfson.

TSUKOMOGAMI SHEEP
by Philip Michael Wolfson


These seats, benches or sculptures are made of concrete canvas and shaped into adorable sheep. For use indoors and outdoors they evoke a playful sense of abstract pets. They come with bronze horns or without, in plain grey or coloured in a vibrant neon palette or any other desired colour. 

TSUKOMOGAMI SHEEP - DETAILS

by Philip Michael Wolfson, from 2011 - ongoing

SIZES: approx. H: 60 x L: 90 x W: 40 cm // H: 23.62” x L: 35.43” x W: 15.74”
MATERIAL: Concrete Canvas, with optional brass or bronze horns
UNIQUE PIECES from an unlimited, numbered series

 

TSUKOMOGAMI SHEEP in NEON AND COLOUR

Tsukumogami (“artefact spirit”) are a type of Japanese spirit. Living inanimate objects. As a concrete, the material possesses an inherent strength, and as a fabric – albeit quite a heavy fabric – it has an innate organic quality and movement. In its raw state it can be seen as a finished product, not requiring polishing, sanding, painting, which is required of any other material or process. The intrinsic life of the material stimulates a conscious awareness of the senses for an immediate response - modeling and molding the raw flesh-ness of the material from an idea, a thought or feeling, rather than developing the works through sketch phases, analysis and then development stages.