{"title":"RORY MENAGE","description":"\u003cp\u003eRory Menage (b.1988, York, United Kingdom) reflects on traditional facets of statuary, sculpture and portraiture. His work is dedicated to discovering novel methods of portraying naturalism. Using a variety of raw materials, the artist’s realm of inquiry examines the position of object-making within a digitally biased era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile many young artists today turn to digital forms of creation, introspection and re-imagination, menage’s practice pointedly centres around a classical form of sculpture. Carving represents an almost anti-digital mode of working where the imprecisions and imperfections visible in his subjects’ features are diametrically opposed to the airbrushed, backlit, pixel-perfect faces we see throughout our everyday media intake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack to nature at mcnamara art projects, Hong Kong, 2018, curated by Nico Epstein marked the artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia. In the show Menage moved the viewer away from the original human likeness of his protagonists, and into a more abstracted, elemental domain where the essences of raw materials, especially the dark matter of iron and stone, can be re-examined.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"six-pentagons-falling-sculpture","title":"SIX PENTAGONS FALLING SCULPTURE","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMenage is best known for his figure-based sculptural works created in materials such as limestone, bronze, and iron. 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