Sleigh Ride

"Sleigh Ride" (1982, plaster, metal, wood, L 230 cm) is a sculptural assemblage that evokes the image of a machine, an animal body, and a mythical vehicle all at once. Organic-abstract forms, heads, fragments of mouths, technical elements, and figurative parts are arranged on an elongated base in a distinctive procession. The sleigh appears as a relic from an archaic future: half ritual object, half dystopian apparatus.

The early drawing already reveals the work's trajectory—a dynamic of gliding, but also of collision, as if the elements do not belong together harmoniously, but rather exist in a state of tension with one another. The later execution reinforces this impression, as the parts sometimes resemble toy fragments, sometimes weapons of war.

In its hybrid form, "The Sleigh Ride" alludes to the intertwining of humanity, technology, and myth: a means of transport without a clear destination, a vehicle driven more by a menacing fantasy than by practical function. Thus, the work occupies a position between a surreal dream object and a critical commentary on technology.