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RICHARD
HUNT:
Europa Hybrid
Hunt's hybrids sometimes wieild threatening jagged edges - like
"Sparrow Hill" - and sometimes sweep gracefully upward
as if straining toward the sky - like "Europa Hybrid"
- but the paradoxical combinations are always fascinating and
eloquent. Besides his lifelong interest in biology, techonoly,
and history, Hunt also acknowledges the influence of Picasso and
the drawing-in-space, direct-metal, open-form sculpturing of Julio
Gonzalez and David Smith. "You can create volumes and space
within space, which gives you a broad opportunity for expression,"
says Hunt. Large-scale public comissions now constitute about
70 percent of his work. With 30 public sculptures in Chicago alone,
Hunt has been cited by Smithsonian magazine as the "outstanding
artist of public sculpture in Chicago, the Midwest, and points
south."
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