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 RICHARD
HUNT:
Sparrow Hill: Incline and Extension
A native of Chicago, Hunt had his first retrospective at the
Museum of Modern Art in 1971. In the late 1960s Hunt began to
combine open and closed forms to create his "hybrid figures",
and he has spent the past 40 years searching for a reconciliation
of the conflict between biology and technology. His cast or welded
free-standing metal pieces are beaten, bent, twisted, cut and
otherwise wrought into syntheses of organic and man-made forms.
He shapes his material directly with hammer, acid, and blow-torch,
often without benefit of sketches. Snippets of organic form suggesting
bone, fin, and wing are grafted to other forms suggesting bits
of industrial scrap. The resulting hybrids sometimes wield threatening
jagged edges - like "Sparrow Hill".
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