Artwork description:

Story about the sculpture:
The clever and valiant knight Don Quixote de la Mancha is indeed one of the most famous tragicomic novel characters. The Spanish Renaissance novelist Miguel Cervantes managed to create a character four centuries ago who lives on to this day.
The famous fight of Don Quixote with windmills has become a kind of eternal phraseology, which is used to denote such an activity that is doomed to failure from the very beginning, or a futile struggle against an invincible enemy.
The sculpture is intended not only for lovers of Don Quixote stories, but for all those who have a tendency to rush headlong into useless matters.


Important information:
Even if I state that there are 3-5 copies of a specific sculpture, each of them is actually an original. The technique of my work is atypical and I have to model every single piece of the same sculpture again and create a mold into which the bronze is then poured. Despite over 40 years of experience, even I cannot model any of the other variations of the same motif completely identically. There are minor differences between them, even though in principle it is the same work.
Sometimes it can happen that the work shown in the photo has already been sold in the meantime, and in the case of another order, I have to model this motif again from the beginning and have it cast into a new form. In this case, the time for sending the work is around 3 weeks, and it must be taken into account that this sculpture will differ in a few small details from the depicted work.
But the advantage is that, for the above reasons, the purchased work is unique, and a completely identical work can simply never exist.


About Erno:
His sculptures decorate squares, city streets, public buildings and exhibition halls not only in Hungary but also in Sweden, Finland, France, Austria, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, Japan, USA, Canada and in Taiwan.
In Hungary, his works are represented in collections of all major galleries, such as the Hungarian National Gallery, the Mihály Munkács Museum in Békéscsaba, the Janos Tornyai Museum in Hódmezővásárhely, the Ottó Herman Museum in Miskolc, the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs and others.

Materials used:

bronze

Tags:

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