walter-horak-american-b-1947-i-people-could-fly-i
Lot 3255
Walter Horak (American, b. 1947), People Could Fly
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Patinated bronze, edition of 20, fifteen figure composition, mounted atop a rectangular marble terrace.

44 x 29 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (including base)

Private Collection, Massachusetts, Colorado, and California

Walter Horak received a BA in Art History from Harvard University, a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

"Working within a tradition that is several millennia old, I am moved by a notion advanced by art critic Donald Kuspit, who proposed that sculpture was “metaphor making in three dimensions”. My intention is to extend the figurative tradition through metaphor: to compare human form to other aspects of experience and in so doing to express metaphysical ideas of balance, tension, and temporality. Sources of inspiration can be wildly diverse: calligraphy, modern dance, plant and landforms, and the work of other artists, ancient to contemporary."