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    GRAHAM HUDSON
    GRAHAM HUDSON
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    Graham Hudson
    Athleisure Antiquity (Fountain)
    2020
    940 cm x 980 cm x 350 cm
    Scaffold, exercise balls, hose pipe, water, steel pool and polypropylene figures; Discobolus, David, Nike and Venus

    Commissioned by Wavelength, Shanghai
    Courtesy, Monitor Rome, Lisbon, Pereto

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    99 WORDS WITH GRAHAM HUDSON

    Do you desire to build a beautiful body? In 1882, circus performer, Friedriech Wilhem Müller toured Italy, inspired by sculptures like Michelangelo’s David’, he would re-mould his body in their image. He re-named himself Eugen Sandow, becoming the world’s first body builder and a symbol of Modernism. He’s in Duchamp’s ‘Large Glass’ and Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. Schwarzenegger calls Sandow ‘My Hero’, he inspired NASA’s Aerobics and modern Yoga. But the Roman sculptures were copies of lost Greek works, which were more maths algorithm than physical study. Today we chase this tale of classicism, modernism and facsimile to dream the unattainable.

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