SOPHIA: “The Birth of Culture”

Description: Bronze sculpture. Green pátina on marble stand.

Dimensions: 100 × 41 × 21 cm

8 editions, 4 artist's proofs

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DescriptionBronze sculpture. Green pátina on marble stand.
Dimensions
100 × 41 × 21 cm
Weight20 kg
Edition

8 editions, 4 artist's proofs

SignatureSigned artwork
Certificate of authenticityThe artwork is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
OriginGuatemala City, Guatemala |
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Sophia: “the Birth of Culture”  is a sculpture by Guatemalan artist Walter Peter Brenner.

“Sophie” in Greek means the love of knowledge. It is represented in this work by the figure of a young woman. Wisdom is born through the accumulation of knowledge. It is the achievement of this end that evokes man’s awareness of the most important virtues, and transforms a human being into a civilized person. This sculpture is a depiction of that fluid transformation.

The base of the sculpture is a spiralling column of books, which represents knowledge to be the foundation of wisdom.  The column is set in a spiral  to denote the evolutionary process of integrating learning and ordering knowledge into wisdom.   Sophie extends her arm upward conveying both aspiration and movement.  Her ascending pose is a celebration of life, enriched through the transformation of a human being into a civilized person.

The Birth of Culture is a tribute to the pursuit of wisdom and to the benefit of its achievement.

This artwork is signed and numbered.

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Weight 20 kg
Dimensions 41 × 21 × 100 cm

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