TAKEALOOK TEMELA (1935- ) KIMMIRUT (LAKE HARBOUR)
Man and Spirit, c. 1968-70
stone, 18.5 x 15.5 x 5 in (47 x 39.4 x 12.7 cm)
signed and inscribed with artist's disc number, "TAKEALOOK / E.7-70".
signed and inscribed with artist's disc number, "TAKEALOOK / E.7-70".
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Brother of the more famous sculptor Nalenik Temela, Takealook was a well-respected artist in his own right. He began carving in the late 1960s, and his works were featured in...
Brother of the more famous sculptor Nalenik Temela, Takealook was a well-respected artist in his own right. He began carving in the late 1960s, and his works were featured in at least a dozen public and commercial exhibitions through the 1990s. Furthermore, his sculptures are held in several museum collections in North America including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Canadian Museum of History.
For a brief period of perhaps no more than three or four years (c. 1968-1971), a small group of Kimmirut carvers created some remarkable and delightful spirit carvings, apparently at the request of a local schoolteacher who was purchasing carvings for the government at the time. Carved early in Takealookâs career, Man and Spirit beautifully embodies this spiritual and artistic flowering. Here the man introduces the viewer to an enormous yet clearly mild-mannered and hilarious, Janus-faced spirit. Utterly charming.
Provenance
Private Collection, Australia.Join Our Mailing List