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Medal - "Ten Years of Hyphen"

Features

Location United Kingdom
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Art medals
Year 1985
Composition Tombac
Diameter 100 mm
Shape Round
Technique Cast
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
569201
References Attwood BAM# 36
Philip Attwood; 2002. British Art Medals: 1982 - 2002. British Art Medal Society, London, United Kingdom.

Commemorative issue

British Art Medal Society

Obverse

Hyphen generator

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1975 HYPHEN 1985
PN

Engraver: Paul Neagu

Reverse

Sculptural arrangement

Engraver: Paul Neagu

Edge

Plain

Comments

Paul Neagu wrote the following about this medal:

Sculpture's history is marked in all periods and cultures, along centuries, with 'hyphens' …. that particular moment of mediation between time and space, between energy and matter, a link as a neutral referent of anchoring. Hyphen is a pivot and a pointer. The Greeks called a ‘herm’, a plinth with a phallus on which a guiding and guarding head was placed as catalyst for the traveller. I have made many hyphens, of many materials, since 1975. My own interpretation is embedded in the symbolic geometry of sculptural articulation which combines metaphor with concrete palpable texture. The medal I made in 1985 is a celebration of this awareness; on its own a double faced seal which wants to mark the constancy of reltionship and betweenness.

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Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Medal - "Ten Years of Hyphen"Picture 1 of a sold Medal - "Ten Years of Hyphen"
Noonans
Auction 311
Lot 604
Internet Archive
16 Oct 2024 XF USD 47.05
(GBP 35.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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