Henry Moore | Reclining Figures and Holes: Letting the Landscape Through Sculpture

A horizontally extended bronze reclining figure, with the human body simplified into continuously undulating masses. A large hole completely penetrates between the pelvis and the rib cage—this hole is not a void, but the main subject of the work, through which the landscape passes and is framed into a picture. The surface retains traces of hand-modeling and casting seams, with the bronze oxidized to deep brown and localized green. The work rests directly on the grass, without a base, allowing people to walk around and touch it. Surrounding it are undulating grassy slopes, old trees, and a distant horizon, deliberately choosing an open rather than enclosed environment. Photograph in soft, oblique light, showing both the gradual curves of the mass and the landscape visible through the hole. Avoid: adding a base and railings, shrinking or removing the hole, polishing the surface, placing it in a confined indoor space or small courtyard.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一件橫向展開的青銅臥像,人體被簡化成連續起伏的量體,骨盆與胸腔之間被完全穿透形成一個大孔——這個洞不是缺失,而是作品的主體,風景從中穿過並被裁切成一個畫面。表面保留手塑的痕跡與翻模的接縫,青銅氧化成深褐與局部的綠。作品直接落在草地上,沒有基座,人可以繞行與觸摸。周圍為起伏的草坡、老樹與遠處的地平線,刻意選擇開闊而非圍合的環境。柔和的斜光下拍攝,量體的曲面漸層與孔洞中的風景同時可見。避免:加設基座與圍欄、孔洞縮小或取消、表面拋光、放置在密閉的室內或狹小庭院。