{"product_id":"the-aerialist-copy","title":"The Footballer","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Footballer, 2005\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBronze, unique\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eapprox. 42 cm high\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Footballer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e is concerned with the moment immediately before action. \u003c\/span\u003eThe figure leans forward, his weight and posture suggesting that he is about to move, to run or to kick the ball, while the sculpture itself remains still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e The tension lies in that contradiction: movement is anticipated rather than depicted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eThis idea developed partly through my conversations with the art critic Peter Fuller, when I was an art student. We would look together at the copy of Michelangelo’s \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e in the Victoria and Albert Museum, where Fuller discussed ideas he had explored in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e. Looking closely at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, I became fascinated by the sense that the seated figure is on the verge of standing. The sculpture contains the possibility of the next movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eIn \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Footballer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, I deliberately worked with that same idea of potential movement. The forward lean is not simply a description of a footballer’s pose: it creates the feeling that the action has already begun in the viewer’s imagination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e© Stephanie Fuller (Burns)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephanie Fuller Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41269265170504,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/9312\/9577\/files\/IMG_6219.jpg?v=1786105552","url":"https:\/\/stephaniefullergallery.com\/products\/the-aerialist-copy","provider":"Stephanie Fuller Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}