AFA 22nd Anniversary

2021 Antiques & Fine Art 55 To the right of the fireplace, the oil and print on canvas Inaricho (2018) is by German artist Erik Schmidt. Inspired by the artist’s memories of time spent in Tokyo, the painting captures the geometric forms created by the masses of cables, steep vertical structures and sense of vertigo experienced while looking upward at an intersection outside the Inaricho subway station. The colors, applied as impasto to the enlarged prints of the photograph, overlay the cityscape and condense into fields or patterns. The standing illuminated floor sculpture by Jane Hallworth, Glory, is solid patinated brass with a hand-faceted glass lens, and produced in an edition of 10. This piece truly straddles the line between art and collectible design, serving both as a sculpture and when illuminated, as a source of glowing ambient light.