The knowledge of Anne Shingleton and respect for the animal world is such that the artist is able to enter into their everyday reality. It seems that Anne understands their fears, limits and their daily struggles for survival. Before creating each piece, she studies animals alive and their anatomy for a long time.
In this specific case it represents a small bug in the pose of imminent flight. More than nine hundred species of beetles of the Lucanidae family are known. The males of some of these species, which are among the largest coleopterans in Europe, are endowed with mandibles or "pincers" so developed that they evoke the horns of a deer. In the artistic representations of the whole world, especially the Japanese ones, they often made the dramatic pose of combat and of imminent flight, as visible here, as well as in the famous watercolor of Albrecht Dùrer of 1595, to which the artist recognizes a large debt. This huge sculpture is located in the garden of a splendid Tuscan villa. The base, represented by the oak, is entirely in bronze with a gray-green patina.
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