Blue Calcite Eroded Bust of Hercules Farnese by Daniel Arsham Explore Mondoir Collection Medium: Blue calcite, quartz and hydrostone Unique Piece Dimensions: 90 x 42 x 50 cm Year: 2020 Price on request Status: available Why collect this work?A classical bust is made legible through staged damage: pale crystalline cavities interrupt Hercules’s face and beard, turning an emblem of bodily strength into an image of material change. Arsham treats the inherited figure less as an intact ideal than as a form reconstructed through absence. The title identifies the subject as the Farnese Hercules, while the altered surface shifts attention from heroic identity to imagined survival.In the photograph, losses cluster around one eye, the hair, beard, and pedestal. Their uneven distribution preserves the bowed profile while preventing the sculpture from being read as a seamless copy.The documented combination of hydrostone, blue calcite, and quartz allows opaque white modelling to meet granular, reflective inclusions. Those contrasting materials make erosion appear simultaneously destructive and generative.Dated 2020 and measuring 90 by 42 by 50 centimetres, this unique sculpture is a pointed encounter between classical replication and fabricated archaeology, useful for considering how contemporary objects manufacture the appearance of age. About the ArtistDaniel Arsham Daniel Arsham is an artist featured in the Mondoir Collection. Nationality: American Contemporary artist known for blending sculpture and architecture.
