On View In:
Gallery 317
Artist:   Louise Hindsgavl  
Title:   I Dreamed Your Dream For You and Now My Nightmare is Real  
Date:   2012  
Medium:   Porcelain, stoneware, gilt  
Dimensions:   11 15/16 x 23 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. (30.32 x 59.69 x 40.01 cm)  
Credit Line:   Gift of funds from Tamara and Michael Root  
Location:   Gallery 317  

In contrast to the traditional use of porcelain, which often celebrated the innocent, the carefree, and the cute, Louise Hindgavl uses the medium to dig into the dramatic depths of the human psyche. Abstract and figurative elements merge to convey a sense of drama and urgency at the tipping point between dream and nightmare.

Artist/Creator(s)     
Name:   Hindsgavl, Louise  
Nationality:   Danish  
Life Dates:   Danish, born 1973  
 

Object Description  
  
Inscriptions:    
Classification:   Sculpture  
Physical Description:   two broken-apart, swirling, irregular, stepped base-like forms at angles; top central figure with human body and arms and hoofed legs, with a growling bear's head; irregular forms with circular patterns on main figure's back, beneath figure's feet and on right portion of "base," with tiny arms protruding from inside of forms; white porcelain figure slots in and fits around gilt stoneware organic-form base section  
Creation Place:   Europe, Denmark, , ,  
Accession #:   2013.5a,b  
Owner:   The Minneapolis Institute of Arts