Hermann Obrist

How far is too far to go and see the work of a genius?  Normally I wouldn't step foot outside the M25, what with London being such a veritable banquet of artistic talent and all.  But I am almost magnetically drawn to the works of Hermann Obrist, who just happens to be showing at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.  I suppose I can kip on the train or even make idle chit chat with some poor business man about the North/South divide.

It couldn't have come at a better time, of late I have been obsessively studying icecream and wave images.  There's something of the Fibonnaci in them, something that Obrist captures in his sculpture.  Hovering somewhere between abstraction and representation, the pieces have elements of the familiar but are mostly extremely sensual, magnetic works just screaming to be groped. 

http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/exhibitions/hermann-obrist-art-nouveau-sculptor