The Parastone studio continuously works on new and surprising ideas and designs.
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31/01/2023
Nosybirds, Jos Brölmann
Nosybirds is created by Jos Brölmann. He lives in the middle of the cultural heart of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Working for many years in the international creative and marketing industry, close to design departments, he decided to use his creativity in contemporary art. His recognizable and colorful work can be found all over Europe and the US. In a series of his paintings, Jos created an animated character which increased the impact of the message in his work. He named his characters Nosybirds and the paintings proved popular in exhibitions and online. (NOBI01 Look Up – h. 13 cm., NOBI02 Follow – h. 12,5 cm. & NOBI03 Review – h. 17,5 cm.)
27/12/2022
Magritte, le Thérapeute
The Healer, 1967, reflects a number of themes typical of Magritte's work, such as the extraordinary within the ordinary, the surprising, the unexpected and the mystery. Via Le Thérapeute Magritte brought to life a figure that had already featured on several occasions in his oeuvre. However, this sculpture is based on a photograph dating from 1937 entitled God on the Eighth Day [Dieu, le huitième jour]. For this particular sculpture he made a plaster cast of an existing person, from which he used certain pieces. The bird cage is also a copy of a real one. (MAG07 – h. 20,5 cm.)
19/12/2022
Maillol, L’Air
In 1938, the city of Toulouse in southern France commissioned Aristide Maillol to commemorate the pilots of the airmail service, l'Aéropostale, who had been killed in the line of duty. Its form was initially inspired by a small terra cotta sculpture Maillol had made several decades earlier depicting a reclining figure resting on wind-blown drapery. The artist often used the female form to symbolize aspects of nature like the sea, the seasons, and even a subject as exlusive as air. (MAI01 – h. 13 cm.)
14/12/2022
Surpise!
The Dubout cat keeps surprising us! (DUB82 – h. 6 cm.)
07/12/2022
Jacky Zegers
Colourful art that makes you smile. Jacky makes art with just one purpose, to let us experience pleasure and happiness. (JZ19 giraffe Willem – h. 71 cm., JZ18 dog Natcho – h. 20 cm.)
05/12/2022
Forchino, The Barista
An enticing smell of coffee floated in the air of the bar “La Belle Epoque”. John Zahno, the bartender, always bragged about being the best barista in the whole city. (FO85553, the Barista – h. 44 cm.)
17/11/2022
Museum Gifts
A nice addition to the collection of paperweights, from artists such as Degas, Rodin and Gaudi. (s.a. PDEG2, PROD1, PMON2 & PGAU1, glass h. 3,5 cm. / Ø 8 cm.)
11/11/2022
Discobolus
The Discobolus of Myron is an Ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period at around 460–450 BC. The sculpture depicts a youthful male athlete throwing a discus. The bronze Greek original is lost. The work is known through its numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, which is cheaper than bronze, such as the first to be recovered, the Palombara Discobolus, and smaller scaled versions in bronze. (WU71978 – h. 27 cm.)
18/08/2022
Samurai
Samurai, those who serve. The samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. (WU71010, WU72582, WU72481 & WU71599 – h. 16,5 – 27 cm.)
25/05/2022
Boccioni
Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (1913).
Parastone has opted for a new bronze colour for this famous statue of Boccioni, of which several casts were made after his death. In his ‘Manifesto technico della scultura futuristica’ he advocated experimenting with the simultaneous use of different materials in dynamic forms, with a focus on the “abstract reconstruction and not the figurative, form-determining meaning of planes and volumes”. The bronze figure with the telling title ‘Unique forms of continuity in space’ reflects his approach to life, as a futurist, which was lively, dynamic and future-oriented. (BOC01 – h. 15 cm.)
18/05/2022
Irresistible
Dubout cats are simply irresistible .. (DUB81 SET – h. 10,5 cm.)
01/04/2022
Bob & Ink
We welcome peacock Bob and cat Ink in the collection of Jacky Zegers. (JZ16 – h. 39,5 cm., JZ17 – h. 17,5 cm.)
