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Amazonka posted on 16 June 2011

Steel sculptures in a women's fashion shop.

Baska, in Magdalene Street, Cambridge, is daringly playing host to an unusual art exhibition, from 17th to 28th June.

The name of the show is 'Amazonka", and the pieces all derive from notions, half imagined, half recorded historically, of the Warrior Woman.

The bodies of these sculpted women are part weapon, part armour. The artist has worked interwoven aspects of  both 2 and 3 dimensional art through the transformation of flat planes of steel into the figures depicted. The sculptures are part drawn, part cut, part welded. They refer to the historical myths of Amazons but they are depicted in a way that is also very contemporary.  

" They are very manga, very sexy! ' B. Chenier

The artist, Cary Outis, says, ' Ideas of female power, and hints of how the world might have been 5000 years ago, all meet in the legends of the Amazons, and reports of warrior queens. These works are informed by many years of Martial Arts practice and the way that apparently soft power can carry great internal force.

'The work is a recognition of women as powerful, beautiful and determined. I have chosen steel as the medium because of its strength and association with both armour and weaponry while its sheet nature  is reminiscent of the raw material of clothing - textiles.

' I think that this place, Baska, where you might say women choose their armour for a contemporary life,  is a great venue to exhibit these works.'

The exhibition runs from 17th to 28th June 2011, at Baska, 18 Magdalene Street, Cambridge. 01223  353800

caryoutis.com

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