As I am thinking of and looking more and more at the images of Michelangelo's slaves, I am somehow reminded these works by Daniel Arsham... The most obvious similarity is that the statues in Arsham's paintings depict a style of sculpture that is easily recognized as classical and common to Michelangelo's time. Further than that though, the obstruction of a completed human form is something I find similar. (These human figures are not hidden or trapped, but they are not completed human forms either). The foreign objects attached to the sculptures are such basic and simple shapes, they are only building blocks to become perfectly formed human bodies. In this way this attached incompleteness reminds me of Michelangelo's Slaves. Human figures which lack a whole completeness to achieve the human form.
These are all gouache on mylar, and were made in New York City in 2010.
"Figure"
"Man"
"The Eyes"
"Eyes"
All images have been taken from Daniel Arsham's website at <http://www.danielarsham.com/index.php?/project/on-paper/>
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