Kroczący człowiek. Martin Duque. Żywica. XX wiek.

I bought the sculpture out of curiosity. I wanted to find out who signed Alberto Giacometti's sculpture and why. I now know who, but I still don't fully understand why.

Martin Duque was born in 1967 in Spain and is a graduate of the University of Madrid. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts. In my opinion, his work is imitative and purely commercial in nature. Under his own name, he sells sculptures which, for the most part, without seeing the signature, could be considered the work of the greatest sculptors. Degas, Miro, Dali, Picasso, Marini, Rodin, and many others. The artist claims that this is a kind of hyperrealism, intended to pay tribute to the great figures of the art world. I have a problem with this. After all, there are those who, not without reason, call such a practice copying, and some even call it forgery. Dugue sells these works under his own name in galleries, so I understand that there are no legal obstacles to this. I must also give him credit for the fact that his sculptures, inspired by paintings such as those by Velázquez, are, in my opinion, interesting and original. In short, I like them.

The resin sculpture looks like skin removed from Giacometti's Walking Man. It is 37 cm high. It is placed on a marble base measuring 24 by 10 by 3 cm. The resin base, which is an integral part of the sculpture, measures 21 by 7.5 by 1 cm.