A major new addition to the east lawn of the Rahr West Art Museum is coming next month.
Museum Executive Director Greg Vadney tells Seehafer News the permanent sculpture known as Makili is a horse cultivated out of driftwood, but then artist Deborah Butterfield casts it in bronze.
“The bronze just obliterates the wood and then takes over,” Vandey explained. “So, it’s bronze but even if you go right up to it you think it’s made of wood. It’s really an amazing process.”
Vadney tells us the sculpture is in Manitowoc right now, but won’t be installed until mid-September after Sputnikfest.
Vadney says the piece will bring “our artwork outside our doors and brings something to this community that its not seen before. I’ll tell you it’s a breathtaking work of art and I think the public is going to love it.”
Makili was purchased at Sotheby’s Auction and is a gift to the museum from the Rahr-West Art Museum Charitable Foundation.
