Sculptures on Canvas — a collection by Polen Cerci

Sculptures on Canvas

The scar tissue of the soul

Materials — sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin

Golden Butterfly — sculpture on canvas — gesso, plaster of Paris, binding materials, hardened cloth, abundant colors; a female torso by Polen Cerci

Golden Butterfly

59" × 59"

sculpture on canvas — gesso, plaster of Paris, binding materials, hardened cloth, abundant colors; a female torso

Dream Theater — sculpture on canvas — gesso, plaster of Paris, cloth, leaf motif, golden-turquoise transitions, wood by Polen Cerci

Dream Theater

60" × 60" · Sold

sculpture on canvas — gesso, plaster of Paris, cloth, leaf motif, golden-turquoise transitions, wood

Kimani — sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin by Polen Cerci

Kimani

48" × 30"

sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin

Ms Soul — sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin by Polen Cerci

Ms Soul

48" × 30"

sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin

Mr Soul — sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin by Polen Cerci

Mr Soul

48" × 36"

sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin

Smooth — sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin by Polen Cerci

Smooth

48" × 30"

sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin

Colorful Lullaby — sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin by Polen Cerci

Colorful Lullaby

48" × 30"

sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin

Sailor — sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin by Polen Cerci

Sailor

48" × 36"

sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin

Innocence — sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin by Polen Cerci

Innocence

40" × 30"

sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin

Mr Blue — sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin by Polen Cerci

Mr Blue

On request

sculpted canvas relief, 24kt gold, acrylic, resin

Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery with gold, so the break becomes the most visible, most beautiful part of the object rather than the part you hide. I borrow that philosophy for the human form. My sculptural torsos and canvases don’t erase fracture — they trace it in gold and let it stay. I call this body of work scar tissue, because that’s what it is: proof that something broke, and proof that it kept going anyway. Every gilded seam marks a place where the material — and by extension, the body, the person — chose to keep transforming instead of staying broken. Nothing here is hidden. Everything here is repaired in the open.

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