Filosofisk

Italian grès 1.000-clay
Pneumatic shaping

L 17 cm

Based on that Scoppola has named many of his fish sculptures through a play with the Swedish language (with some paraphrasing of the Swedish vowels å, ä and ö) combined with characteristics in the different sculpture bodies such as shape, color settings, expressions, or elements from the creating process, Filosofisk has received its name based on the combination that a fish, being such a quiet creature, can be compared to the utmost of philosophers and also due to that its curled fins reminded Scoppola of the 18th century wigs of Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg and German philosopher Immanuel Kants. Both philosophers who thereto share the sculptor’s name