Boxers

Mediums: bronze.
Location: The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York (the USA).

The early work made in the style of cubism demonstrates the method proposed by the Ukrainian sculptor for composing figures from distinct geometric elements. His ways of work were so unusual for Paris that students began to ask him, although Alexander went to France to look for a teacher for himself. The figures of his famous “Boxers” are very conventional, almost abstract, but recognizable. Not striving for a realistic depiction of objects, Arkhipenko, however, conveyed the expression of their competition through tension poses. From different angles, the viewer sees the moment of the hit of one of the athletes and the slow fall of the other one.