Bruce Krebs presents and comments on the creation of one of his sculptures entitled:

Potemkin
a sculpture by Bruce Krebs.

Russian filmmaker Sergey Eisenstein shot "The Potemkin Battleship" in 1925. The ship remained famous for the mutiny on board in June 1905, during the 1905 Revolution. Also, this sculpture is inspired by Eisenstein’s film.
Here is the link to discover the movie.


The sculpture is presented as a six-sided cube. On these 6 sides, some sequences of the film are represented. Here in the foreground the famous shot of the moor which runs down the great staircase of Odessa.





I made a little film of 1 minute 30 seconds













I started from a purely geometric idea, I imagined different "corridors" to rock the sculpture . After a series of drawings I decided that a vertical half-slot was enough. Too many corridors would limit the surfaces of the sculpture. I didn’t know then what I would really do next... (we can distinguish a small character in front of a large magnifying glass)




The idea of evoking the film "The battleship Potenkin" became clearer. We already distinguish the Cossacks who descend the stairs and the gallows where Eisenstein stands in front of his magnifying glass.




First sketch in earth to evaluate the volume of the piece and
to start thinking about the distribution of the selected sequences.




I started with a polyurethane box. I quickly abandoned the gallows that carried Eisenstein and its magnifying glass screen that strongly unbalanced the sculpture (who fell three times for no reason...). then I reduced the height of the vertical axis.




Height: 42 cm, Length: 20 cm, Width: 20 cm.
The base: 16 cm x16 cm





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Bruce Krebs, sculptor
9 ter street Amelot, 17 000 La Rochelle,
France, Europe.
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