Portfolio Intercontinental Sculpture No. 1 - John Greer

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JOHN GREER
Portfolio of selected work available
January 2021
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Sculpture
No. 1
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This online brochure was created to showcase a selection of work by
the artist John Greer. Please contact us directly if you are interested
in acquiring a sculpture, want to exhibit it or have any other questions.
We will be happy to hear from you.
All works in this edition of portfolio Intercontinental Sculpture No.1
are by the artist John Greer.
All images and texts are © Intercontinental Sculpture Inc. unless
otherwise noted on the individual pages.
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FUSE, 2013
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Iranian Travertine, 170cm x 145cm x 45cm / 67” x 57” x 18”
FUSE is carved from a golden colour travertine stone. An early Chinese circular bronze coin
with a square hole in the center is the source object. In the sculpture the coins are 24 inches
in diameter. The object appears to be a pile of oversized coins, approximately 18, carved from
one block of stone.
The work is a metaphor regarding human value in regard to both, the group and the individual.
Humans are cultural animals locked into a dynamic relationship.
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… From Old Money! 2012
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Guatemala Green Marble, French Red Marble
110cm x 55cm x 45cm / 43.3” x 22” x 18”
The two coins are one object, made of Guatemalan marble. They are depicting enlarged, archaic
Chinese coins, glued to a solid red French marble base. Chinese bronze coins predate Western Aristocracy
by thousands of years. Very old money!
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A Brief History of Money, 2014
White Italian marble, Travertine
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3 elements;
Bridge Money: 180cm x 15cm x 120cm high / 71” x 6” x 47”
Spade Money: 180cm x 10cm x 180cm high / 71” x 4” x 71”
Sword Money: 40cm x 13cm x 190cm high / 16” x 5” x 75”
This three-part work is based on existing early coins from China, before coins were round.
Spade money, bridge money and sword money were some of the shapes used. Coins are a
very early form of abstracted value. I chose these three shapes for their symbolic value. Sustenance
- the spade, crossing the divide – the bridge and defense or territorial expansion – the
sword. These are basic goals of human needs symbolizing commercial values and/ or moral
values.
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Image © James Brittain Photography
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Balanced, 2016
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Travertine, black granite;
153cm x 95cm x 100cm high / 60” x 37.5” x 40”
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Image left and top above by © James Brittain Photography

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Remembering Eve in the Garden, 2012
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Travertine
61cm x 70cm in diameter / 24” x 27.5”
… and sometimes referred to as "Dreaming of Eve in the Garden".
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The Now of Time (ox shoulder), 2017
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Iranian travertine, black granite;
90cm x 20cm x 150cm / 35.4” x 8” x 59”
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Base: 110cm x 40cm x 18cm / 43.3” x 16” x 71”
Image left and above by © James Brittain Photography

The Now of Time (bone), 2017
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Iranian Travertine, black granite;
28cm x 22cm x 167cm / 11” x 8.7” x 65.7”
Base: 50cm x 50cm x 18cm / 19.7” x 19.7” x 7”
Over the last years I have been investigating objects of the past in my work,
artifacts that I selected for specific meanings. I use these objects as image
sources and re-make them, altering them and placing them in different configurations
in the gallery to confront the viewer with layers of meaning in a three-dimensional
voice.
Lately I have been interested in the oracle as an object that is combining my
ideas of past, present and future as a guiding concept of our society that is so
often misunderstood or misused.
The only way forward for humans is to look backwards. This reflection on
time is the basis for constructing our future. The oracles of today, in our culture,
are the consultants from all walks of life: financial advisors, curators, etc. They
all take their cues from reflecting on time. Our guides are walking backwards
into the future. Our desire to know where we are heading has to be a coalescing
of time. The oracle bones of antiquity (China) have meaning beyond their
text. Their value is their projection upon their reflection. It poses a poignant
question:
Where does time come from?
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Image left and above by © James Brittain Photography

The Now of Time (turtle shell), 2017
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Iranian travertine, black granite;
86cm x 15cm x 144cm / 34” x 6” x 57”
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Base: 90cm x 40cm x 20cm / 35.5” x 16” x 8”
Image left and above by © James Brittain Photography

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The Now of Time (small bone fragment), 2017
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Iranian Travertine, black granite;
35cm x 20cm x 70cm / 14” x 8” x 27.5”
Base: 52cm x 29cm x 18cm / 21” x 11.5” x 7”
Image left and above by © James Brittain Photography

The Now of Time is a series, but all sculptures are
individual pieces that are sold separately.
“Oracle – Coalescing Time”, 2016
Travertine,
80cm x 42cm x 151cm / 31.5” x 16.5” x 60”
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Echo, 2019
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Painted plaster;
137cm x 90cm x 40cm;
This sculpture is available as a commission, cast in Bronze.
Please contact us for price and timeline.
I have given much thought regarding the value of Art. The art object is first a manifestation
of the artist voice, a statement in form. It’s true cost is live itself - it takes time - both
to realize and also to contemplate. A voice not heard is lost or has no value. Art is a power
transaction - a form of currency, and like other currencies, its context is a significant component
of its value.
Echo depicts an enlarged human made cowry shell used as a precursor to coinage. It
looks like a mask, and a mask signifies an objective witness. This is like a third-party witness
to a value transaction.
So by referring to this specific object and re-making it as a large sculpture, it acknowledges
the seminal event in human history: The abstract idea of money is one of the major
inventions of the human race!
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Black Madonna, 2019
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65cm x 100cm x 184cm / 26” x 39” x 72.5”
Polystyrol, painted
This work is available for commission in Bronze.
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There is a story of a sculpture surviving a great church fire. It is a story
about tenacity, and like the story of the phoenix out of the ashes of calamity,
the human spirit arises anew. Like human imagination it not only
survives, but it can ascend, shedding light. It is transcending calamity, to
a place of wonder, like the rising of the sun, remembering every day is a
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dawning.

Chest of Mystery, 2017
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52cm x 19cm x 160cm
(20.5” x 7.5” x 63”)
Marble, Granite
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