Last weekend of the Wild Thing exhibition at the RA. A blissful experience as all the queuing was for the new Van Gogh exhibition. I was totally shocked by Epstein's Rock Drill -I had seen drawings at Kettle's Yard but nothing prepares you for the sheer size and sense of menace. Epstein made it around 1913-14 in celebration of the new machine age, the figure sits on an actual pneumatic rock drill, - but tore it apart when the carnage of the First World War made it obvious that machinery was nothing to celebrate. Only the torso survived which he cast in bronze. The figure below was recreated in the 1970s. It is the most unforgettable image - there is a sense that at any moment the head can turn towards you. Within the machine casing of the torso is a foetus - all that is left of humanity and absolutely powerless. It is a fearsome image.
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