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Harding: art in the form of a touchstone
Antonio Javier López
...the Middle East, come into their own here. "I have always worked with nature and with our place in it," says Harding, standing in front of 'Shinto 1', a white stone from Maro on a Corten steel base. A mineral presented in the form of an offering, an ... inanimate object which nobody would have bothered to look at until Harding decided to transform it into a work of art. "Stone is the most ancient element we can find in nature. I like to think that millions of people have passed it over the centuries and ... hardly noticed it was there. I believe there is a conflict in these works, but at the same time there is harmony in them as well," he says. Stone and stainless steel coexist in some of the pieces in the exhibition, such as the series ‘Shinto wall’.
