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  • 1978
  • color photograph, mounted on cardboard
  • 42 × 30 cm
In the mid-1970s, Lois Weinberger began referring to the countenances of animals as part of his creation of sculptures that suggest liaisons between humans and nature. Wooden masks exhibiting grimaces created by way of externally inserted elements reference animal behavior, which can in turn be quite often interpreted as caricaturing the behavior of human beings. Most of these references are to bird-faces or representations thereof. The sculptures appear in humorous and carnivalesque constellations and hint at the ambivalent relationships between different species on the evolutionary scale. W.S.