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Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Zwei Wölfinnen, a presentation by Julius von Bismarck, whose representation was announced earlier this year. On view are two sculptures of she-wolves: one appears as a taxidermized animal, the other is formally based on the iconic classical bronze of a she-wolf in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

Fierce creatures looming large in the humanity’s imagination, wolves are endowed with distinct attributes in different cultures: seen as brutal and unrelenting, doltish or menacing, greedy and destructive, or implicated with witchcraft and magical transformation …