Naturalistic sculptures

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,"Throughout his life, Moseholm has worked with sculpture as a form of expression that is based on life itself and depicts the human body in its many different appearances. Through working with the live model - whether it is children, young people, adults or old people - he, more than anyone, has managed to give human life a living expression. The works are depictions of living people, whether they are more stylized depictions or more caricatured figures. They become sensuously present to the viewer - because you encounter many of the sculptures at eye level, without high plinths that distance them".


Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen in "Livsværker (Life Works)", published in 2016 in connection with Keld Moseholm's 80th birthday and the large exhibition at Faaborg Museum.

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Sometimes there can be a downright archaic dignity about figures such as Standing Woman from 1967, just as in some of the portrait busts, such as the portrait of his wife Bente. One comes to think of the Glyptoteket's Egyptian portraits in all their austere simplicity. The features are regular, but remind us that deep inside each person exist experiences that are hidden even from those closest to them, but which have helped shape the external features we know and love. Each person contains their own riddle.

Art historian and theologian Lisbeth Smedegaard Andersen in "Livsværker (Life Works)", Faaborg Museum 2016

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