Year: 1998 (Bronze, granite. 60x240x75cm (without base))
Author: Sculptor Olga Šilova (Born in Ventspils)
The horse became one of the central figures of the exhibition “Fingerprints” (1998). The first urban sculpture and the only work in his native Ventspils.
In the words of Olga Shilova:
"Every person, when looking at a work of art, has their own associations. I associate it with myself. I think about regaining strength in a moment of fatigue - a horse bending down to cool off with clear water."
The image of the horse is universal, understandable, recognizable and undoubtedly positive. The horse symbolizes honesty, wisdom, friendship and love of work.
The sculptural fountain has my characteristic form of sculptural expression – the horse's body is not anatomically precise, but rather elongated.
Maybe someone will associate it with a pipeline. In a specific place, such an association may arise. However, the work was created before the location was chosen and I embodied the idea of the work, based on the values of modernist art,
emphasizing the decorative function of sculpture, the pleasure of form.”
Ventspils Oil administrative building area, Ventspils, Latvia.