Jonathan Prince at Christie's, New York City

SM Art Advisory facilitated the partnership between renowned artist Jonathan Prince and Christie’s Auction House, which presented a private sale of his Shatter series sculptures.

The idea for the Shatter Series was a natural evolution of Jonathan’s work exploring the physical nature of material and human behavior. “The works look at the duality of both material and our human nature. The rawness of CorTen steel as an outer geometric form and the precision of polished stainless steel as a mirror of our chaotic inner selves.” The outer surfaces of Prince’s work often use geometric forms, suggesting a mathematical perfection. The inside of the sculptures reflects the breaks, tears and scars as a metaphor of the human experience. Prince feels that “The real beauty of life and this work is not in the perfected geometry, but in the breaks”.