Youth with Split Apple (2005)

Kenny Hunter (born 1962, Edinburgh)

     Kenny Hunter’s art offers contemporary figurative sculpture, unlike the commanding figures of many triumphal monuments, here a student reclines among us, sharing our space. He is holding an apple, a traditional symbol of intellectual awakening, which is split in two to suggest the dualistic nature of knowledge good and bad. In this work, Kenny Hunter questions the assumption that knowledge is acquired through actions, instead suggesting that openness and contemplation play their part and that the aim of life is not to change the world but to understand it.