The show if filled with work that mixes DIY and yearning for a simpler time; that brand of nostalgia is all over the place right now. But it's definitely a tip-top example of this sort of work--searching through American history for some kind of authenticity, and using DIY and arts & crafts techniques to evoke authenticity and the American spirit.
The highlights for me were the papier mache lights by Sto. It's not that I haven't seen achingly earnest DIY remakes of high-tech and deadpan takes on quotidian objects before. But Sto, besides making the flashlight and the desk lamp, also made into papier mache the yellow shafts of light the "lamps" emit. The light shaft then holds up the lights!
Sto uses the real objects underneath the papier mache. So the marble notebook has a marble notebook inside, and the scissors are real scissors, coated with papier mache. This isn't really gilding the lily. It's making the lily his own product.
- Libby Rosof (artblog)
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"lamp," 2008, (13''h x 18''w) and "alone time alarm clock," 2008, (2.5''h x 6.5''w), through Cinders Gallery.
5 comments:
I love the laptop!
incredible. the only think i ever paper mached was abigail adams head for history one year.
Really wonderful, it reminds me of something you'd see in a Michael Gondry film!
what fun.
I like these a lot.
oldenburg for a new generation?
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