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Michael Brolly, John Biggs, Zac Robbins, Chris Coggiano, Tony Delong, and Lynne Brolly
Cirque de Cabinet
Cabinets of Curiosities Exhibit & Book 2003
Poplar, mahogany, cherry, ply wood, nails, electric motors, electric eye, computer chip, Lazy Susan, beads, buttons, wire, springs, glass, and acrylic paint
32 x 20 x 20 In.
$30,000 |
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Conceived by turner Michael Brolly and realized with the help of five other artists, Cirque de Cabinet is a highly unusual work that simultaneously combines sophisticated production techniques with materials that the typical artist would probably overlook. Cirque de Cabinet consists of a Budda-like figure sitting on a bed of nails. Behind his/her folded legs is a revolving drawer that houses a collection of creature-like figures. In its belly, which is made of glass and protrudes from its shirt, is a computerized dancing figure dressed in beads who moves in tandem with the viewer. A motion sensor imbedded in its nose enables the creature's head to follow the movement of the viewer while its eyes blink, wink, look right and left or up and down. |
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Intentionally created out of a hodgepodge of material, Cirque de Cabinet could be said to bear a close resemblance to the creature Frankenstein, who, like this cabinet, was created out of unusual materials that bizarrely functioned together as a whole. |
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