Father #3784

 

 

 

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Father #3784, H285/80/40cm, 2006.

 

 

> In Father # 3784 (2006), I created a big Father figure with a giant mechanical arm spinning the doll-daughter  through a series of complex movements at a slow and graceful speed. The arm was made from three different motors which work together to swing, lift, and throw the doll in the air. I created The figure of the Father in an  enormous and massive way,  Just like monumental art. I wanted to show a domestic intimate moment in a monumental and public way. The controlling and programming of the arm was made with a joystick.

> The sculpture depicts both brutality and tenderness. The warmth and intimacy that is inevitably connected with our flesh – the tender embrace of a parent or the comforting contact of familiar skin – is turned into stone and metal.  In a way, this sculpture is about being in love with the thing that controls you and keeps you close to it. It's about losing yourself and your persona to the figure of power. It's about surrendering to the one that you cannot but surrender to.  

 >(this work was created and developed with the technical help of Stephan Kuderna and Kees Redijk from the  RijksAcademie van beeldende Kunsten). >

 

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Drawing no.21 > H200/150 cm > 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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