Exhibitions

Versailles

 

STEVE ARMSTRONG

Klockwerk:  New Automata


April 25 through June 15, 2010

 

When cranked the drummer drums,

the dancer taps her legs,

the flutist turns from side to side,

and the moon's eyes move from side to side.

 

CREOLE MOON, 2010,

Acrylic on carved wood with wooden gear mechanisms,

24 x 17 x 5 inches

 
 

When cranked eyes move from right to left.

COMPASS, 2010, Acrylic on carved wood with wooden gear

mechanisms and found iron hoop, 74 x 44 x 13  (Detail)

 

 

 

THE FRUIT OF OUR LABORS, 2010, Acrylic on carved wood

with wooden gear mechanisms, 79 x 16 x 16 inches

When wound the pendulum swings back and forth

and all the gears engage so that the figure turns the wheel.

 

 

 

 

     

 

When cranked the figure turns the wheel.

SUNCATCHER, 2010, Acrylic on carved wood, wooden gear mechanisms and lens,

26 x 15 x 19 inches

 

   

 

BUTTERFLY, 2010, Acrylic on carved wood with wodden gear mechanisms,

50 x 23 x 27 inches  (Detail)

When cranked butterfly moves from side to side

while moving up and down; when arrived to the

other side it turns and moves in the opposite direction. 

The sitting figure's eyes roll back into its head

as if going in to a trance.

 
   
   

 

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