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Impossible Cornucopia …

…presents an adonis astride a high Baroque pedestal in the form of a bedroom chest. He is a classical harvest hero, a Bacchus adorned in garlands, while the drawers spill forth an equally gleaming, yet artificial, bounty. The materials and scale allude to a deliberate playful artifice; the faux ceramic façade appears substantial. It is a perfectly turned out facsimile of fertility, preoccupied with playing boudoir games of eroticism and art. Like an outlandish European statue from another cultural time playing pleasurable games of lush adornment, this figure is positioned against the equally rich architectural foliage of the ornate ceiling of RMIT gallery.

Formally this sculpture considers the figure’s relationship to the pedestal, the role of decoration as subject, the question of monumental scale, and the materiality of contemporary sculpture technology. This sculpture celebrates its classical heritage as a coy folly, while employing unique techniques and new materials to render an impossible cornucopia.

Description

Impossible Cornucopia …

…presents an adonis astride a high Baroque pedestal in the form of a bedroom chest. He is a classical harvest hero, a Bacchus adorned in garlands, while the drawers spill forth an equally gleaming, yet artificial, bounty. The materials and scale allude to a deliberate playful artifice; the faux ceramic façade appears substantial. It is a perfectly turned out facsimile of fertility, preoccupied with playing boudoir games of eroticism and art. Like an outlandish European statue from another cultural time playing pleasurable games of lush adornment, this figure is positioned against the equally rich architectural foliage of the ornate ceiling of RMIT gallery.

Formally this sculpture considers the figure’s relationship to the pedestal, the role of decoration as subject, the question of monumental scale, and the materiality of contemporary sculpture technology. This sculpture celebrates its classical heritage as a coy folly, while employing unique techniques and new materials to render an impossible cornucopia.