OT-Phono Parts Used in Modern Sculpture

[Discman]

Our local newpaper ran a story on a recent art exhibit featuring a sculpture that includes 2 wooden cygent horns and a crank. They look like some of Don Gfel's wooden horns. They are referred to as 'Victrola" horns in the story.
Here's the story followed by a link to the full article that includes a photo.
Dave Jolley

Dustin Farnsworth's sculpture The Adventures and Misadventures of Fiasco Armstrong (named best of show) refers to dadaist and surrealist aesthetics, and links to contemporary retro-tech and steam-punk constructions. Part Victrola and part moonshine still, the piece consists of a wooden chair pierced by a large metal tank. Above the tank, a coiled copper tube extends to a pair of large Victrola horns. Below the chair seat and under the metal tank, a crank arm extends from a cogged wheel.
A mix of whimsy and nostalgia, the nonfunctional device speaks to impractical ingenuity and to the allure of invention.

Article with photo here:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/ar ... ml?sid=101

[phonophan79]

Selections reflect contemporary concerns
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:45 AM
BY CHRISTOPHER A. YATES
For The Columbus Dispatch

ATHENS, Ohio -- In its seventh incarnation, "OH+5" is a biennial juried exhibition open to artists from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Presenting a snapshot of the region, this year's strong exhibit presents more than 70 pieces in a variety of mediums.

Curators Dennis Harrington, director of the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati; Brian Harper, assistant professor of fine art at Indiana University Southeast; and Simone Osthoff, associate professor of critical studies at Pennsylvania State University, selected artists clearly engaged with the complexities of our time.

Their demanding works address concepts such as environmental fears, economic woes and cultural memory.

Dustin Farnsworth's sculpture The Adventures and Misadventures of Fiasco Armstrong (named best of show) refers to dadaist and surrealist aesthetics, and links to contemporary retro-tech and steam-punk constructions. Part Victrola and part moonshine still, the piece consists of a wooden chair pierced by a large metal tank. Above the tank, a coiled copper tube extends to a pair of large Victrola horns. Below the chair seat and under the metal tank, a crank arm extends from a cogged wheel.

A mix of whimsy and nostalgia, the nonfunctional device speaks to impractical ingenuity and to the allure of invention.

Ron Kroutel's painting Floating Man depicts a man hovering above a massive, boxy warehouse. In the foreground, rooftops of small 1960s or '70s suburban homes can be seen. A meditation on the ongoing effects of consumer culture and the American dream, the piece suggests economic uncertainty and displacement.

Among the compelling photographs are Steve Rubin's Transport, which poetically documents the journey of an enormous wind- turbine blade, and Penny Gentieu's Abandoned Church, which speaks to ideas of spiritual decline.

The insidious growth of plastic in the environment is the subject of Kristina Arnold's installation Interstate Landscape, which uses sewn plastic shopping bags as vine leaves. Her piece threatens to take over gallery space.

Ceramic works fill the exhibition and reveal a host of conceptual and technical practices. In Flight of Birds, Diana Bjel fills an otherwise-ordinary vessel with numerous small birds. Tomo Kobayashi's intricate teapot Organic and Nature seems like a seedpod from some rare and exotic tree.

Texture is the key to Stephen Wolochowicz's Double Balloon Inflation and Mary Neiditz's Bio-Morph With Two Tails. Cara Jung's humorous Juggernaughts: Blush depicts a funny little pair of alien creatures.

Pamela MacGregor's Hornbill, which looks like a ceramic vessel, is surprisingly made of felt.

Other strong works include Sandra Heard's mixed-media sculpture Capture Devices, Mary Chamberlain's painting Skylines, Doug McLarty's photograph Scheherazade and Rachel Clark's painting Ruinscape.

• "OH+5" continues through Feb. 28 in the Dairy Barn Arts Center, 8000 Dairy Lane, Athens. Hours: 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays and noon to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and until 8 p.m. Thursdays. Admission is free. Call 740-592-4981 or visit .

[phonophan79]

Interesting. While I'm not necesairily opposed to this... I'm supportive of all art. I'd be pissed off it were a part I needed though.

Thanks for sharing.