Venice Biennalle, some shots with Sonia Payes’s sculpture in Giardinni della Marinaressa.
ECC-ITALY Venice Biennial "PERSONAL STRUCTURES" 2022
In this troubled world of earthquakes, floods, wars and global warming, it is a sheer delight to find a dedicated sculptor with such an ironic sense of humor and a highly developed sense of the ridiculous. While Martin George can undoubtedly make a totally convincing piece of modernist sculpture, viewable from all directions and immaculately constructed, he also likes in catching the spectator unawares. Things are frequently not quite as they first seem.
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artist profile : Martin George 1980
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Last year I installed “In Transit” at Settlers Square in Dandenong.
This sculpture had an intervention and was set on fire. Scientific experimentation is great, but I was chuffed that the scientists thought the bronze pallet was indeed timber and flammable, a victory for interred obfuscation, and sculpture in general.
The sculpture has been restored, it looks great now also.
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