Victoria and Albert Museum.(III): A captive audience?

A Captive Audience? Cast glass, wood and metal, David Reekie, (b.1947), made Norwich, UK, 2001 Gift of Paul Bedford (Museum no.C.112–2000).

Volvemos con nuestra serie sobre los cristales, vidrios, que están en el Victoria and Albert Museum, concretamente en su National Collection of Glass. …aquí traemos esta obra titulada A Captive Audience? … espero que nuestra audiencia no se sienta cautiva ;-). Me gusta y quedaría  de escándalo en mi salón al lado de la chimenea …

David Reekie is a social commentator, a Hogarth for the contemporary world. His subjects are the urban ones of space and personal identity. Human strife, greed and pettiness provide him with an unending stream of scenarios. Reekie is deeply affected by the contemporary human situation. For him, glass is the means to exploring our often fractured, troubled existence; the balancing act of survival. Individuals express their frustrations with tiny but heroic actions.

In A Captive Audience? the current issue of cloning has provided him with a look-alike band of unquestioning drones. But one, at the back, has noticed something over the fence and may yet make a dash for freedom.

The glass is cast by the lost wax method, in which a plaster mould is taken from an original wax model. Molten glass is then poured into the plaster mould and fired. Seven men have been made from the same model; the eighth is the unique one. (leer más…)

Fuente:[Victoria and Albert Museum.]