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"Venus" 2010
Found objects, wood, cement, live video and audio
Sculpture: 75" h x 35" x 37", installation dimensions variable

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Ian Burns sculpture. Venus. 2010         Ian Burns sculpture. Venus. 2010         Ian Burns sculpture. Venus. 2010         Ian Burns sculpture. Venus. 2010         Ian Burns sculpture. Venus. 2010        

 

Finding bits and pieces belonging to five separate mannequins, and a clam shaped children's wading pool led to thoughts of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus". The figure is contemporized, with a nod to to Botticelli's water skimming Venus, by the giving the figure a found skim board.

In this work a miniature video camera films across the stomach of the figure and the video is fed live to a projector mounted on the sculpture resulting in the image seen on the wall behind the figure. The sculpture then contextualizes itself into the scene in a birth of video scenario.

 

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