2094
Corbin, Dan
Born 1947, lives and works in Chico.
«The Display».
Bauxite, colored oxides, acrylic impregnated clay, lead sheet and other sheet metals, as well as a glass bottle imbedded within resin, mounted on carbon steel plinth. Signed on the right thigh, dated 2002 and with the stamp of the artist's workshop.
H 148, W 58, D 24 cm (sculpture),
W 58, D 30,5 cm (plinth).
We encounter a female figure in a confident, determined posture, in ideal proportions and at the same time fragmented like the body of a shop-window mannequin. On the rough, almost coarse surface with its paint residues, grid-like segments open up and reveal an irritating inner life, the geometric lines and structures of a microchip, labyrinthine, abstract and tangled like a maze from a bird's eye view. These openings reveal the body as a technoid hybrid, as a cybernetic organism, programmed by its creator to function, to serve, deprived of free will, objectified and dehumanised. And yet «The Display» seems desirably self-confident, disturbingly beautiful and at the same time, like an ambitious artificial intelligence, ready to take control of its creator at any time.
Authentication: We would like to thank the artist for the authentication via E-Mail, based on photos, 31.03.2021.
Provenance: med art-collection of the HUG-group, Freiburg i.Br.

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