Canadian artist Dave Trautrimas’ The Spyfrost Project features iconic modern appliances reassembled into Cold War era military outposts. The talented 30-year-old artist makes use of recycled refrigerators, lawnmowers and washing machines for installations linking the parallel development of capitalism’s postwar consumer culture and the Military Industrial Complex.
Some information about the exhibit:
Balanced between the promised utopian culture of leisure, facilitated by what the latest in modern manufacturing had to offer and the threat of a global catastrophe wrought by ICBM’s, super sonic jet fighters, and spy satellites, this series elicits the tense equilibrium between the extremes of design and technology during the Cold War era. Critical to these works is the representation of both forces within each composition, as these devices of destruction are assembled from the very appliances that promised deliverance to a post WWII paradise. As Nixon said to Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959, “… would it not be better to compete in the relative merits of washing machines than in the strength of rockets?”
The Spyfrost Project exhibit is at the LE Gallery in Toronto, Ontario until May 30th, 2010.
Visit: http://www.trautrimas.ca/
Via: LE Gallery
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thanks so much :)
written by Eco Living , May 03, 2010