Dark against the light wall, they are ominous silhouettes, towers suitable for prisons or concentration camps. As elevated places of observation they manifest their function in their form, and by so doing exert a control of the behavior they exist to observe. Its triangular horizontal section is more mechanical than human, though this compounds rather than obviates the notion of standing watch, of being a guardian, of providing protection. Blending the delight of playful engagement of form and the tradition of modernist sculpture with a narrativity that engages both autobiographical and cultural commentary, Andrew Arvanetes sculpture combines the mechanical with organic, indeed human, allusion. All works are oxidized steel.
Dimensions are in inches.
72 x 22 x 22 Biographical Note Andrew Arvanetes received the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from Northern Illinois University at DeKalb. His work is represented in numerous exhibitions and private collections in the midwest, and in public collections including a public commision from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. His work is represented by Sonya Zaks Gallery, Chicago. Endnotes Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space , trans. Return Bachelard, ibid ., p. 17.