Khrushchev + Nixon expounded political ideologies at the now famous 1959 Moscow exhibition using a 'typical' American kitchen as a bravura demonstration of technological and social superiority.
Since that time, centres and peripheries of material production and technologies have changed dramatically. In 2013, the mobile production of 3D printers is challenged around the debate about the possibility of making guns in the home.
The first component of Khrushchev + Nixon is assembled using knobs of saucepan lids collected over 20 years, the patina of use etched into the point of connection between hand and lid. The second component is fresh from the printer, delivered to the doorstep in a smart new box.
Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects
plastic, brass, SLC print
15 x 15 x 30 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Nick Mitzevich (Director of the Art Gallery of SA) and Professor Ian Howard (College of Fine Arts, UNSW).
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