Fallen Lander, 2010

Klutch Stanaway: Altaira opens Saturday, July 3rd, with a reception for the artist from 6 – 9 pm.  The exhibition continues through August 8, 2010.

NASA explorations, ‘50s science fiction films, and household electronics are springboards for Altaira. The sculptures resemble lunar probes, modernist sculptures, and Exquisite Corpses with faux marble bodies on spindly legs. These forms stem from a landing pod that safely transported the Mars Exploration Rovers to the Martian surface.  Altaira refers to a character in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, who grew up surrounded by astounding futuristic appliances and her wild animal friends. The references in Forbidden Planet are multi-faceted, captivating, and yet ridiculous.  Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Freud, Greek mythology, popular science, the American military, and an amazing electronic score all blur to create a fascinating slippage of time.  Like the science fiction films of the ‘50s, the sculptures are layered with faux surface treatments, futuristic efficiency, and simulation.  Klutch Stanaway’s Altaira celebrates the objects we use to explore.

In the artist’s own words, “ I’ve made a fake boulder and some freestanding structures to transform the floor of the gallery into an unknown landscape. Wall units with colored lights transform the walls of the gallery into an interior of an unknown vessel. The boulder can roll through the space via remote control, flipping the notion of which objects are static and which objects are dynamic.  I’ve tried to embody a slight sense of anachronism in the space, and I used 1950s science fiction films as a model.”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyca45lLx7I


Los Angeles based artist Klutch Stanaway received his M.F.A in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2004, and is currently a sculpture professor at Fullerton College.  Stanaway has had recent solo exhibitions at Haus Gallery in Pasadena and Spacecraft Gallery in San Diego, and in the group exhibition Sound & Motion in 2007 at SolwayJones.

For more information, please contact:

Michael Solway or Angela Jones

solwayjones@sbcglobal.net

http://www.solwayjonesgallery.com/

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