Pneuma: The Mechanical Egg: seven etchings by ROBERT POWELL
Forthcoming exhibition
Works
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Robert PowellThe Brazen Head (or the Sleep of Bacon)etching and watercolour30cm x 30cm
(54cm x 54cm framed)Sold -
Robert PowellThe Mechanical Egg (or The Wonderful Clockwork Palace of the Emperor Hugo, in whichthe Revolutions of the Stars and those of the Eart are joined in Blissful Sympathy)etching and watercolour30cm x 30cm
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Robert PowellThe Alabaster Chamber (or The Tomb of Hector, resplendent in moving, clanking, pneumatic creatures. The Necrotic Workshop where dead matter is made to live, where ivory, leather, ebony and gems coalese to form the Fair Galatea or Coppelia, whose breath isetching and watercolour30cm x 30cm
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Robert PowellThe Organ Recital (or Dissecting the Doll)etching and watercolour30cm x 30cm
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Robert PowellAt Dusk we use the Serinette to teach the Birds to Sing (or The Twilight Chorus in the Mechanical Menagerie, th eAutomatic Aviary, the Clockwork zoo)etching and watercolour30cm x 30cm
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Robert PowellNature Artifex (or The Homunculus Factory)etching and watercolour9cm x 30cm
(32cm x 54cm framed)Sold -
Robert PowellThe Auto-peripatic School (or Classes of Movement)etching and watercolour9cm x 30cmSold
Overview
These pieces draw on themes connected to automata, mechanisation and artificial intelligence. They look at identity, agency, and they wonder what it might be to be human.