cacaphonique
ben browton: sculpture (1988)
HEAT was constructed after my visit to a Corsican cemetery, and a chance encounter with a Rima ceiling heater being removed from a London council flat. I showed it in “Fragments of Haunted Houses” at the Pomeroy Purdy Gallery in 1988. The heater came on automatically when a viewer opened the twin doors. It was also a meditation on the nature of electricity. In the mirrored top section, I installed a copper sheet with an engraved image of a gryphon, the mythic protectors of the gold of the Hyperboreans.
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- HEAT 1988 (closed)
- floorboards, scaffoldboards, ironmongery, chalk, plywood, electric cable
- 137 x 61 x 34 cms
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- HEAT 1988 (open)
- lead sheet, nails, steel rod, steel hinges, Rima electric heater, mini switch, copper sheet, mirror glass, glass
- 137 x 112 x 34 cms