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Maine artist John Bisbee worked with nails, brads, spikes, and weld to create
his site-specific installation at the Kemper Museum. Labor, work, and industry
crackle through Bisbee's project. His materials, nails and arc welding—both
industrial glues, emerge from industry, connote the struggle with often-dangerous
material, and are the implements of pre- and postindustrial work. Marrying
objects and structural elements with nails is a simple solution to complex
fabrication goals, and Bisbee capitalizes on that idea. The fragmented metal
pieces are often sharp and potentially harmful, but grouped together suggest
a remarkable, indefinable biology or geography. Bisbee was an artist in
residence at the Kemper Museum. |
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