Appendage No.7
Toy robot study for 11 Rue Simon-CrubellierEdition 5 of 10
Hand cast and finished in pigmented Jesmonite
120 x 120 x 280mm
Accompanied by a numbered and signed certificate
About this Edition.
As with all these monthly Appendage's No.7 derives from a larger work which, in this case, is a permanent sculpture I made for Amsterdams Stadionplein a few years ago, titled 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier.
The sculpture comprises a life-size concrete and bronze replica of a two bed apartment and the toy robot appears in the kids room. Each object was chosen by consensus from a choice of 5 found in Dutch national museum archives (ie. 5 toys, 5 kettles, 5 chairs, 5 bikes etc.). The committee, made up of 100 locals invited from a 5 mile radius, voted via an interactive website which enabled them, much like an Ikea app, to build their dream pads. The architecture and standard-issue fixtures and fittings (ie. loo, sink, water tank etc.) are all made in concrete and all derive from a controversial new-build overlooking the square. The selected homewares are all cast in bronze. The faucets (taps, toilet, radiators etc.) intermittently blast water up in to the air, transforming the interactive environment in to a huge public fountain which drains away in the channels that otherwise demarcate the invisible walls.
As with all my public works 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier is intended, above all, as an exercise in social sculpture.