INSIDER series
This body of work is a somewhat cynical look at the networks, inner channels, and insider information that seem only available to certain elite groups of people be it government officials, the wealthy, or other similarly privileged parties. These groups are able to use their privileged status and access to “insider” information to advance their status or wealth often times at the expense of everyone else. Access to “insider” information is locked away in impenetrable forms to those individuals that are not part of these elite groups.
Beltchenko’s work depicts this “insider” information with bronze made to resemble communication systems’ wires and contains them in steel and limestone to symbolize how protected and locked away access is to information.
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This body of work is a somewhat cynical look at the networks, inner channels, and insider information that seem only available to certain elite groups of people be it government officials, the wealthy, or other similarly privileged parties. These groups are able to use their privileged status and access to “insider” information to advance their status or wealth often times at the expense of everyone else. Access to “insider” information is locked away in impenetrable forms to those individuals that are not part of these elite groups.
Beltchenko’s work depicts this “insider” information with bronze made to resemble communication systems’ wires and contains them in steel and limestone to symbolize how protected and locked away access is to information.
(Click to enlarge photos and videos.)
Left to right: NOT FAR FROM THE TREE (2008), NORAD (2006), SPIN DAMAGE (2008), USELESS APPENDAGES (2009) and UNTITLED (2009)
360 degree views of the above sculptures
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NOT FAR FROM THE TREE
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NORAD
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SPIN DAMAGE
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USELESS APPENDAGES
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UNTITLED
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Listen to artist Mark Beltchenko talk about the INSIDER series by clicking the video below.