'Think 6 Million Forms of Different' C3PO is the polished-chrome crowning piece of technology in a world filled with technological wonders. C3PO is also the translator, a communicator between disparate species spread across galaxies. Steve Jobs is no different. He is our golden boy CEO in the golden age of digital communication. His polished and reflective devices scream sexiness while also, serving as conduits for the growth of civilizations.
TECHNIQUE: paper and wood
18 inches tall, 5 articulating body parts. With removable iPad accessory. Mac logo and chest iPhone 'square' button details. Hand-carved cedar, hand-sculpted polymer clay, industrial-grade oil-based enamel paint, wire & mixed media accessories and details.
Rough shapes hand-carved with electric planer, chisels and straight-blade knife. Details finished by hand with Dremel, sander and polymer clay. Encased in custom 'secret sauce' hard-coat and adhesive mixture prior to triple-layer priming. 3.5in. tall wood and white-finished base.
'Think 6 Million Forms of Different' C3PO is the polished-chrome crowning piece of technology in a world filled with technological wonders. C3PO is also the translator, a communicator between disparate species spread across galaxies. Steve Jobs is no different. He is our golden boy CEO in the golden age of digital communication. His polished and reflective devices scream sexiness while also, serving as conduits for the growth of civilizations.
where fusing a pre-Columbian vision with a pop theme,
a rediscovered figure; a well told lie.
Iván Darío Espinell is member of ARTEFACTO INC ART TOYS, a Collective of Colombia formed in 2011. With experience in the world of graphic design and illustration, he is working on his own Art Toys platforms and he is pioneer of this movement in his country, Colombia. He promotes the design for people, the illustration and the elaboration of toys for all ages. He is member and co-founder of Art Toy Gama Collective
in ARANBURU PALACE - PALACIO ARANBURU - ARANBURU JAUREGIA,
TOLOSA, GUIPUZCOA, SPAIN
by ART TOY GAMA COLLECTIVE (through Cristina A. del Chicca)
2017
“El Movimiento artístico de los Art Toys.
Interiorizando Art Toys”
(“Art Toy arte mugimendua. Art Toy barneratzen”)
The Artistic Movement of the Art Toys.
Interiorizing Art Toys
Over the centuries, shamanism has been the fundamental engine of environmental, social, cultural, economic and religious adaptation of indigenous communities. The CHAMAN is an intermediary with the owners of nature, an ecologist who manages and preserves the resources of the jungle. An intermediary between the natural and spiritual world, traveling between the worlds in a trance state. A communicator from the community with the spirits, who communicates with them to get help in healing, hunting or controlling time ...
A través de los siglos, el chamanismo ha sido el motor fundamental de la adaptación ambiental, social, cultural, económica y religiosa de las comunidades indígenas. El CHAMAN es un intermediario con los dueños de la naturaleza, un ecólogo que gestiona y preserva los recursos de la selva. Un intermediario entre el mundo natural y espiritual, que viaja entre los mundos en un estado de trance. Un comunicador de la comunidad con los espíritus, que se comunica con ellos para conseguir ayuda en la curación, la caza o el control del tiempo…
GIOVANNI ACEVEDO aka NUKA es un artista plástico nacido en el año 1975 en la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia que ha realizado innumerables intervenciones y exposiciones por todo el mundo. Sus pinturas y estatuas de barro reflejan recuerdos del pasado pre-colombino, complementados con la imaginación cotidiana. Un auténtico realismo mágico, donde la memoria de la mitología pre-hispana plasmada en el presente es la esencia de sus pinturas y esculturas.
GIOVANNI ACEVEDO aka NUKA is a plastic artist born in 1975 in the city of Medellin, Colombia, who has made innumerable interventions and exhibitions all over the world. His paintings and statues of clay reflect memories of the pre-Columbian past, complemented by everyday imagination. An authentic magical realism, where the memory of pre-Hispanic mythology embodied in the present is the essence of his paintings and sculptures.
Over the centuries, shamanism has been the fundamental engine of
environmental, social, cultural, economic and religious adaptation of
indigenous communities. The CHAMAN is an intermediary with the owners of
nature, an ecologist who manages and preserves the resources of the jungle. An
intermediary between the natural and spiritual world, traveling between the
worlds in a trance state. A communicator from the community with the spirits,
who communicates with them to get help in healing, hunting or controlling time
...
A través de los siglos, el chamanismo ha sido el motor fundamental de
la adaptación ambiental, social, cultural, económica y religiosa de las
comunidades indígenas. El CHAMAN es un intermediario con los
dueños de la naturaleza, un ecólogo que gestiona y preserva los recursos de la
selva. Un intermediario entre el mundo natural y espiritual, que viaja
entre los mundos en un estado de trance. Un comunicador de la comunidad con los
espíritus, que se comunica con ellos para conseguir ayuda en la
curación, la caza o el control del tiempo…
GIOVANNI ACEVEDO aka NUKA is a plastic artist born in 1975 in the city
of Medellin, Colombia, who has made innumerable interventions and exhibitions
all over the world. His paintings and statues of clay reflect memories of the
pre-Columbian past, complemented by everyday imagination. An authentic magical
realism, where the memory of pre-Hispanic mythology embodied in the present is
the essence of his paintings and sculptures.
GIOVANNI ACEVEDO aka NUKA es un artista plástico nacido en el año 1975
en la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia que ha realizado innumerables intervenciones
y exposiciones por todo el mundo. Sus pinturas y estatuas de barro reflejan
recuerdos del pasado pre-colombino, complementados con la imaginación
cotidiana. Un auténtico realismo mágico, donde la memoria de la mitología pre-hispana
plasmada en el presente es la esencia de sus pinturas y esculturas.
Cristina A. del Chicca -
Art Toy Maison member and co-founder of Art Toy Gama Collective and curator of the Exhibition