Joseph Burlini Kinetic Sound Signed MCM Sculpture 1972 With Pedestal Base

Condition- was dropped once, has switch
43” tall
Width of base 10” x 10”
According to Chris Miller at New City Art: "Beginning as a designer of consumer products for Sears, Roebuck and Company, Burlini launched his career in sculpture with bent-wire constructions that were often mechanized. Although inventive and well-made, they are more about entertainment than aesthetics, especially when compared to the transcendent kinetic assemblies of contemporary Chicago sculptor, Konstantin Milonadis (1926-2012).

Burlini has been a collaborative artist, seeking the help of other skilled professionals to realize his designs and often fulfilling the needs of clients rather than himself. The results are usually more appropriate for a corporate campus or shopping mall than for an art museum. His recent figurative work, however, is quite personal. In some pieces, he seems to return to the kind of academic, observational figure sculpture he must have learned at art school sixty years ago. In others, he produces yet more visions of his personal avatar, Icarus, in new materials and configurations. His appetite for experimentation has not waned. Nor has a work ethic that dates back to the Great Depression—if not the Great Pyramids."

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