Opening Thursday 10 March 2011, 6-8pm. Showing until 21 April 2011.
Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne (Gallery 3).

Danny Frommer, Falsifying Betty, 2010. Images courtesy of the artist.

The mechanical and the handmade combine in kinetic sculpture.

Fluffy Transmission is a new installation combining the soft and somewhat organic forms of pom-poms with the mechanically limited motion of a rotary transmission system. This ‘machine’ has not been assembled as a means toward an end goal, but rather to reflect on how machines operate and the values inherent in them. The cyclical forms in Fluffy Transmission unify to create a kind of temporal mandala.

Danny Frommer’s practice spans a variety of art forms including painting, photography, sculpture and installation. His work explores how mechanisms, machines, and representations can transmit and mould forces, material, motion and energy in order to impart ideas and sensations.  More recently he has produced kinetic pieces that reflect on the relationship between the body and the machine; the machine-made and the hand crafted.

Frommer’s machines are often made out of recycled or found materials, or objects that are not usually considered as mechanical components. Frommer holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from ANU, has undertaken numerous residencies and is currently completing a Certificate III in Engineering Studies at NMIT.

Fluffy Transmission will be opened by Helen Hughes, writer and curator.

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