MARK FERELLI: FOR THOSE ABOUT TO DIE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF AUTOMATA AND MECHANICAL LIFE | exhibition
Divus
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25.10.2013
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13.11.2013
Surrounded by numerous working drawings, illustrating the ways and mysteries of its creation, Ferelli presents ‘The Flooded Arena’, a clockwork automaton, owing as much in character to those past mechanical creations of antiquity from Hero of Alexandria, Salomon de Caus, the genius of Arabia’s own ‘Golden Age’, Al-Jazari, as it does the fantastic cinema of Korda’s ‘Thief of Baghdad’ and the ‘Sinbad’ movies of Ray Harryhausen.
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