Bennett Robot Works: Modern Age Sculptures
Writing by Conner Flynn on Monday, 27 of August , 2007 at 1:38 am
Gordon Bennett creates these robot sculptures from a wide variety of both old and new found objects. He was inspired by Norman Bel Geddes and Raymond Loewy, two visionaries of the “Modern Age” who played a large part in shaping industrial design in the 40’s and 50’s era.
When you look at his body of work, these robots scream Industrial and as with any good robot sculpture, your eye can almost see movement where there is none. As art, it does what it should do, which is take you away and bring you into the artist’s world.
Bennett doesn’t just churn them out either. His robots can take roughly a month to build, range in height from 14″ to 25″ and are made with parts that he finds where you might expect: garage sales, construction sites, garbage dumps as well the occasional basement and who knows where else. Materials include wood, metal, Bakelite, plastic, rubber, paint and even glass.
Of course, just like the parts that make them, each robot is unique and comes with a metal tag which is numbered and proves that it is an Authentic Bennett robot. Judging by his prices, which are in the thousands of dollars range, bot junkies all over are in love with Bennett’s creations. It is easy to see why.
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Comment by John & Laura
Made Wednesday, 29 of August , 2007 at 3:18 pm
Very cool ‘bot!
Thanks for posting!
:)
Comment by Cynthia
Made Thursday, 30 of August , 2007 at 2:40 pm
That is a real neat looking robot.