Kristan Horton, Dr Strangelove Dr Strangelove, dr0027-s012, 2003, black and white ultra chrome archival print, 3.25″ x 15″

In the early 2000′s Kristan Horton developed a brilliant series referencing the iconic 1963 Stanley Kubrick film, the political satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly and simply known as Dr. Strangelove.

Horton paired excerpted frames from the original film with his own interpretation. Using objects, detritus and other material found around his studio, he created arrangements to reflect each of the frames, photographing each. Eventually, over a period of three years, he covered the whole film with 200 works.

The preview text for the book accompanying an exhibition of this work at the Art Gallery of York University in 2007 states:

“Years in the making, Toronto artist Kristan Horton’s doubly legendary Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove targets Stanley Kubrick’s original film, Dr. Strangelove. With the obsessive meticulousness of the master himself, Horton has recreated each scene with objects at hand in his studio, deflating what is exaggerated in Kubrick’s black comedy”.

Also find an excellent text by Robin Laurence, on Horton’s page of our site, just as appropriate now as it was at the time of its writing;

Michael Snow, Wood Calling Bronze, 1989, bronze and wood base, 16″ x 9″ x 6″

The next in the edition of Michael Snow‘s equally iconic sculpture, Wood Calling Bronze, is now available.

In this dynamic and loaded work Snow reveals his legendary sense of humour and layers of his studio process.

Snow’s wooden version of the 50′s era phone originally starred as a prop in the making of his 1985 holograph and multimedia installation Still Life in 8 Calls, commissioned for Vancouver’s Expo ’86 and now in the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. (see installation image below)

In 1989 the all-wood phone, still in his studio, was sent to the foundry where it performed for the the last time as a wood model, reaching its final calling in the form for Wood Calling Bronze. To this day it communicates the same remarkable pulse of energy and history.

Michael Snow, Still Life in 8 Calls, 1985, Installation: 8 rugs, wood table legs, 8 wood chairs, 8 transmission holograms in metal frames, white light illumination, approx. 1.52 m long; rugs: 259 x 182 cm; holograms: 71 x 61 cm, Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts