RICHARD BERTMAN

1999. Copper tube, bent and formed copper sheet, water pumps. 120” x 60” x 24”.

WATCHING PEOPLE WATCHING SPORT AS ENTERTAINMENT.

2010. Carved and painted wood, motor, gears, pulleys and sprockets. 14” x 22” x 13”.

EXPLORING WOODCARVING AND THE USE OF CAMS FOR MAKING OBJECTS MOVE.

1994, revised 1996 and 2009. Carved and painted wood, pulleys and cams, wire and welded steel pipe. 72” x 36” x 42”.

THIS PIECE EXPLORES HOW SHAPE AND FORM CAN BE ENRICHED THROUGH MOVEMENT

2004. Welded and painted steel, motor, wire, sprockets, 51” x 40” x 42”.

THIS PIECE WAS INSPIRED BY THE WES ANDERSON FILM “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL”. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUE, THE COLOMBIAN AUTHOR, ONCE SAID, “THE HEART’S MEMORY ELIMINATES THE BAD AND MAGNIFIES THE GOOD.” FOR ME, THIS FILM AROUSED A YEARNING TO REMEMBER WHAT SEEMED LIKE A GENTLER PERIOD IN MY PAST, A PERIOD THAT, IN TRUTH, MAY NEVER HAVE EXISTED OR ONLY EXISTED IN MY IMAGINATION. I WISHED I COULD RETURN BACK IN TIME TO HAVE, ONCE AGAIN, AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE AND UNDERSTAND THAT MOMENT.

2017. Welded steel rod, motor, sprockets, chain, LED lights. 72” x 72” 36”.

A HUMOROUS ATTEMPT AT EXPRESSING OUR FOIBLES, SOMETIMES EVEN IN OUR CLOSEST RELATIONSHIPS.

1990. Bent wire, motors, cassette tape, plywood painted. 48” x 12” x 72”.