Madrone Art Bar is pleased to announce
LIVING INSTRUMENTS
by Eddy Undertow
Front Window Installation
June 1st – July 31st
Why do these exist?
Living Instruments poses answers to these questions:
1) Do we really need art? What if it needed us back?
2) What if to preserve art, we have to destroy it?
3) If a piece of art changes over time, when is it art and when is it not?
4) What might music look like?
“At face value, these are sculptures with a base layer of a broken musical instrument. The instruments contain installations that include living plants. As you water them to keep the plants alive, the instruments eventually change, and will potentially decay. Same goes for giving them sun. If you don’t take care of the individual plants, they will die. But if you do take care of them, the instrument will probably be destroyed.
The wooden instruments themselves were once alive-they came from living trees. To create music, which is an expression of life, those trees had to give their lives. So, Living Instruments puts life back into that which has died.
During the moments it comes out of the bell of a tuba or the belly of a guitar, music is a momentary expression of the musician’s soul. Living Instruments aims to show what that expression might look like if we could somehow freeze it and wrap living tissue around it. Imagine each living instrument as a vision of a song, a lick or even just one mournful note.” – Eddy Undertow
Artist/Musician Eddy Undertow has lived and worked in the United States, India, Ukraine, Singapore, France and Vietnam. He is a citizen of Germany and the United States, and is a speaker of Russian, Spanish and English. An alumnus of the Convent Arts Collective, Eddy’s art and music explore both duality and how manifestations of duality tend to kaleidoscope into multidimensionality. He lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
For More Information:
www.livinginstruments.co
@sweetundertow