An Artist Captures the Zuck and the Amazon Bulldozer Driver in Revealing Sculptures
April 28, 2019
I don’t pay much attention to art. I did read “See Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos As Classical Sculptures.” The creations are the work of 3D printing and Sebastian Errazuriz, who works in New York. He’s a graduate of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and he grew up in London.
The angle is to take classical sculpture as a guide, drop out the Roman emperor or Greek hero, and insert a representation of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other digital luminaries. Elon Musk represents the ideal of truth and single minded focus Silicon Valley style: Cars and rockets, anyone?
This, I believe, is one of the Silicon Valley luminaries leading his smart professionals in a campaign to conquer lesser folk:
Here’s the passage from the write up I noted:
The works should be funny. And they are, through a certain lens. They look straight out of a plot from Silicon Valley, as if they were commissioned to stand in the front hall of Amazon or Google. But they also make an eerie commentary on how, in an unchecked regulatory environment, the United States’s tech barons have become modern day emperors. They have so much power over what we see and do that they almost feel born of another time, and another place, where we believed some people really were anointed by the gods to stand above us all, and so we just listened.
My thought is that the statue of the conqueror of privacy and the master of the online bookstore might want these creations for their gardens or maybe in their offices entry halls. Togas are optional. The sculptures do not seem to be monumental, but they are quite clever, and I believe that the artist could make these statues into David-sized crystallizations that match the subjects’ bank accounts.
Stephen E Arnold, April 27, 2019
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