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STAINLESS LIVING (PINEAPPLE)
by Bobby Niven
STAINLESS LIVING (WASP'S NEST)
STAINLESS LIVING (GRENADE)
Bobby Niven. Stainless Living (pineapple), 2006, teaspoons. Courtesy of the artist.
Bobby Niven. Stainless Living (wasp's nest), 2006, teaspoons. Courtesy of the artist.
Bobby Niven. Stainless Living (grenade), 2006, tourist spoons. Courtesy of the artist.
Bobby Niven. Stained by Spoons, 2007, pencil and ink on paper, 11 x 17 in. Courtesy of the artist.
BIO
Bobby Niven is becoming more and more interested in situations where art is confronted with breakage. Whether broken accidentally or on purpose, at an opening or as a cause of time, breaking things always results in an altercation between the detrimental conundrums of breakage and the serendipitous possibilities of breakage. The Stainless Living triptych never seemed able to escape this confrontation. The wasp's nest hangs on a tree in the garden of my old house in East Vancouver slowly shedding its spoons. The grenade was destroyed at an opening. The pineapple is suffering because of the follies of a bricolage approach and the lifespan of Superglue. Stained by Spoons is a sketch made in preparation for an upcoming show at Lowsalt Gallery in Glasgow where the Stainless Living pineapple will be exploded. Kaput, kaboom.