> Michael Kutschbach was invited to create the pivotal artwork for the 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, which was unveiled for the first time at the program launch on October 25. The sculpture, "go, you little dynamo, go!", is made from lacquered fibreglass, laser cut steel, colourful flocked and patterned fabric, and polished silver. This project was managed and funded entirely by GAGPROJECTS.

> “My inspiration for the design stemmed from memories of the flowing freeway system leading into the Adelaide Hills and the beauty of the manufactured landscape there,” said Michael. “Originally I was commissioned to design the poster but once I’d expressed my vision it became apparent that a sculpture was the desired outcome to communicate my thoughts. I like the idea of the sculpture being thought of as a peculiar kind of alien. An alien that is fresh and new to this city, yet at the same time entirely formed by it and its people. It’s a friendly and uncertain form designed to appeal directly to the viewer’s senses, to deliberately entice the viewer to come closer and to ask what it is and what it might be doing here. This positive uncertainty and desired curiosity runs through the Festival’s theme of What are you seeing?”
“For the first time we have an extra dimension that every other poster or graphic in the Festival’s history lacked – a literal third dimension. With the two concepts merged, the flat and the solid, the polished and the warm, the sculpture appeared to be a futuristic ‘being’. Something of a cross between a flying R2D2 of ‘Star Wars’ and the fantasy creations of Japanese pop-artist Takashi Murakami,” says Festival Director Brett Sheehy.

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> "go, you little dynamo, go!", sculpture, approx 1.8m high, edition of 10 (available in selected colours). Enquiries please contact Greenaway Art Gallery.