Fuller Craft Museum Presents Icarus: An Installation By Mark Davis

BROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum, New England’s home for contemporary craft, presents Icarus, an installation by Mark Davis, on display through March 15, 2012, created specifically for Fuller Craft’s Courtyard Gallery. The mobiles of Mark Davis are poetic abstractions of color and form, brought to life by the subtle and graceful movement of the constituent parts. The soft, organic shapes are carefully layered in a unique language of gestures, the brass or aluminum elements painted with quiet modulations of color or a bright burst of gold leaf. At Fuller Craft Museum, Davis has translated the fall of Icarus into a large-scale mobile installation. In the mythology of ancient Greece, Icarus was the son of Daedalus, the master craftsman imprisoned for aiding Theseus solve the labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur contained within. To escape, Daedalus fashioned wings of feathers and wax for himself and Icarus, warning n

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