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Le
Grande Gras Maigre
(The Big
Fat Skinny)
"Inside every
obese person crouches an emaciated individual who wants desperately to
stay there.", Lügner quotes Dr. Cheval. Thus providing the inspiration
for the piece at left. Thought it appears to be one thing of questionable
gender inside another, this is actually one complete entity. Standing
nearly ten feet tall normally, it could reach a height of nearly 18 feet
when the croucher in the center stood up and extended its arm raising
the 'umbrella' top half. This creature speaks through the mouth on the
upper head. The entity inside never speaks though it occasionally will
use hand or facial gestures to communicate. The left leg, actually an
arm holding a cane, symbolizes the crutch of excuses for obesity. The
right leg, the bottom half of a human torso, symbolizes the normal ideal
average human body build. However, there is no genitalia here as well,
merely a large hole which, on closer examination, seems to serve no reproductive
nor waste disposal purpose. Lügners states that Dr. Pinder told him
that the hole did indeed have a purpose but never told Lügner what
it was.
This piece was actually sold to a wealthy Middle-Eastern businessman,
rumored to be a member of an Arabian royal family.
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The
Poet
If this piece, as
Lügner describes it, actually existed it would've been quite amazing.
Another surrealist piece, it was an obese creature nearly six feet tall
while seated, with an oversize head which composed and recited dark, surrealist
poetry on-the-spot in Russian, Chinese, Italian or French while at the
same time, accompanying pictographic 'cartoon balloons' emerged from a
huge mouth on the back of it's head.
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The
Voyeur
The answer to the
question, "What has ten eyes, one left foot and a propensity to make
rambling social commentary for hours on end?" It's cultured British
accent lended an air of class to this cute but disturbing piece of living
sculpture. Intended to be displayed on it's own pedestal, eyes of brown,
blue, gray or green watching everything, while it's mouth described and
commented on everything it's eyes could see.
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The
Suitor
This piece of kinetic
surrealist art is as humorous as it is frightening. A decidedly feminine
voice emanating from what suggests a male personage and a sexually aggressive
come-on created an experience not soon forgotten by anyone unfortunate
enough to get too close. An animated baldheaded man's head wearing a paper
mask. Functional forearms and hands attached to a wooden rod shoulder.
A lively spring serves as the upper torso, the genitalia are steel balls
hanging by threads along with a bone protruding from a round, fleshy belly,
complete with a navel. The right leg is an intricately carved wood clawfoot
table leg, the left leg is a birdlike claw clutching a short cane compensating
for that leg's shortness. One can imagine the thump-bonk, thump-bonk sound
of it's walk, it's head and and grabby little arms swinging wildly on
top of the spring, while it rudely propositioned anyone and everyone.
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