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Artist takes junk and transforms it into cool designer toys,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
When new technology replaces old, Todd Robertson couldn care less about the more sophisticated gadget or machine.
DVD players came out, there was a VCR on every corner. The best time for me is when people buy new technology. Whenever they upgrade,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they get rid of old stuff,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said Robertson, a designer who straddles the line between sculptor and renegade toy maker.
From each unlikely treasure trove he finds, he extricates the tiny inner workings and reconfigures them into packed tangles of screws,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], switches, gears, coils,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and wires. These mutant mash-ups add finely wrought mechanical detail to Robertson monster dolls.
These days, Transformers are once again grabbing attention with their robotic claws, thanks to the just-released blockbuster, Dark of the Moon. But Robertson has long been doing his own brand of transforming. He part of a designer toy movement with roots that can be traced to Godzilla movies and Japanese children action TV shows. From those,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the genre known as Kaiju - Japanese for beast - has grown for years. Kaiju toys are intricately designed monster figures made of heavy duty vinyl and embellished with protruding spikes, glowering expressions, and nearly microscopic fingernails.
Robertson customizes his creations with mechanical clusters and finishes them off with layers of paint, blending the carefully rendered detail of a fine artist with the splattered abandon of graffiti. It leaves me direction to do a lot of different things by enhancing, re-sculpting, and modifying, he said on a recent afternoon in the Beacon Hill apartment he shares with his girlfriend, Maiya Kinoshita,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who grew up in Osaka. They recently returned from a two-week trip to visit her parents in Japan. He spent lots of time in toy stores.
Toy makers and collectors in the Far East as well as stateside are among Robertson fans. Urban streetwear design circles have started paying attention, too. He received effusive reviews on blogs, and he up for the breakthrough artist of the year in the Designer Toy Awards. He had shows at the Good Life restaurant and Lot F Gallery in the Financial District, where he has a solo show in September.
He also earned the admiration of Bob Conge, the godfather of sorts of the designer toy movement. The former college art teacher and founder of Plaseebo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a designer toy shop,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], invited Robertson to collaborate on a limited edition series. They sold out in 24 hours.
haven seen anyone who doing custom work in figures make the kind of thing he does. It more complicated, colorful, said Conge from his upstate New York studio. a blending of the organic and inorganic. Nobody near as polished and talented. His father, a model-train fanatic, was always creating elaborate layouts and enlisting his son help. As Robertson works today,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he draws from his other passion: music. He played saxophone since childhood and attended Hartford Conservatory during high school.
taught me a sense of balance, he said. artists are more technically advanced, but they might not have a sense of balance. I can hear the pieces. When they get into tune, I walk away.
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