Eugene Weekly: Visual Art

Free-Form: Sculpture
At Maude Kerns through May 26.
BY SYLVIE PEDERSON

"With Randy Polumbo (New York), we abandon any search for form and aesthetic appeal in favor of quirky kinetic assemblages of unlikely found objects and recycled materials. Six inflated condoms fastened to a small motorized pump move like fat stubby tentacles in a sluggish current (Rover 3). In Manifest II, another inflated condom, tied like a roast and fitted with solar cells and electronics, becomes a blimp in the sky where a Probe also hangs, its rubber nipple armed with a trio of solar cells, its rear-end ornamented with the triple petals of a pink propeller. Delightfully absurdist, Polumbo's work takes its place among the various descendants of Marcel Duchamp..."

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