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Kennedy and His Game

Kennedy and His Game

W 58.00cm x H 58.00cm x D 20.00cm

USD $1,200.00

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  • About this Kennedy and His Game

    Detail

    Medium

    Sculpture (Art object/ Ornament)

    Edition

    Original Artwork

    Year

    2022

    Sign

    Unsigned

    Frame

    Unframed

    Description

    Every president since my birth has a game in this series. The pieces combines the text from their inaugural speech with a board game that symbolizes their presidency.

    John F. Kennedy became president during a time of major paranoia around communism; the Red Scare and McCarthyism were rampant in American society. Although he served less than three years in office before he was assassinated, his presidency was incredibly impactful. In 1961 the Berlin wall was erected, solidifying soviet domination of Eastern Europe. 1962 brought the Cuban Missile Crisis. Tensions were temporarily eased in October of 1963 when Kennedy signed the Nuclear Weapons treaty. Against this Cold War backdrop, Kennedy pushed the Apollo program forward, to make getting to the moon by 1970 an attainable reality. The game Solar Quest is a perfect analogy to the space race. The goal of Solar Quest is to buy moons, planets and space stations and to ultimately own as much of our solar system as possible. The game mirrors Kennedy’s space race, putting money into the newly founded (in 1958) NASA to get a man on the moon before anyone else. While space exploration is an amazing thing, the race to the moon was about proving who was better and who could win.

  • About this artist

    Clint Imboden

    Clint Imboden

    United States of America

    Concept

    Clint Imboden
    Artist Statement

    Association arises from material, particularly material with preexisting contexts. When working in found objects the manipulation of context becomes the true medium. Found-object art is contradictory, the discarded becoming precious, and it is through this contradiction, the implied “but”, that rhetoric is formed.

    My work examines the way these inherited contexts are utilized socially and politically to construct the world we inhabit. My interest in both language and sociopolitical topics stem from a lifetime of working in community mental health, where decades of up close and personal experience led to pointed critique of the systems created to moderate, regulate, and maintain society.

    I visit flea markets and estate sales almost daily, searching for objects that draw me in: old shoes, dusty rolling pins, rusty shovels, and other cast-offs. Through alteration, manipulation, and multiplication, these neglected items are transformed into sculptures and installations that interrogate and deconstruct unseen social truths.

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