Ballerina Clown
Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 12:01AM
Fabian Lewkowicz in Public Art, Sculptures, Venice, art

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Jonathan Borofsky's controversial 30-foot-high sculpture "Ballerina Clown" graces the Renaissance building at the corner of Rose Avenue and Main Street on Saturday, February 23, 2008. The Ballerina Clown was fabricated in 1989 out of aluminum, steel, fiberglass and an electric motor that activates the extended kicking leg. This sculpture is an accommodation or resolution of opposites in one. Not only does this image bring the male and female together into one figure, but also, two opposite types of performers are represented: the formal classical ballet dancer and the traditional street performer.

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