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Howard Sandrofff
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SYMPHONIC STEEL
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Seven steel appendages stretch upward, each
gently twisted in space. With the press of a button,
they begin to rotate, their curls turning into
undulations that lend to the sculpture’s name:
Corps de Ballet (vimeo.com/415299403) —the term
used for the group in a dance company that perform
behind the soloist.
The piece is the latest by artist Howard Sandroff,
who, at age 70, is 10 years into creating metal art
after four decades of fame as a music composer
and professor. His gradual switch in artistic
mediums came when Sandroff suddenly found
himself unable to ...