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Murray Favro

 
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(b Huntsville, Ont., 24 Dec 1940). Canadian sculptor. He studied from 1958 to 1964 at Beal Technical School in London, Ontario, and began working as a painter in that city in the mid-1960s. Soon, however, he questioned the relationship between life experience and traditional artistic methods, as a result of which he produced a wide range of constructions (representing guitars, aircraft and inventions) as well as installations using film or images projected from slides.

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Murray Favro is a Canadian artist based in London, Ontario, who works as a sculptor.

Favro has designed and built many guitars that are prized as both art objects and outstanding musical instruments. In the Nihilist Spasm Band, he concentrates on playing guitar with occasional forays into percussion. Favro's current body of work extends the work which occupied him during the late 1970s and early 1980s—work in which the artist reconstructed by hand, the machines and instruments belonging to industrial production. This painstaking process of construction becomes a way towards understanding. The function of these machines has been transferred towards being vehicles for knowledge and the imagination. Favro is represented by the Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto.

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