Cyber Fauna :: Sculpture Series by Theo Kaccoufa, London, UK

Cyber Fauna

The theme of genetic modification continues from flora to fauna. In this series of works, the bears have strange distortions such as squid tentacles or wings. Here nature is not tamed in the familiar image of the ted bear, but modified and manipulated hinting at sinister implications for the future.

Multimedia work, wire sculpture and maquettes. Materials include: polyester resin, aluminium foil, aluminium paint, mild steel wire, steel, brass, silver solder, lacquer.

GM Bear series

Genetically modified bears, editions of 10

GM Bears installation view, The Real Ideal, Millennium Galleries, 2005.

GM Bears installation view, The Real Ideal, Utopian Ideals and Dystopian Realities, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, 2005.. Centre: Super Delight.

"The series GM Bears refers more explicitly to a science fiction style future. While still recognisable as the comforting childhood toy they now have strange distortions such as squid tentacles or wings. Here nature is not tamed in the familiar image of the ted bear but modified and manipulated hinting at sinister implications for the future."

Excerpt from Real Ideal exhibition catalogue

BBC: The Real Ideal, Millennium Galleries

Press Release: Culture 24: The Real Ideal

Millennium Galleries

Daisy Bear White

Limited Edition Print

2007

Giclée on Somerset Velvet

594 x 420 mm

Edition of 10

Daisy Bear White limited edition print was created to celebrate 10 years of the Stanley Picker Gallery and 30 years of the Stanley Picker Fellowship Programme.

www.stanleypickergallery.org

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UBE Biennal selection process, left: Daisy Bear, prized maquette.

Selection process, UBE Biennalle 2007, Japan

Daisy Bear, maquette, prized model at the UBE Biennalle Model Competition, 2007, Japan.

Garden Bear

Kinetic sculpture with walking motion.

2013, mild steel rods and wire, nuts and bolts, recycled metal cans, aluminium, MDF. foam insulation, electric motor and paint, 102 x 41 x 22 cm.

Garden Bear is a fairy tale character for the atomic age.

Tic-Toc

Bear sculpture with walking motion. Kinetic bear by Theo Kaccoufa, video and sound by Theo and Glauce Cerveira.

Daisy Bear

Daisy Bear, maquette

2006, mild steel, silver solder and paint, 39 x 25 x 14 cm.

Daisy Bear is an unnatural anomaly: a cute and cuddly transgenic totem of flora and fauna melded together to form a bear made out of skeletal daisies.