Re-submission for Dion

Mahmoud Bakshi "Sunset 2010" work is made out of plate cylinders and megaphones. Multiples of plate cylinders and megaphones are placed in a vertical position forming patterns and repetition of objects and form. There are 2 main sculptures that make up the artist work, Plate cylinders are stuck next to each other in a vertical direction resulting a very large sculpture. Megaphones in multiple numbers are placed in an circle bench in an upwards direction next to each other forming a object. The scale of the work is large and on purpose to get viewers attention with it size of the cylinders 6-10 meters high and 6 meters wide. The multiple megaphones audio in display is a broadcast from mosques around the Tehran fives times a day including a call at evening. The cylinders can manipulate viewers with the multiple lines in parallel in a vertical direction and taking viewers point of view in an upwards direction. The shape the cylinders form reminds of organs at church Cathedrals. I feel the cylinders are like buildings of a city and also reminds me of Superman Ice layout in the north pole in Jerry Siegel comic hero world. This work relates to Filipe Tohi "Hautaha" cause3 of the similar structure and identical tools they used to from their sculptures, the plate cylinders and Tohi's Steel poles are very similar in size and length.

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