Snake Dancing and Millennium Fountain

A Cermak Special, Berwyn, IL

The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion was established in 1986 to encourage and advocate experimental visual art which draws its form, content and working materials from late twentieth-century technology. In 1965, prominent mall developer David Bermant began to build a collection that has become the pre-eminent private assemblage of kinetic work. His legacy in the David Bermant Foundation is devoted to fostering the efforts of artists working with non–traditional materials, including energy, light, and sound.

“Snake Dancing” is a 6’h 8’w 4’d sculpture made of glass, stainless steel, wood, and light. It is a work that speaks to human relationships. The two figures appear to begin to lean on and depend on each other for support. The internal forms reveal an ordered chaos which we all have inside of us and must sort out before presenting ourselves to each other and the world. The internal forms make a reference to ladders being built as communication. The broken window forms represent moving from an observer to a participant in life.

It’s partner, “Millennium Fountain”, stood nearby.

Other Cermark Photo credits to www.cermakplaza.com/art and jdeubel/plaza/artlist.

1989