Kurt Hutterli, a 3-D artist who often works with found objects, recently submitted this entry into the “ReVision: the Art of Recycling 2014 Exhibition” and was accepted by the jury. The exhibition will take place on Granville Island in Vancouver from Friday September 5th to Sunday September 7th.

Kurt explains the title of his work: “My statement: ‘A Triumphant Dictator and his Supreme Commander’ are connected with all the bad and sad news about dictators oppressing their own people and attacking other nations.”

The two objects are part of his ongoing installation project “The Museum of Unknown Civilizations”. Kurt creates art on the border between fantasy and history. By assembling his artwork from found objects such as rusted tools, appliance parts, wood, old glass, metal and plastic fragments, the result resembles  an “artifact” that has been unearthed from some hitherto unknown society. Kurt then imagines what the fantastical creation may have been used for or represented within that civilization, and adds it to his collection as if it were some archaeological find.