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Sculpture Magaine - May 2016 - Leslie Kaufman

Glassboro, NJ

Rowan University Art Gallery

Nikola Tesla, the “genius inventor,” has been brought back to life on the page, stage, and screen; in Jeanne Jaffe’s room-size installation, his “spirit” animates multiple cast resin marionettes (some life-size and some miniature). Each figure references a chapter in Tesla’s life as seen from the outside and imagined from the inside. Created as an interdisciplinary fusion of art, science, history, theater, mythology, and psychology, Elegy for Tesla allows viewers to accompany and interact with “Tesla” by experiencing moments along his life’s journey. Inspired by a theatrical performance on Tesla’s life, Jaffe found the perfect subject for her interest in an enhanced integration of art with science and technology. An earlier project, T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, had included small interactive marionettes that moved and spoke. Elegy for Tesla goes further—it mashes up time by presenting a life-size, robust, young Tesla and a smaller, wizened, old Tesla, representing high and low points in the life of a man famed for myriad inventions (Tesla coil,

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Art in America: Jeanne Jaffe / By Lilly Wei
the exhibition connected with the poems as a kind of “objective correlative,” a term Eliot used to designate the objects and circumstances that correspond to a specific emo­tion or thought. In this case, the focus was a perpetual revisiting of the places of one’s origin and formation (“In my beginning is my end . . . In my end is my beginning,” says the poet).

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Artist Jeanne Jaffe discusses her work, which includes a short film starring the marionette of Alice (behind her) plus a giant scale version of Alice with lungs emphasized. (Photo by Ken Kurson for Fine Art Globe)

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Inspired by an interest in language, literature, psychology, and history, Jeanne Jaffe’s work explores how identity and world view are forged from early, pre-verbal, experience through the ……….

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