New Toys

Amazing Sculpted Toys

"New Toys for Melancholics" is a solo show by "Pop Surrealist sculptor and philosopher" Gabriels. These toys are made from "polished hand-crafted bronze, life-like glass eyes, and scores of tiny internal intricate elements and organs." The opening is May 6th at the Toy Art Gallery in Los Angeles.

Gabriels stated, "Let it be clear: these are not sculptures, but toys and more precisely prototypes of Toys for Melancholics. They aspire to the industrial production on a large scale and to the indefinite propagation, in proportion to the planetary diffusion of the anguishastic-desperative Weltanschauung and of the consequent -- very legitimate, although not absolutely incontrovertible -- propensity to suicideness. In this sense, our Toys for Melancholics scrupulously respect all the standards of global melancholy quality in a petrified primeval landscape, addressing courageously to a public of adults, kiddies and lithopaedia."

I found this collection to be interesting. It looks like the art pieces could pass as home decor or even they could be minimized to be for worn as women's jewelry.