Bob
Rizzo
Ducksonge
Mixed
Media Assemblage
See more of this
work at Bob Rizzo's Website
Donated by
the Artist
Director's
note: I sent Bob Rizzo - one of the finest
self-taught assemblage artists working in America today - a box of
small found objects to induce him to make a work for the museum. A few
months later, this is what he sent. A wonderful fetish assemblage
sculpture with a wooden duck head on the wooden body of what might be
an african sculpture with collage material on it. I am not sure I can
identify all of the items attached to this work but they include,
various types of old nails, a mojo bag with who knows what in it,
leather, feathers, chain, wooden bead necklace, a horn of something, a
large tooth of something that I wouldn't want mad at me. rivets, glass
vile, bells, a padlock, bits of cloth, another horn, smashed bottle
caps, shells, bones, small wooden fenials, a milagro of a burro,
ribbon, a shoe string, a dream catcher, a quill and who knows what else
on a wooden base. The whole thing was then carefully patinaed with a
special secret mixture containing rust to give the work a visual
integrety. One has the feeling that the work is a fetish of a protector that
stands with a watchful eye ready to defend against injustice.
