City Museum & Art Gallery - Exhbitions Programme

Sharmanka Traveling Circus

12 July - 6 September 2008

Mysterious, and darkly humorous, Eduard Bersudsky's amazing kinetic sculptures present an eerily magical theatrical performance - whirring, clicking, buzzing and clanking into action to tell their story.

Marvel at the mechanics, as a fantastical array of intricately carved wooden creatures, bears, birds, bell-ringers, monkeys, rats and elephants, narrate stories both comic and tragic, about the human spirit and the cycle of life and death. These sculptures, beautiful in themselves, leap into life at intervals throughout the day to tell their stories.