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This sculpture, entitled "Balancing Act" depicts an upside cane with a disk balancing at it's top. The artist is John Adduci and it is dated 2011.

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"Balancing Act
By John Adduci
15’ x 4.5’ x 4’ / Aluminum
Location: Stockton Dr. and Webster
Grandmother's Garden, Lincoln Park..
Sponsor: Newsweb Corporation
Lakefront Sculpture Exhibit [LSE} 2011..."

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"John Adduci’s sculptures have been featured in shows and museums across North America, from Denver to Manitoba, Canada. The artist’s broad appeal is his talent for finding a simple, meaningful image and bestowing upon it a sense of spectacular wonder. He often recreates a single symbol or idea in gleaming aluminum, steel or bronze, buffered to reflect sunlight in wispy, electric streaks.

“Balancing Act”, Adduci’s shimmering submission to this year’s LSE, appears to pay homage to the hard hustling street performers from cities around the world whose livings are as precarious as a spinning plate. A living that is not too dissimilar from that of a sculptor whose job it is, in Adduci’s words, to “excite our intuition to explore, to see all sides,” and create an “on-the-street experience with art.'”

Title: Balancing Act Artist: John Adduci Media (materials) used: aluminum Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Lincoln Park, Chicago Date of creation or placement: 2011

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Date Logged Log   06/24/2011 Metro2 visited it