Murray Favro

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Murray Favro is a Canadian artist based in London, Ontario, who works as a sculptor.

Favro has designed and built many guitars that are prized as both art objects and outstanding musical instruments. In the Nihilist Spasm Band, he concentrates on playing guitar with occasional forays into percussion. Favro's current body of work extends the work which occupied him during the late 1970s and early 1980s -- work in which the artist reconstructed by hand, the machines and instruments belonging to industrial production. This painstaking process of construction becomes a way towards understanding. The function of these machines has been transferred towards being vehicles for knowledge and the imagination. Favro is represented by the Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto.