Fire-Breathing Robot Comes To Chelsea

CHELSEA, NY — A new exhibition featuring a giant, fire-breathing robot, among other mechanized works of art, opened this month in Chelsea.

The unusual work of art is part of a show from Survival Research Laboratories, a crew of people led by the artist Mark Pauline.

Survival Research Laboratories' latest exhibition opened on Saturday at Marlborough Contemporary gallery, 545 W. 25th St., in Chelsea.

Eight of Pauline's sculptures, all made between 1986 and the present, are included in the show, plus video footage from his past shows.

"Mr. Satan Head," made in 2007, is built from steel and breathes flames when activated by a remote controller.

Another work, the "Pitching Machine," uses a 500 cubic-inch Cadillac Eldorado engine and sequence of spinning tires to hurl word at speeds up to 200 miles per hour, according to the gallery.

You can watch the art in action here:

Most of the robots are built from steel and other scraps that has been abandoned.

Pauline's work "can be seen to represent a robust counterpoint to the convenience app and frictionless capitalism that Silicon Valley has enabled," the gallery said in a statement about the exhibition.

The exhibit is Survival Research Laboratories' first solo presentation in a commercial gallery.

The exhibition is open in Chelsea through Feb. 10

Image credit: Courtesy of Walter Wlodarczyk via Marlborough Contemporary