Category: Sculpture

Thor Vigfusson’s wall sculptures

These wall sculptures by Icelandic artist Thor Vigfusson are terrific. He works with mirrors, plastic and glass in a formalist fashion with mainly subdued (but also sometimes bright) colour palettes. Reflectivity and light play an important role in the way they capture and represent the space in which they are installed.

i8 (a gallery in Iceland where Thor has exhibited) said this of his work:

Deceptively simple, his pieces are constantly changing and engage the viewer in intimate contemplation.

I couldn’t agree more.

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Kinetic Sculpture

Oooh this is nice!

The Kinetic Sculpture consists of 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires. Each sphere can be moved individually, and through some amazing software, moving shapes can be created.

The Kinetic Sculpture is created by ART+COM, a digital media design agency based in Berlin, Germany, for the BMW Museum in Munich, Germany.

ART+COM have animated a seven minute long mechatronic narrative – a dance in mid-air. (Thx, Floris!)

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Couple vases

The couple vases, made of porcelain, are designed by Germany-based Christine Ruff. Ruff, who studied ceramic design after an education in ceramics decorating, sees her work at the intersection of art and craft.

However clean and neutral it is, the form play of vases attracts your eye. Reflecting their form on the opposite, a bound is created between the two vases despite their outward differences.

“For a time like ours, when people’s taste seems to return to baroque, no-frills is rather refreshing, I think”

The pairs are available in either white or black matte glaze, or black and white.

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Neo Gramophone

Not minimalist, but I think you’ll enjoy the aesthetics: the Neo Gramphone.

At the moment, The Neo Gramophone is just a sculpture. The idea is however to give it a speaker function, so you can hook it up to your computer, or to give it Bluetooth connectivity.

The Neo Gramophone is the brainchild of German product design graduate Lars Amhoff, and his partner Christin Krause. The duo operates under the flag of The Substain. Their mottos are Quality over quantity and Art over empty design for the masses. Here’s what they say about the design:

The Neo Gramophone is the image, simplicity and feeling of a traditional gramophone transported in the 21st century.

I say: make it happen, guys!

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Donald Judd

Donald Judd (1928-1994) was one of the originators of Minimal Art, which it came into being in the 1960s.

Minimal Art reacted against the symbolism, spontaneity, and emotional intensity of Abstract Impressionism. Rather than expression, Minimal Art artists sought after objectivity. By removing ‘distractions’ like composition, theme, representation and so on, they wanted to allow the viewer to experience the work as a whole, and in its own respect.

Judd’s work is highly geometrical, and many of his works are arrangements of repeated, freestanding objects. Judd used humble and honest materials such as metals, industrial plywood, concrete and color-impregnated plexiglas. His works tends to constrast with their environment, creating an interesting tension.

Overall, Judd has led the way for many of his peers, and minimalism as such.

Respect!

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Papercuts

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” That’s what Michaelangelo said, some 500 years ago. I could also easily have been a quote from contemporary artist Peter Callesen, were it not that Calleson’s material isn’t marble – it’s paper.

When I look at a sheet of A4 paper, I see a printable object. Callesen however sees little stories, hidden within them: failytales, romantic encounters, or dramatic tragedies.

Through delicate cuts, the artist allows tiny, fragile figures to erect themselves from the paper – but without ever escaping where the material they came from.

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