Showing posts with label plastic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plastic. Show all posts

Monday, February 25, 2013

Cocky Eek



Some great inspirational images from the work of Cocky Eek, using different transparent and reflective materials into natural environments, playing with wind and light forming interesting organic sculptures in the air. Into the post you can see Illumine and Scapes projects, in a previous post I posted several pictures from Blobs and Float (see here) which shows lab set-ups for exploration in equilibriums, floating rooms, and space toys in connection with the human body, interesting too! See more;

ILLUMINE

'The first corporeal form which some call corporeity is in my opinion light.' Robert Grosseteste

They become alive when starting to breath moving their inner light space the skin is the beholder of their integrity preventing themselves for being solved in outer space

Noctiluca miliaris, or “thousand nightlights”, or many people call it the "light of the sea". It is an organism which looks like a transparant balloon with a small tail. It produces that bioluminecense light of the sea, to scare of its predators. One summernight I swom with a transparant costum stuffed with small glow in the dark sticks in the nortsea. I was an obvious enemy; the Noctilucaas started to flash their lights and intermingled with my the "glow in the darks" of the costum. Only a few passengers were witness of a luminous phenomenology and all what's left is a picture of an empty costum after the performance..."





SCAPES

"White Sands Various forms of dunes are found within the limits of White Sands in New Maxico. Dome dunes are found along the southwest margins of the field, transverse and barchan in the core of the field, and parabolic dunes occur in high numbers along the northern, southern, and northeastern margins. These dunes contain solely of Gypsum which is rarely found in the form of sand because it is water-soluble. Normally, rain would dissolve the gypsum and carry it to the sea. The Tularosa Basin is enclosed, meaning that it has no outlet to the sea and that rain that dissolves gypsum from the surrounding Mountains is trapped within the basin. The dunes constantly change shape and slowly move downwind."



Thursday, January 31, 2013

Nicolas Deshayes



"Nicolas Deshayes’ sculptural installations use materials such as stainless steel and PVC to embrace the glossy aesthetics of 21st century design.  Despite such fascinations, his works maintain a human presence in the forms of glutinously rich, bodily allusions, which engage with materials in ways that distort the ordinary."- Jonathan Viner Gallery
Deshayes states, "I create hybrid sculptures that gather multiple familiar cultural and stylistic references in a way that leads to a strange sense of hyper-materiality." See more;

It was beautiful to see irl Nicolas' Vanille piece in a recent group exhibition at Cell Space Project curated by Attila Fattori. I appreciated to see the texture and relief onto the vacuum-formed plastic, this three-dimensional forms and the bright and glossy aspect reminded me a lot of digital based textures, so the "hyper-materiality" state that Nicolas generates it's pretty good. By the way it was a great exhibition featuring works by several artists I like, there is a review about the exhibition at Rhizome.

Nicolas Deshayes is exhibiting a new work created this year in a group exhibition in London, at Jonathan Viner Gallery until next February 16.  More info here.


Slugs, 2012 
Annodised aluminium, vacuum-formed plastic




Browns In Full Colour, 2012
Polystyrene, aluminium and powdercoated steel - Annodised aluminium, vacuum-formed plastic.




PRECURSOR, 2011
Vacuum formed plastic, powder coated aluminium, neoprene foam




Vanille, 2012
Vacuum-formed plastic, zinc-plated steel, alumium and neoprene foam