History of Curved Origami Sculpture
by Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine. “There is a surprisingly old history to curved origami sculpture, going back to the 1920s at the Bauhaus. We give here a partial history focusing on the earliest known references.”
by Alex Hohlov, 2009.
Francois Roche, Stephanie Lavaux. much to explore in the new territories.
Furrow and untitled cedar sculpture
Ben Butler, Sculptures & Installations at Zg Gallery, Chicago. “The spirit of science, of discovery and illumination, is central to Ben Butler’s art. Ultimately, everything made is first found. Yet, for both art and science, successful work must allow others not to simply rediscover what you have discovered, but to make, through the work, their own discoveries. The work then remains alive. “
via toxi and generator.x
by Daniel Piker, using Tomohiro Tachi’s Rigid Origami Simulator software. video
via Space Symmetry Structure, related Ron Resch, oigami tessellation
kinetic architecture by autoxic. “This building does not have a definite shape. It is always changed by the occupation of people. The lifted up ground creates interior space for conference, lecture hall, theater, etc. This building is a new type of the monument disigned by human activity.”
a collection of patterns and graphical landscapes kept in pure black and white.
“Guilloché patterns are spirograph-like curves that frame a curve within an inner and outer envelope curve. They are used on banknotes, securities, and passports worldwide for added security against counterfeiting.” via wolfram Math World
The Origami-Inspired Folding Bamboo House
“Ming Tang came up with the idea for his Folding Houses after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck central China last May, killing 69,000 people. Upon learning that the Chinese government planned to create up to 1.5 million temporary homes, he decided to design a shelter that was easily produced, cheap and environmentally friendly. His geometric folding houses are beautiful, dynamic, and can adapt to respond to the needs of different situations.”
via Inhabitat
“The work of Jan van der Ploeg has it roots in Piet Mondriaan’s Neo plasticism and De Stijl movement connected to Theo van Doesburg. Jan van der Ploeg’s works of art connect painting, sculpture, system and serial production.”
Sol Lewitt: a wall drawing retrospective
A collaboration between Yale University Art Gallery, MASS MoCA, and the Williams College Museum of Art. listen to the podcast, or see one (wall drawing 1112) of many timelapse animations of Sol Lewitt’s drawings. the exhibition ” comprises 105 of LeWitt’s large-scale wall drawings, spanning the artist’s career from 1969 to 2007.”
by Victor Vasarely, 1967. £174,000 ($341,176), Christie’s London, Feb. 9, 2007. “In 1965, following his starring role in the Museum of Modern Art’s now-famous ‘The Responsive Eye’ exhibition, Hungarian artist and Op Art inventor Victor Vasarely (1906–1996) became an international art superstar.”
via artnet
by pablo valbuena. projecting onto three dimensional objects in space. physical geometry + virtual layer = augmented space. find more examples of using small scale and large scale non-plane projection surfaces objects on valbuena’s website. my favorite, “the hague city hall”, an urban installation at the todaysart 08 festival in the netherlands. view the video.
“a three-dimensional steel matrix inset with panels of living mosses and enclosed within by translucent volume. Moistscape allows visitors to experience the play in scale from the miniature of the floating mossy landscape to the actual one of the installation as a whole.” Design and Fabrication by Lauren Crahan, John Hartmann, Corey Yurkovich.
via frcll
felice varini
stumbled upon artist felice varini, once in a while i do that, so i leave a trace here. velini is best know for his geometric paintings onto architecture that can only fully be seen from one point in space. the image distorts as you move away from this one vantage point. by moving around the artworks it constantly changing and breaking into fragments.
see also christian moeller’s “turm of babel”
