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INTERVIEW: designboom spoke with artist hajime sorayama and the exhibition's co-curator alessio ascari to hear more about their take on technology, dystopia, beauty and humanity today.
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the honeybees were invited to build their beeswax honeycombs around a 3D model of the original portrait of nefertiti.
azuma makoto is studying the changing life of flowers by taking them to frozen landscapes.
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described as 'a restlessly inventive artist', nauman has employed a wide range of media including sculpture, sound, film, video and neon.
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Reminds me of a giant birds nest – which is a good thing 🙂
This would be great in a more natural setting too. Imagine finding this in a woodland and being able to climb to the top to look out over the tree tops or at an ocean view.
I do agree that industrial design can transcend its purpose when simplified yet this is not an exercise in design; it’s art and therein lies the difference.
Cool.Probably much cooler in the flesh tho.
Ivan, you miss the point entirely. This is not an engineering project, it is an Art project! It is DESIGNED to be a confusing, rickety, organic, whimsical, human endeavor created by hands,not machines. If your highest aesthetic is the Apple computer then I shudder for the fate of all of us laughing, hairy, art-making monkeys.
Great experimental work ! Should be shown to bamboo basic design students about the many creative uses of bamboo and then ……. many years of research to make this lesson valuable . What will they do with bamboo poles and cords after the Biennale ? I suggest artists should know more about product life or ….. not ?
@CathS: possibly… but I don’t get the point of it. It’s not aesthetically pleasing either, at least to me. It looks more like the projection of a headache.
Everybody (or, almost everybody) can mess up, complicate things. Not a difficult task indeed. But, say, Apple is a winner because it simplifies things, rather than complicating them, which of course does not mean banalizing them.
Ivan, you have to admit that from a structural and engineering standpoint this is pretty amazing.
wonderful, what a wild thinking it is!
if Venice was not the background of those pics, this work would be nothing
philosophical engineering…?????