I don’t know whether I saw this on the net or in the library first, but I found Arne Quinze’s work really interesting. I quite like the principal, making an object out of lots of little things to create a form, which looks solid but in fact is not.
http://www.designverb.com/2007/09/19/cityscape-arne-quinze/The process must be very laborious, I have always wondered how these designs are made, whether or not the object is planned from the placement and fixing of the first piece and then painstakingly followed right to the last, or simply cobbled together – by the look of Arne Quinze’s piece ‘Cityscape’ former would seem true.This piece was made to be placed in Brussels in conjunction with the premiering of the Mini Cooper on 14 September 2007. The shapes give the impression of being geometrically formed, not unlike a computer-generated image that has been reproduced. Though on Arne Quinze’s website the opening page contains a quote which states:
‘I love chaos, I’d like to freeze one of those sublime moments when the logic of
chaos, the only thing that is real, reveals it’s incomparable beauty and harmony.’
So it seems that his choice, would be to avoid this kind of comparison.chaos, the only thing that is real, reveals it’s incomparable beauty and harmony.’
There is another similar piece he made called 'Uchronia', this was produced for the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada 2006, and as the name suggests, the sculpture was created as a centrepiece and burned during the festival.
When I first saw his work it reminded me of Anthony Gormley’s piece ‘Quantum Cloud’ 2003 which was designed using a computer programme that randomly recorded points from an image of Anthony Gormley’s figure, these were then rearranged in 3D to form Quantum Cloud, which is 30m high and made using 1.5in steel rods.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pawoodhead/131007750/Though I have not seen it apart from in pictures I think that the idea is very clever. I would imagine that it looks like a mass of metal rods, but then on closer inspection, the piece appears as a body within.
Going back to Qunize an interesting comparison, which he makes is the similarity of cityscape to a flock of starlings, a natural occurrence which creates awe in the spectator, and an absolutely stunning example of this was taken by photographer Richard Billingham, called 'Starlings Roosting on West Pier’ 23 October 2006.
Going back to Qunize an interesting comparison, which he makes is the similarity of cityscape to a flock of starlings, a natural occurrence which creates awe in the spectator, and an absolutely stunning example of this was taken by photographer Richard Billingham, called 'Starlings Roosting on West Pier’ 23 October 2006.
When you observe the Starlings, the curves and the lines they make when they group together and then divide seem to create clouds across the sky which are in constant movement. They do somehow relate to to the idea of an 'organised chaos'.
A FLOCK OF STARLINGS:
The final result has the astounding precision of a startled flock of starlings,
that hangs still in the air, just for one moment, in perfect formation, before
dissolving in a seemingly chaotic pattern, but without touching each other,
in perfect control. It is a moment in which the DNA of disorder reveals it's
order. Elements or particles that seem to be organised at random suddenly
synchronise and combine into a revelation of the sublime.
City Scape, Arnie Qunize, pg 19
City Scape, Arnie Quinze pg73.
Bidonville view 03.04.09
http://www.arnequinze.tv/#/en/works/bidonville-view-030409/
The final result has the astounding precision of a startled flock of starlings,
that hangs still in the air, just for one moment, in perfect formation, before
dissolving in a seemingly chaotic pattern, but without touching each other,
in perfect control. It is a moment in which the DNA of disorder reveals it's
order. Elements or particles that seem to be organised at random suddenly
synchronise and combine into a revelation of the sublime.
City Scape, Arnie Qunize, pg 19
City Scape, Arnie Quinze pg73.
Bidonville view 03.04.09http://www.arnequinze.tv/#/en/works/bidonville-view-030409/
