At the moment my mind is very much taken by art-related issues since the Venice Art Biennale is opening this week and I’m curious to see the works of some contemporary artists who will take part in it.
So with contemporary art in mind let’s have a brief look today at a design by Xavier Brisoux that was showcased last Saturday during St Petersburg’s Aurora Fashion Week.
While the irregular stripes and messed lines in this design are inspired by anagrams and computer programming, its shape, the way it falls on the body and its colour made me think about Anish Kapoor's "Leviathan".
The largest artwork ever made by Indian-born British artist Kapoor (even larger than his "Marsyas" and "Temenos"), once inflated the 35-metre tall work turns into a 13,500 square metre awe-generating cathedral-like space made from PVC.
Part of the Monumenta - the indoor public art project that takes place every Spring at Paris’ Grand Palais – "Leviathan" was inspired by the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s eponymous essay about society and the state.
Dedicated by Kapoor to missing Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the work tackles notions of space and scale and how we relate to it.
Visitors can indeed get inside it as if they were entering a cathedral or the body of a whale.
This overwhelming artwork also tackles the themes of mutation and transformation: from the outside the Leviathan looks like a structure formed by four interconnected balloon-like elements, but from the inside it’s a sort of immense fuchsia-red globular membrane.
The futuristic structure also has some interesting connections with fashion: the material used must have been perfectly calculated and cut, otherwise it would have wrinkled ruining the entire final effect (apparently, the artwork was also the result of international teamwork as the PVC was cut in Germany but the structure was assembled in Italy).
This point is somehow connected with Brisoux’s design: though the latter is made using an unpredictable knitting technique that creates irregular stripes and lines, it must still be based on some precise mathematical calculations, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to create around the hem of the garment the asymmetric yet architecturally precise motifs that decorate it.
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Posted by: kistina | June 29, 2012 at 12:31 AM