L’artiste espagnol Maximo Riera a imaginé une série de chaises miniatures imprimées en 3D à l’image de divers animaux. Des représentations très réussis utilisant la forme de l’éléphant, du rhinocéros ou encore du scarabée qui peuvent être achetées à la boutique de l’iO Art Gallery. Plus de détails dans la suite.
In a small suburb north of New York City we met Thomas Doyle, a sculptor whose miniature works reveal an interesting view of his characters’ lives. Doyle constructs frozen scenes of surreal domesticity and suburban…
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Le designer Kevin Spencer revisite le célèbre fauteuil de Charles Eames façon miniature. Réalisé en impression couleur 3D et à une échelle de 1/20, le résultat est impressionnant de détails. Un projet vraiment saisissant à découvrir en images et en détails dans la suite.
Déjà auteur de l’excellente série Disparity Miniatures, le journaliste et photographe américain Christopher Boffoli basé à Seattle revient avec de nouvelles photographies de miniatures, révélant à nos yeux de très sympathiques mises en scène. Des images drôles à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
A Frank Lloyd Wright design you can safely demolish and rebuild again without fear, the new Pop-Out Guggenheim Museum is an entertaining eight-piece puzzle conceived by Atlanta-based artist Marc Tetro. The simplified cardboard version comes packed flat, and the large components easily pop out and fold up allowing anyone…
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Pasta boxes become microscopic museums
A collection of dioramas by artist Kenji Sugiyama, “Institute of Intimate Museums” proved to be one of the most engaging displays at Scope Basel 2012. Spanning the artist’s output from 1999 to 2008, the works serve as clever variations on traditional diorama art—cramped consumer boxes containing lilliputian scenes of museum-goers standing in halls of shrunken art. Within the setting of the fair, Sugiyama’s museums forced attendees to reflect on the nature of observance and perspective in the contemporary art scene.
The “Institute of Intimate Museums” filled the entire booth held by Japanese gallery Standing Pine Cube. Sugiyama’s impeccably detailed interiors are head-scratching for their complexity, and his choice of packaging—that of a post-consumer food containers—likewise had viewers guessing. The most visually complex piece involved an angled mirror doubled the miniature world when viewed correctly. The artist went to great lengths when remaking the art world’s hallowed halls, covering them in everything from inlaid wood to dated wallpaper.
Scope Basel 2012 marked one the few times that the full spectrum of Sugiyama’s dioramas has been on display, and the collection provided us the opportunity to see his experimentation over time with voyeurism and the spectator’s role in art.
See more images of the “Institute of Intimate Museums” in our slideshow.
Images by Josh Rubin
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