Video: Natural design: morphological sculptures by Haresh Lalvani
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"I'm interested in exploring the principles of design that guide nature," says a New York sculptor and university professor. Haresh Lalvani … The complex morphology of "balls", "seeds" and "eggs" that Lalwani creates seems artificial, but in fact it is built on the principles of natural sciences - biology and physics.
More recently, Lalwani's new creation, an ellipsoid called SEED54 two and a half meters high, it was installed right on one of the streets of New York - less than a block walk from the world famous Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). According to critics, "to passers-by, perhaps SEED54 seems like a mysterious antique statue." However, there are also more prosaic interpretations: "In my opinion, this is just an egg", - thinks the doorman of the hotel, right in front of which the sculpture is installed.
"I don't really care about this kind of feedback. Perhaps, everyone can interpret my works for themselves," Lalvani responds. The sculptor's morphological research is closely related to his main profession - teaching architecture at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. By the nature of Lalvani's activities, there are more than enough design delights of a person. In his spare time, he explores and tries to reproduce forms and structures constructed by nature itself.
Lalvani creates his works based on a solid scientific base. Interest in biology and physics makes the New Yorker in common with a number of other representatives of contemporary art - for example, the creator of geometric origami Eric Demaine and a researcher of wood texture Cha Jong-Rai … One of his main sources of inspiration, Haresh Lalvani considers the outstanding biologist D'Arcy Thompson, who tried to calculate mathematically the transformation of forms and the transformation of one species into another in living nature. However, the sculptor is attracted not only by dry calculation, but also by immediate aesthetics: "Almost everyone agrees that my work is very beautiful," Lalvani proudly states.
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