Video: Extra Dimension: Wire Sketches by David Oliveira
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At the first glance at these works, it seems that someone was just painting a pen, tracing ink in photographs, or practicing quick sketches in their sketchbook. But, in fact, these are real three-dimensional sculptures. Portuguese artist David Oliveira bends and twists the wire until it takes the shape of a human figure or object.
The thirty-three-year-old artist David Oliveira was born in Lisbon, where he received a higher art education at the Department of Sculpture, and then defended his master's thesis, specializing in plastic anatomy. Apparently, Oliveira is one of the lucky few for whom the choice of education has become one hundred percent hit. He has an amazing ability to transform such unyielding and unforgiving material as rigid metal wire into weightless, but full of expression figures.
According to the sculptor, the knowledge gained at the university greatly facilitates his work: “In order to 'draw' an object, I must know and understand how it works. Knowledge of anatomy plays a very important role here, because human skin stretches and takes the shape of what is underneath. " "The structure is unchanged," adds the sculptor, "the difficulty of the task is to find a correspondence between the depicted object and the result of the work."
Interestingly, Oliveira's translucent disembodied figures are not just a defamiliarization technique that is widely used in the visual arts and literature, but rather an attempt to show the surrounding reality as the artist actually perceives it. “We live in a world that is ephemeral, like a dream or a memory,” explains David, “works of art must reckon with the nature of things.”
Some of his works literally float in the air, suspended from the ceiling on invisible threads. Confused, neural contours sometimes create a kind of stereo effect - it seems that the sculpture is about to start moving. Oliveira's art is characterized by a thoughtful exploration of how line and space interact. The artist assigns a special role to the latter, because his three-dimensional sculptures only indicate the volume, practically not filling it materially. In addition, the abundance of empty space, as it were, involves the visitor of the exhibition in creating a complete image. David argues that "the viewer plays a very important role in the process, since in order to see, he must fill in the gaps with personal memories, linking together the sculpture and his own life experience."
Although Oliveira's work is particularly artistic and expressive, he is not the first to create wire sculptures. Among the artists who work in the same genre are Chris Moss, David Zalben and Gavin Worth already known to readers.
Recommended:
Colorful sketches from travels in the Middle East of the 19th century by American artist Frederick Bridgman
The French capital has always attracted creative bohemians, it was a real haven for artists, writers and romantic people. Therefore, almost all new-fangled trends, styles and trends in art originated here. In our publication you will get acquainted with the works of Frederick Arthur Bridgman - one of the most popular painters who worked in the direction of Orientalism, which originated in France at the beginning of the 19th century and dominated the galleries of Europe until its end
As the heiress of the French aristocrats, she defended besieged Leningrad and painted sketches on the virgin lands: Irina Vitman
The fate of the Soviet artist Irina Vitman is full of contrasts. Childhood spent in bohemian Paris - and the defense of besieged Leningrad. Dreams of conquering the Arctic, traveling the world - and twenty years of a happy life in a deep province. And also - constant artistic experiments behind the screen of socialist realism. Irina Vitman did not rebel, did not go underground and did not create a new Soviet avant-garde, just as she was not a "socialist realist" artist. She just lived by painting
Wire Couture Collection: Haute Couture in Barbed Wire
The dresses that Leigh Pennebaker creates are very reminiscent of fashion illustrations in the photographs. But in this case, they would hardly stand out among thousands of their own kind. In fact, the stylish and graceful works of our heroine are sculptures made of rigid barbed wire
The twelfth dimension in microsculptures by Adalberto Abbate
If you believe the legends, there are 11 dimensions in the world, each of which lives its own life, according to its own laws, with its own joys and sorrows. Italian artist Adalberto Abbate discovered a new, twelfth "micro-dimension", created by his own hands. And it so happened that the tiny inhabitants of this dimension have to suffer a lot
The second dimension: Multifaceted pictures of reality that does not exist
Drawing inspiration from the natural environment of California and old Victorian homes, combining many disparate pieces, artist Lacey Bryant creates surreal narrative paintings with out-of-date elements that are often confusing. She uses repetitive motifs to portray the contrast between moments such as connection and isolation, decay and growth, life and death, good and evil