Video: Michael Kalisch's 6.5-meter "REALIZATION": the art of punching bag portraiture
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A witty installation will open in Los Angeles on March 25. Its author, Michael Kalish, came up with a portrait of Muhammad Ali from punching bags. To look at the three-dimensional image of himself, his beloved, and at the same time to open the exhibition, most likely, the legend of world boxing will come.
We have long been accustomed to the fact that in the works of modern masters, ordinary things reveal their artistic potential. This is how a marvelous screw painting appears and installations are created from everything that comes to hand.
The idea of the project, called "ReALIze", came to the head of the artist and sculptor Michael Kalish back in 2008. One day, before going to bed, he imagined a portrait consisting of unusual "pixels" - punching bags hanging in the air. An impressive painting, the artist thought, but how to bring it to life?
The art of flat-surface portraiture, familiar to Kalish, is one thing, but the technique of volumetric installation is another. In order to calculate the position of all the pears and assemble a bulky structure, the author of the idea, Michael Kalish, turned to the architectural firm Oyler Wu. And she did not disappoint.
During the calculations, it turned out that the installation would require a huge amount of materials. But contemporary portrait art requires sacrifice. The project consisted of 1,300 punching bags, 10.5 kilometers of stainless wire and more than a ton of aluminum pipes. The result is a 6, 5-meter image that can only be seen from a certain point. Go to the side - and you will see only a bunch of punching bags dangling on a shiny wire.
The Los Angeles project is scheduled to open on March 25th. It is expected that the last pear in the installation will be hung by the person being portrayed - the great boxer Mohammed Ali.
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