Video: "Black Hole" and "Dead Star" by Michel de Bruin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
An interesting tendency can be traced in contemporary art: authors like to take ordinary, unremarkable things that we encounter every day and "look at them from the other side." So, on bicycles you can not only ride, but also create from their parts sculptures birds and animals, the Barbie doll is not only a toy, but also material for fashionable ornaments, but it turns out that you can draw with nails paintings … The tradition of turning everyday objects into works of art continues our today's hero Michel de Broin.
The name of the Canadian Michel de Bruin has already appeared on the pages of our website when we talked about his attempt to turn Paris into a huge dance floor … However, today we will talk about another aspect of his work - sculptures. The author awarded the two most curious of them with cosmic names - "Black Hole" and "Dead Star", although the materials for their creation were used the most earthly.
So Black Whole. A huge ball with a diameter of 4 meters, very reminiscent of a sea urchin, is made of … 72 ordinary office chairs. The structure is supported by the furniture legs fastened together, and in the middle it is empty. The author compares his sculpture to the immune system: “Chairs protect themselves by blocking and pushing away objects around them” with their play-like legs.
Another "space piece" - "Dead Star" (Dead Star) - made from a variety of used batteries. True to its name, the sculpture "slowly cools since no electrical activity occurs in it." Interestingly, while no longer able to be a source of energy, batteries nevertheless became a source of new life: the life of a work of art.
You can get acquainted with other examples of Michel de Bruin's work at his website.
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