Video: The Dragon: 40,000 buttons golden dragon. Kinetic sculptures by Robin Protz
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Life is space and movement, and installation is probably the only genre of contemporary art that can be called "living", based on these two components. Although, kinetic sculptures can also be called "alive", which occupy the border niche between installation and sculpture, hovering in the air both literally and figuratively. American artist Robin Protz - one of those who prefer to develop this particular direction of contemporary art, surprising and delighting grateful viewers with her masterpieces, such as sculpture the dragonfloating in the air on hundreds of the finest threads. We have talked about kinetic sculptures on Kulturologii. Ru more than once. These are sculptures from stones by the Korean author Jaehyo Lee, and "floating" sculpture-installations from charcoal, and sculptures from buttons Augusto Esquivel (Augusto Esquivel). Robin Protz also created her golden dragon the Dragon from buttons, which she needed no less than 40,000 pieces.
To construct a large-scale sculpture in the shape of a golden dragon, the artist needed gilded buttons of various shapes and sizes: decorative and laconic, ordinary and decorated with rhinestones, flat and convex - all kinds that could only be found. And she had to string all this wealth for a long time, methodically and carefully on fluorocarbon threads, now and then referring to the drawn and marked diagram. The result is a handsome dragon hovering between heaven and earth, gleaming with gilded "scales" in the daylight.
Hanging in the air, the golden dragon the Dragon by American artist Robin Protz was presented to the public in September at the ArtPrize 2012 exhibition-competition. named Nelligan The Dragon. It was created by Robin Protz in 2008 in memory of school friend Maureen Nelligan, who died of leukemia at the age of 16. Then only works created not earlier than three years before September 2012 are allowed to participate in the competition. However, this unfortunate incident does not detract from the merits of the talented artist. Her sculptures can be seen on her personal website.
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