The satellite collection

credits: www.todayandtomorrow.net

The artist Jenny Odell creates art works out of Google Earth ©. Baseball fields, swimming pools and parking areas are some of her themes. She deals with details of our every-day environment which she cuts out of a satellite view and pastes them in new masterpieces. Jenny Odell looks the world throughout the satellite and makes a connection between the virtual reality and the real life.

She names her works “The Satellite Collection”: It’s a kind of “a top down view” in which she pieces together terrestrial images like a mosaic to express feelings like vulnerability, nostalgia and smallness. In this way, a modern web technology gets a new  aesthetic and becomes art.

Plasticando, la plastica giocando

plasticando

Navigando sul web abbiamo scoperto questo negozio online molto interessante: www.plasticando.biz. Plasticando si occupa della vendita online dei prodotti in acrilico e policarbonato, dei complementi di lavorazione e degli accessori acrilici e offre un impeccabile assortimento di lastre in PMMA, come le estruse trasparenti e a specchio o le colate colorate e bisatinate, di tubi in PMMA, come i colati cast continued o gli estrusi satinati e opal, di accessori come i pomelli, le sfere e le cupole in PMMA.

The light-cement

credits: www.stylepark.com

The light-cement is a compact cut stone of cement which is produced in blocks. The material is called Litracon (Light Transmitting Concrete). The aesthetics is really unique because of the light-transmissive surface it has. It is possible to see colored scale, colored light and forms too. Since September 2006 is realized a series production with a particular stuff for a new manufacturing process.

The first experiment that would combine cement and transparency was started by Mrs. Sabine Theiskrömer at the university in Germany at the beginning of the nineties.

Facades, stairs, ground floors and casings inspire creative people’s imagination. The purpose is to produce bigger sizes in the future given that light-cement represents the solution for designer, planner and architects in cooperation with substructure executive producers. The light-cement is one of the last discoveries of our time.

Shoes made of acrylic glass

credit: www.die-welt-der-schuhe.de

Acrylic glass is one of the greatest discoveries of 20^th   century. The applications of this material, like interior decorations, facades, design objects, hand rails or roofs, give a new style to everyday life. The transparency, the brilliancy and the stability of acrylic glass are guaranteed for years.

Acrylic glass has been used by fashion designers, too since 1941. During this period a world competitive fashion show was organized in Frankfurt. Shoes for women with bench made of acrylic glass were presented; they had to indicate a new type of woman. The exclusive design model was thought only for the high society because it represented luxuriousness and elegance. Margarethe Klimt was one of the most famous fashion designers at the time.

Nowadays, stylists like PRADA or FENDI design shoes with acrylic plateau and acrylic bench and complete their exclusive shoes range with elaborated acrylic designs. The new trend is successful and many stylists design a new line of shoes adding acrylic benches in order to valorize the product.

Smart Forvision

credit: www.hessen-nanotech.de

Die auf der Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung in Frankfurt präsentierte Smart Forvision soll das Auto der Zukunft werden. Smart hat für dieses Concept Car mit BASF kooperiert. Dabei setzt die Entwicklung auf Leichtbau dank spezieller von BASF entwickelten Kunststoffe, nutzt Energie besonders effizient und soll auch beim Temperaturmanagement neue Wege fahren. Allein an der Karosserie hat Smart durch die Verwendung von Kohlefaser statt Metall nach eigenen Angaben fast 150 Kilogramm gespart. Um das Gewicht weiter zu drücken, sind Kunststoffräder und dünne Sitzschalen montier. Das Dach ist mit transparenten organischen Solarzellen versehen, die zugleich als OLED für die Innenraumbeleuchtung genutzt werden können. Sie produzieren genügend Strom für die Komfortbeleuchtung, das Infotainmentsystem sowie für drei Lüfter, die das Auto mit Solarkraft an sonnigen Tagen zusätzlich kühlen sollen. Viele der erwähnten Innovationen, wie die Kunststoffräder, werden schon in zwei oder drei Jahren in die Serienproduktion eingehen, sagte Smart-Chefin Annette Winkler. Doch viele der Materialien und Technologien seien noch Zukunftsmusik, räumt Winkler ein. Der Weg für das Auto der Zukunft ist frei.

POLYMERIC ART

‘Variables – Patterns’

Unaltered Marine plastic objects found on the UK coast between 1994-2010 collated and created to reflect the mean temperature of the UK official summer of 2010. Made by Steve McPherson. A great example of intelligent recycling and sustainable Art.

http://www.stevemcpherson.co.uk/

Variables – Patterns

Michelangelo Pistoletto & Acrylics

Michelangelo Pistoletto is surely an exceptional artist, who worked with by that time new materials in the 1950ies and 1960ies. He represented a new thinking in the arts of his time. Not only did he use the new everyday material, such as acrylic glass, but he used it in a tricky way. Acrylic glass seems to be like a wall of invisibility. He mixes photographs and transparency and creates the illusion of cables hanging free in the air. What Pistoletto is doing different, he does not ignore the aesthetic value of acrylic glass, of mirrors, of people and lights. He integrates the viewer into the art work.

In 1964 Pistoletto showed a group of seven works at the Galleria Sperone. Amazing is the work “Double Stairs”, which is made of two acrylic glass sheets with the photographs of two ramps. The wise artist explained the same year: “A ‘thing’ is not art; but the idea expressed by that same ‘thing’ may be.”

The artists work had been showed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in two exhibitions lately and will hopefully be available to the public soon.

photo courtesy of the artist

http://www.pistoletto.it/eng/crono.htm

Hellmut Bruch – A very own idea of seeing Newton

The Austrian artist Hellmut Bruch has one aim when working: He wants to catch the glimpse of the virtual immateriality. And while doing this, his art-works turn out very esthetic. To me they represent an open beauty through elementary shapes. Bruch works also with modern materials, such as stainless steel and acrylic glass.

I came across his work “Hommage à Olaf Römer, Hommage à Isaac Newton, Hommage à Johannes Kepler”, which consits of three acrylic pieces. The first is a short cylinder. The second, which represents Newton, is a cube, and the third a pyramid. The choice of these three geometrical forms is repeating in Bruchs language. For example, in 2006 he realized a similar idea as a drawing in black, red and white.

His next exibition opens February 25 th at the Atlanta Gallery in Dresden.

Enjoy!

Your Geva-Blog Team!

Art Exhibition: Sechs Kontrapunkte für 22 Ringe

German artist Susanne Rottenbacher is presenting an amazing art installation at the Teapot gallery in Cologne. The title ”Sechs Kontrapunkte für 22 Ringe” means “Six Counterpoints for 22 Rings” and consists of six smaller arrangements, that create a complete “wholeness”. She started to work with light rings two years ago, which were till now single sculptures. The installation is innovative and takes the space of the complete room.

Rottenbachers rings are either made by transparent or semi-transparent plastics, equipped with LED internal lights, which are connected through a wire. Those lights are switching and changing and thus including the component time into the whole sensation, which reminds on early works of Atsuko Tanaka in the 1950ies.

The exhibition will opened yesterday and will continue till February, 18th at the Teapot Gallery, Bonner Str. 60, Cologne  / Germany. Please enjoy and comment your impressions on our blog!

Your GevaBlog-Team

Photography by Teapot Gallery

 

Evelyne Bermann: “I can realize shapes, which wouldn’t be realizable with glass.”

When GEVACRIL ACRYLICS exhibited at the K-2010 in Düsseldorf they had the opportunity to support the creative ideas of artst Evelyne Bermann. She lives in Lichtenstein and works with acrylic glass and fluorescent colors and goes beyond the imaginable. Bermann transforms the material, rearranges shapes and colors and takes us into a perfectly designed acrylic world. Seeing her pieces becomes entering and following this new world! To introduce Bermann’s art to you we present the following interview and recommend a visit to the artists website.

Which characteristics of acrylic glass made you decide to use this material artistically?

I almost use only transparent acrylic glass. This transparency appears to be light and elegant. It is this lightness that convinced me to continue working with acrylic glass. You can always see the levels in the back and you can include the crossovers or even make them part of the content. Besides there is light and an effect of light refraction.

Another advantage is the viscosity of the material. I can realize shapes, which wouldn’t be realizable with glass. Thereby I can exercise my own creative language, for example my wave-like lines.

It is as well very important to me that I can process the material myself and thus create my very own artworks.

In the end I think that there are plenty of fascinating new materials which surround us every day. But they still find seldom use in contemporary arts.

Your cubes and steles show plenty of shapes and details, which you worked out with an extreme precision. By using which means you can make this possible?

The processing of acrylic glass can’t be studied yet in public courses. Some years ago I got hints and papers regarding the processing. And the rest I learned by “trial and error”. Within time I worked myself into the territory of acrylic glass.

I tried out different cutting methods, different glues, methods of sanding and polishing and a lot more. Meanwhile I am quite experienced and owe four different types of cutting machines.

The reason for working precisely is probably my learned profession as a graphic-designer. I’ve studied and worked in this profession when PCs weren’t broadly available and people had to prepare everything with their own hands. I love to work with my hands and therefore I can work very patiently. For example, I usually sawed all curves and circles with a dekupier-saw (a motorized fret saw).

 

Not only do you work with different shapes, but further with various colors, as well using fluorescent colors. What meaning do colors have in your art works?

Colors are my big love and they are determinant for my art-works. Especially the reduced color range for acrylic glass is a real challenge to my creative abilities.

I fell in love with fluorescent colors, especially with their luminous edges. These colors were the main reason for me to switch to the material of acrylic glass.  They add their lines to the color patches and are like drawings in space, which further create a different image when changing the viewer perspective. So each object receives a multi-faceted design that can fascinate a viewer time and again.

 

Thank you so much Mrs. Bermann!

Your GevaBlog Team