Sculpture  

Jonty Hurwitz's nano sculptures were created using bleeding-edge technology.  Too small for the naked eye to see, the sculptures were created using multiphoton lithography.

Aartist Jonty Hurwitz’s new sculpture series recreates the smallest human form ever at 20x80x100 microns, a scale too small to be seen by the naked eye. According to Hurwitz’s website, the size of these sculptures approximately equals the amount your fingernails grow every 5 or 6 hours.

The sculptures, “Trust”, “Cupid and Psyche: The First Kiss”, and “Intensity”, explore the idea of science vs. legend, myth vs. reality.

They were created using a ground-breaking new nano 3D printing technology and a technique called multiphoton lithography. Ultimately these works are created using the physical phenomenon of two photon absorption. As Hurwitz puts it, his art is literally created with quantum physics.

When a light-sensitive polymer is illuminated with ultra violet wavelengths, it solidifies wherever it was irradiated in a kind of crude lump. Some of you may have experienced a polymer like this first hand at the dentist when your filling is glued in with a UV light.

If however longer wavelength light is used, and focused tightly through a microscope, at the focus point, the polymer absorbs two photons and responds as if it had been illuminated by UV light. This solidifies the polymer.





This two photon absorption occurs only at the tiny focal point - basically a tiny 3D pixel (called a Voxel). The sculpture is then moved along fractionally by a computer controlled process and the next pixel is created. Slowly, over hours and hours the entire sculpture is assembled pixel by pixel and layer by layer.

"We live in an era where the impossible has finally come to pass. In our own little way we have become demi-gods of creation. "Contemporary" art, in my humble view, needs to reflect the human condition as it is today, it needs to represent the state of society at the time of its creation," states Hurwitz.  "Take a moment to consider that only 6,000 years ago we were painting crude animal images on the walls of caves with rocks. We have come far. This nano sculpture is the collective achievement of all of humanity.  It is the culmination of thousands of years of R&D."


SOURCE  Jonty Hurwitz

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 Takahiro Iwasaki  

The artwork of artist Takahiro Iwasaki consists of small buildings and electrical towers that are excruciatingly small and delicate. The Japanese artist creates sculptures from the unexpected materials like electrical tapes, toothbrush bristles or towels and displays them alongside their source materials.

The artwork of Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki may be overlooked if you are not careful.  Not only are his small buildings and electrical towers excruciatingly small and delicate, but they also rest on absurdly mundane objects: rolls of tape, a haphazardly wrinkled towel, or from the bristles of a discarded toothbrush.

Only on close inspection do the small details come into focus, faint hints of urbanization sprouting from disorder.

Some of his pieces are topographical maps that have been carefully cut from thick rolls of gray and blue electrical tape. Many of these objects were on view as part of the Constellations show at Cornerhouse in Manchester back in 2011 and at C24 Gallery last year.

Iwasaki currently has a new collection of much larger works at the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at GOMA in Queensland, Australia.

 Design  

Mike Friton is a freelance shoemaker, weaver, paper sculptor and innovator with over 30 years of experience at Nike. In a short video, Friton, tells his story of how he came to be known as "The Innovator."

Mike Friton is a freelance shoemaker, weaver, paper sculptor and innovator with over 30 years of experience at Nike.

In this video from Cineastas, former track and field athlete at the University of Oregon and designer, Friton, tells his story of how he came to be known as "The Innovator."

In high school, Friton decided to join the school's track and field team, which would lead him to the University of Oregon where he specialized in the Steeplechase. The event required an athlete to jump over five hurdles and then move on to a water jump.

Designing and putting together his first shoe, Friton took into account the amount of weight the shoe had stepping out of the water. He then figured out how to include holes in the structure in a way that wouldn't damage the shoe’s integrity.

Friton is the type of designer that goes above and beyond by thinking of mind-boggling ways to expand the variation of athletic footwear.

 Gil Bruvel  

With the Flow series, Bruvel continues to celebrate the imaginative and the real, yet here his vision seems to penetrate the veil of material form. These striking, evocative sculptures, comprised of graceful sinuous ribbons of cast stainless steel, reveal an essential underlying fluidity that exists simultaneously within the physical, quantum, and metaphoric realms.

For his more than thirty-year career, artist Gil Bruvel has passionately followed an ever-changing, organic flow of artistic expression as it has moved through a series of mediums and forms.

Each one is a reflection of the artist’s aesthetic sensibility and thoughtful perspective at the time, while continuously remaining open to the inner nudges inherent in a truly creative life. In each approach—from his surrealist-inspired and fantastical imagery to three-dimensional functional and sculptural art, to the current Flow series—he has drawn on threads of creative stimulus and artistic mastery that began very early on.

Bruvel absorbed precision of hand and an eye for design from an early age watchin his cabinet maker father work. Studies in the fundamentals of drawing and sculpture began when he was nine. Later, apprenticeship in an art restoration workshop provided an excellent art history education with intimate, hands-on insight into techniques of the Old Masters as well as a fluency in 20th-century art.

By the time the young artist set up his own studio, he was combining these and other creative sources with a finely honed eye for recurring patterns and motifs in the natural world. In 1990 he settled in the United States and now lives near Austin, Texas.

 Li Hongbo  

At first glance, Beijing artist Li Hongbo's sculptures resemble typical white plaster models, but take a closer look, and pull it the true wonder of the art is revealed.

What at first look like delicate works of carved plaster are actually thousands of layers of soft white paper, carved into busts, skulls, and human forms by Beijing artist Li Hongbo.

A book editor and designer, the artist became fascinated by traditional Chinese toys and festive decorations known as paper gourds made from glued layers of thin paper which can be stored flat but then opened to reveal a flower or other shape.

He applied the same honeycomb-like paper structure to much larger human forms resulting in these highly flexible sculptures. Hongbo recently had a solo show at Dominik Mersch Gallery in Australia who made the video here, and you can see much more of his work on their website.

 Art  

Artists Patrick Plourde and Floyd Elzinga have both created giant pine cones from old re-purposed shovels.

Shovel Pinecones, credited to artists Patrick Plourde and Floyd Elzinga are actual old shovels re-purposed and arranged to look like giant pine cones just sitting there on a field.

In the image above, the re-purposing of these common, useful tools is doubly effective: partly that they get a new life as art; and partly that they are both realistic and surreal in looking like something familiar but being wildly out of proportion. The unexpected but perfectly natural resemblance of the shovels to pine cones is very effective.

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SOURCE  Recyclart

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