gizmodo.com: There's something otherwordly about the optical illusions a single string—or 3,000 of them—can conjure up in our brains. It's almost as if a simple fiber installation holds a gateway to a whole other dimension—when, in fact, we're just looking at lines in space. Here, we take a closer look at seven visionaries who can create entire new environments using the most delicate materials.
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I am amazed by the intricacy of these works. For the more linear works, I would be interested to know what kind of planning went into the pieces and how much was discovered on site. The artist Chiharu Shiota opened an installation in September that is similar to the work pictured here and is magnificent. I love the way all these pieces interact with their spaces and the ambient lighting.
Its amazing how something so simple like a piece of thread can become a fascinating work of art. Some of these images don't even look real and seam as if they could be computer graphics. I also love the range in techniques these artists use to create their installations. Gabriel's approach to her design is more traditional when compared to Jeongmoon's neon illuminated style. I continued to research the individual artists on their websites and they are so talented. I love how you can take such a simple concept and make it compelling. These installations remind me of our line and form installations, but just on a super intense level. I love how you can take any medium imaginable and create such a diverse range of designs from that one item.
This is the sort of modern art that I can really get excited about. The first five of these just completely blew my mind. I have no idea why thread never crossed my mind as a medium that could be beautiful in line form. I especially love what some of these artist have done with color. Its amazing how when they place it at the right angle it can achieve this sort of shimmering-air quality. That said though the last two installations were quite a let down after seeing the first couple. Thread can be an amazing medium but clearly there is an easy way out when working with it. It is just like what we learn hear, there are many ways to do the exact same project but if you don't push yourself beyond your limits you will just end up with something average.
Every time I see an art piece made out of thread, I am always so intrigued. The one thing all of these installations have in common is that upon looking at them, you cannot tell they're made of thread. In my opinion it's what makes them so amazing. I always enjoy looking at them, but I also know how long they take to make. Gluing individual threads down in perfect array is hard enough, but making complex designs in 3-d space with is is almost impossible. I also really appreciate thread-art because threads are about as close as we can get to a 1-dimensional space (ie. a perfect line with no volume or footprint). That's something that's fascinating to me.
Nig Non for them!!
I enjoyed most of the artist works.
Gabriel Dawe
I liked his the best.The thing that I love is how the shapes blend together and then separate apart. Really messes with my head.
Faig Ahmed
I feel classical work and I feel it speaks to my roots.
Wies Preidje
Visually is not my favorite but structurally really blows me away. I want to walk around them and seem how they work.
Jeongmoon Choi
The first one he has on the page I like the second one most definitely does not speak to me. Walking around a space of the first design would really mess with my head.
David Ogle
I rate his just kool and the kool meter. Just the lighting and how the effects work. The strands of whatever seem like lasers!!! LAZERSSS!!
Sebastian Preshoux
Optical illusionistic but not my fav.
Chiharu Shiota
Slightly scares me. nough said
I found this article a few times in the last 2 years and it is really impressive to see the interpretation on manipulating lines to create such divers projects but in all of the freshman line projects that have come through I am surprised to see that there haven't been any that manipulate color with hue and saturation through strings like most of these pieces do. Granted the project parameters require manipulating a form with string but it would be interesting to see what an exuberant freshman might be able to do one of these years within purnell.
This is really fascinating to look at how lines can transform a space. It remiss me of some of the line projects that the freshmen deign and production student did for the basic design class. The changes in color as the threads interweave and overlap is a really neat affect. I liked the work of Wies Preidje because her installations were much more physical looking and more structural. However, I also enjoyed Chiharu Shiota's work because of its non-linear qualities. The others seem so planned and organic, where these are more rigid and non-directional.
The pieces in his article were incredible. It's so fascinating that something so light and thin can have such a presence in a space. I've always liked playing with string, and in two of my Susan Tsu projects this year I did. It's so cool how it changes perceptions of color and space, and how things can look unreal when done with such thin materials. I don't have a favorite of the works that were pictured, but I love what Gabriel Dawe does with color. Also, for some reason Sebastian Preschoux's piece reminds me of a really cool art installation called Big Bambu.
I found it interesting how all of the installations were not just purely line. Most of them incorporated light somehow, and in most cases, the lines themselves created a physical path for the light to move along. I wasn't blown away from Faig Ahmed's or Wies Preidje's pieces, but I'm sure these installations give off a different effect when a viewer sees it in person. I found Dawe's fascinating because of his technique on fading out solid lines. In the areas where lines are layered over one another, the piece becomes more solid, but as the lines thin out along the edges, the piece becomes blurry. I think this is a great trick to play on the eye because the viewer starts to question "What is actually there?" I also love Chiharu Shiota's work, and I REALLY need to get my butt over to the Mattress Factory (he has an exhibit there until May). It almost brings a 3D Jackson Pollack to life. His use of a fractured, chaotic structure and a solid object (a staircase, or a door) creates a really nice combination. The chaos is complex, while the solid objects are simple, and the combination is visually appealing to the eye. I think the more successful pieces gave more form and depth to the lines, while the less successful ones (at least in my opinion were Ahmed and Preidje) were more 2D because they were flattened by light. Overall, I think this was a very good list to view and study.
I am very amazed and thrilled to see the pictures of these artworks and this article makes me want to visit each installation to see what it might actually feel like. Also, I was surprised how each artists applied the use of thread very differently. This article also brought me back to the memory when I had a line project in Basic Design class. Even when our class had this project, each group came up with different interpretation on line and ended up with very different installation. For Gabriel Dawe's installation, I really love how her elaborate array of thread creates delicate rainbow or fog mood. For Wies Preidje's "hand-woven walls," it gives me a feeling of living in a world entirely composed of lines. For Jeongmoon Choi's artwork, it automatically brings me to somewhere completely distant from the Earth. I really wish to see some of artworks someday!
after working on our installation projects for Susan Tsu's basic design class at the beginning of this year, it is fascinating to see how these installations can take a simple material and redefine a space. If we had had more time and resources, I think it would have been interesting and fascinating to create a more fully immersive experience with medium that we used for our instillation project. My favorite piece in the article, by David Ogle, is very simple in structure but also uses light and reflection to transform the space into a surreal and beautiful area. I would love one day to work on a more thought out installation, one in which I would have more time and resources at my disposal.
This use of string was absolutely stunning. I can barley fathom the time and patience that it must have taken to create these installations. I remember how during the line project the yarn kept getting tangled no matter what I did to it. When I look at these pieces especially the one with the rainbow colored strings, I am simply in awe of these designers patience and determination to make strings into an entirely new realm. I would be interested to see how a performance art piece could be incorporated into these environments.
Without a doubt, these artists would have easily received an A from Susan on her line project. It is remarkable how multiple artists can all take something as simple as a line and create completely different experiences all over the world. It would outstanding to see what would come from a collaboration between all of these artists.
Ahhhhh! Will the string project never end!!!! This is amazing though. I would absolutely love to be able to see all of these in person! I feel like the pictures of them dont do the actual pieces any justice at all. The amount of things you can do with string, or line is just amazing which is why i think the project Susan assigned us was such a good first project to do. Line shape and form make up everything in life but are over looked all the time. To be able to recognize line and form you can start to think out side of the norm, allowing you to control your own design. These exhibits exemplify that perfectly. They're just using string, simple line.
Wow! This are really incredible and I would love to see some of them in person. The use of color and the manipulation of light through the strings in these pieces is incredible. These works and their use of strings really dwarf what the freshman DPs have to do each fall in comparison. One thing that i think really makes these projects cool and that we were not allowed to include in our projects is a manipulation of light to accentuate the form. I think if freshman in the future are able to use line, form, and light for the project, it could elevate it to a whole new level.
It is amazing how much detail these artists capture with their use of thread. I can't fathom how frustrating it would have to be to install all of that thread without breaking any of it. I wonder if next year's freshman DP class will see this before completing their line form project, because this seems perfect as inspiration for that.
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