Friday, July 01, 2016
At Midnight, a 150-Year-Old Building Becomes an Ancient Forest
The Creators Project: A simple geometrical mural evokes the Ancient Egyptian pyramids. Open the door, and enter a second mural, this time of a magical forest with branches protruding in three dimensions. This detailed multi-room mural uses the architecture of a 150-year-old building in Jerusalem as the setting for a breathtaking 3D installation. Kobi Vogman, a muralist and animation artist, created this mural for Jerusalem art collective Bait Rek’s underground squat art factory, HaMiffal, which translates from Hebrew as “factory.”
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This art is amazing.
In these years interior murals have increased their importance, and gradually replaced wallpaper and many simple hanging wall decor, but most of them are still decorative arts, which focus more on practical function rather than visual exhibition, differ from conventional forms of fine arts (painting, photography, sculpture, etc.) But this piece of work shows more of the aesthetic aspect of interior murals, and its 3D component really increases the depth of this work in a very limited space (as shown in the video), makes the thrilling atmosphere more dramatic, and reminds me of a theatrical scene set.
It's also very interesting how it's set in a 150-year-old building in Jerusalem. Old, especially abandoned, buildings have great artistic potentials, and allow artists to express their inspirations and transform them into amazing forms. This includes the buildings and factories left from the industrial age, and I believe this can be usefully applied to the city of Pittsburgh.
Simply put, this is just insanely awesome. I love buildings being turned into works of art, it’s just great when abandoned places find beauty. This particular installation is interesting because he moved the outside inside, but it’s an eerie outside, just black and white, so it looks like it’s a forest during the night. It reminds me of the necromancer scenes in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies. What reminds me of that is the effect that happens when one paints a road on the wall so it looks like one can walk into the scene. The 3D branches are really cool, like the art is coming to life. The artist also used his surroundings well, like he used the cieling light as the moon, and the close space of the room for the viewers to feel like they’re actually in a close-tree’d forest. I think the whole mural screams fantasy all over, with the actual building on the outside, then a mural of buildings on the inside, then a forest in the smallest chamber. The idea of a forest inside a building is just pure imagination.
I absolutely adore the textures and dimension of this art piece. The temple-like outside with all the depth and detail appeared truly 3-dimensional and the geometric figures around it drew the eye all about the wall in a way that brought attention to the door in the center subtly after the whole of the image was taken in. The style of the outside brought question to what lies behind the door way, where the smallness of the room behind it and the decision to make the trees so tall really made the doorway seem like a portal. The contrasting textures and dimension of that space made it feel like a true forest space that offered room to walk, so I believed the room was far bigger than it actually was before I watched the video of the process. The addition of the tree limbs that popped out only emphases the realness of the forest image despite the fact that no color was used at all. The perfect amount of busyness present in this piece allowed the mind to place color into the image exhibit as I saw it.
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