contemporary art: 2D,3D,4D painting sculpture installation “…F1 Papillon” by KIA
by KIA 2009, Mixed media on aluminum; dimensions variable. Website Link: web.mac.com DESCRIPTION: A 2D-3D-4D Painting/Sculpture/Installation A two-dimensional painting, hung three-dimensionally, to be reconfigured over time. The initial image is a lepidoptera wing containing a collage of hundreds of aircraft blueprints. The Initial sculptural configuration is a form suggestive of a cocoon, an airplane cockpit, an aircraft engine. The 27′x16′ flat painting (on 288 aluminium panels) are hung three-dimensionally over, through, and around a metal infrastructure. (In this iteration, the sculpture is of 12′ hx 5′ widest diameter.) TITLE: Acceleration still; Cocooned escapes, you; my F1 Papillon The 2D elements are the work functioning as a flat painting; a butterfly wing (the beginning image of the work); the aircraft blueprints; the initial 12′ x 6′ line-drawing (in metal) of a jet fighter/butterfly wing that becomes the sculpture’s infrastructure; the words found on the blueprint schematics; the thin aluminium panels on which the work is painted; the shadows thrown by the sculpture. The 3D elements are the cocoon/fuselage/engine sculputural arrangement (and future sculpture/installation reconfigurations); the XYZ axis arrangement (for structural support of the painting) of the component parts of the metal line-drawing. The 4D elements are the painting/sculpture as it’s rearranged/deconstructed over time. Panels and sections can be regrouped, shifted, spun, etc; the work can …
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The reconfigurable painting/sculpture series (past and ongoing), as a whole…
…function like a quantum wave but exist as a quantum particle (all possibilities collapse to the current iteration of the work.)
…are about potential–each piece contains all previous and future combinations…
…Is like music; the ‘notes’ are the panels; the work ‘samples’ (uses collage); like a song, can be interpreted by someone else (uniquely arranged by the owner, etc.)
CONT’D
The work…
…is also about the unknown– the idea that the work will have completely unforeseeable versions in the future…
…touch upon the idea of the non-linear, in the sense the digital/random-access ability to take pieces (bits) of the work and shift them anywhere…
…invite participation…the audience/owner/curator is able to become involved in the works (mentally, as in “What if…”, and/or physically constructing or suggesting a configuration or installation…)
CONT’D:
The work…
…can be intermixed, and so also explore the idea that everything is interconnected…
…thematically explore opposing but complimentary ideas… (see below)
..Is always unfinished, as is each individual work
…works the grid, twerks the grid.