sculpture on fire

sculpture on fire

"Belgian Waffle"

Belgian Waffle Ground Plan.  Built from this simple ground plan, the Belgian waffle contained 200 cubic meters of wood and 1,000,000 nails!  At the end of Burning Man 2006, the Belgian waffle was burned.  (Spectacular photographs of the burning of the Belgian waffle can be found on the Burning Man website.)  The unused wood from the Belgian waffle installation was donated to the Katrina Project.

Jimmy Budenars

Belgian Waffle 1 & 2.  The official name of this art installation was Message from the Future – Uchronia.  Designed and built by Belgian artist Jimmy Budenars and a large crew of volunteers, also from Belgium, the installation acquired the nickname "the Belgian waffle."  At night, the Belgian waffle filled with disco music and dancers.

Kimsooja

                                   Planted Names,2002

Four unique carpets at drayton hall bearing the names of enslaved africans and african americans who built this 1742 palladian house and cultivated this plantation.

"carpets are not about the beauty of an artist's desing, but about the labor of the carpet maker. So I chose carpets as the form to celebrate their labor and time."

Kimsooja

Yves Klein

In the spring of 1961, Klein was able to gain access to one of France's major destructive testing laboratories (much like NIST here in the USA), whose gas powered flame propagation equipment Klein made terrific use of. The 'Fire Paintings' today remain along wth the IKB Monochrome paintings and the frighteningly existential 'Leap into the Void' some the most elemental and spiritual of his works, counterpointing the overwhelming and fiercely intellectual power of his work.


Using the bodies of young women as a mask (he had them covered in flame retardant and transfer their nubile forms onto the receiving paper - such that the impressions their corpulence left on the paper would serve to hinder the action of the flames - leaving a negative impression against the figure of the flame's action.

Fascinatingly, the action of 'burning' a figure onto the paper receiver is innately photographic - not only is there strong similarities in the sense that an energy(light in the case of photography) used to darken or create a figure in the substrate - but the masking technique (like 'dodging' in the darkroom) functions in an identical fashion. The net result isn't at all unlike a 'heliograph', or 'light painting'.

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Yves Klein