‘Vespers’ is the latest addition to Stratasys’
‘The New Ancient’ collection and will be unveiled at the ‘Fear and
Love’ exhibition at London’s Design Museum (24 November 2016 – 23
April 2017)
Stratasys (Nasdaq:SSYS), the 3D printing and additive
manufacturing solutions company, today announces the official
launch of ‘The New Ancient’ 3D printed art and design collection.
The collection includes ‘Vespers’, a series of exploratory 3D
printed death masks, designed by Neri Oxman and her team, which
will be unveiled to the public at the grand reopening of London’s
Design Museum next week. Oxman combines design and computation to
produce the masks which, in a landmark breakthrough, emulate the
resolution and complexity that is usually only found in nature.
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VESPERS, Mask 1, Series 1, 2016. Designed
by Neri Oxman and her team as part of "The New Ancient" Collection
by STRATASYS and 3D Printed on a Stratasys J750 Full Color
Multi-material 3D Printer. Photo credit: Danielle van Zadelhoff
Naomi Kaempfer, Creative Director of Art Fashion Design at
Stratasys, explains: “The New Ancient collection marries ancient
crafts and designs of past civilizations with advanced technologies
to reimagine design in and of the modern world. Oxman, along with
her team, is amongst a number of leading designers who have
contributed to the creation of the collection, including Zaha
Hadid, Nick Ervinck and Daniel Widrig. Oxman’s Vespers epitomize
this theme, traversing between modern, cutting-edge technologies
and historical crafts and artefacts.”
Oxman, along with her team members – Christoph Bader, Dominik
Kolb, Rachel Smith, and Sunanda Sharma of the Mediated Matter Group
– led the creation of Vespers. Comprising 15 masks in three
sub-series, Vespers portrays the past, present and future, and
explores the themes of past worlds and future technologies. “Made
of a single material, such as wax or plaster, the death mask has
historically originated as a means of capturing a person’s visage,
keeping the deceased ‘alive’ through memory,” explains Oxman.
“Vespers’ death masks, however, are designed to reveal cultural
heritage and speculate about the perpetuation of life, both
cultural and biological.”
“Vespers’ designs are entirely data driven, digitally generated,
3D printed, and – at times – biologically augmented,” Oxman
continues. “By pushing the boundaries of cusp technologies – such
as high-resolution material modelling, full color multi-material 3D
printing, and synthetic biology – they express the death mask’s
deeper meanings and possible future use, thus bringing it back to
life.”
Sub-series one of the Vespers collection, entitled
‘Past’, looks at historic origins, exploring life through
the lens of death. Inspired by ancient masks, this sub-series
utilizes five material combinations to emulate colors commonly
found in cultural artefacts across regions and eras, with
impressive accuracy. With the implementation of Stratasys’ unique
full-color and transparency multi-material 3D printing technology,
Oxman’s team has created 3D printed objects that, for the first
time in history, match the variety and nuance of ancient
crafts.
The second sub-series, ‘Present’, explores the transition
between life and death, reflecting the progression of the death
mask from a symbolic cultural relic in the first sub-series to a
functional biological interface in the third. Visually, the surface
colorations and geometries seen in the first sub-series are
transformed into volumetric material distributions housed within
transparent, smoothly curved dome-like structures in the
second.
Rebirth is embodied in the third sub-series of masks, called
‘Future’. Perhaps the most ground-breaking of the trilogy,
the final sub-series engages with synthetic biology to explore
whether the death mask can drive the formation of new life,
repositioning the objects as habitats capable of interfacing with
living microorganisms. Devoid of cultural expressions and nearly
colorless, the final five masks ‘re-engineer’ life by guiding
living microorganisms through minute spatial features of the
artefacts.
“The Vespers masks were photographed by Belgian photographer,
Danielle van Zadelhoff, whose particular photography style
characteristic of Chiaroscuro is reminiscent of Caravaggio and
Rembrandt – resonating with the theme of timelessness as portrayed
throughout the series,” explains Kaempfer.
For more than 25 years, Stratasys Ltd.
(NASDAQ:SSYS) has been a defining force and dominant player in
3D printing and additive manufacturing – shaping the way things are
made. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel,
the company empowers customers across a broad range of vertical
markets by enabling new paradigms for design and manufacturing. The
company’s solutions provide customers with unmatched design freedom
and manufacturing flexibility – reducing time-to-market and
lowering development costs, while improving designs and
communications. Stratasys subsidiaries include MakerBot and
Solidscape, and the Stratasys ecosystem includes 3D printers for
prototyping and production; a wide range of 3D printing materials;
parts on-demand via Stratasys Direct Manufacturing; strategic
consulting and professional services; and the Thingiverse and
GrabCAD communities with over 2 million 3D printable files for free
designs. With more than 2,700 employees and 1,200 granted or
pending additive manufacturing patents, Stratasys has received more
than 30 technology and leadership awards. Visit us online at:
www.stratasys.com or http://blog.stratasys.com/, and follow us on
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