Curated by Ewan McEoin, the ‘NGV Triennial’
exhibition at The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne,
Australia is now open until 15 April 2018
Museum acquires Series 1 and 3 of Vespers,
while Series 2 also on display at exhibition
Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS), a global leader in applied additive
technology solutions, today announced that Vespers, a series of
breakthrough 3D printed death masks designed and 3D printed in
collaboration with Neri Oxman, has been acquired by the National
Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. The museum, which is
the oldest and most visited gallery in Australia, hosts the
inaugural ‘NGV Triennial 2017’ exhibition until 15 April 2018 –
where the death masks will premiere.
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Installation view of Neri Oxman Vespers,
Series 1 - 3, masks 1 - 5 2016 on display in NGV Triennial at NGV
International, 2017. Photo Credit: Tom Ross
The NGV Triennial is a celebration of contemporary art and
design practices, featuring the work of more than 100 artists and
designers from 32 countries, including works from Yayoi
Kusama, Xu Zhen, Guo Pei, Ron Mueck and Iris van Herpen,
to name a few. The artists and designers were selected for their
diversity and dynamism of practice, including those embracing
cutting-edge technologies, from 3D printing to robotics.
Highlighting some of the pressing issues being explored by artists
and designers today, visitors will have an opportunity to
contemplate the social, cultural, scientific and physiological
questions of our contemporary world.
“For a Triennial that sets out to explore the interface between
art, design, architecture, science, ecology and technology – Neri
Oxman’s work could not be more fitting,” comments Ewan McEoin,
Senior Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture at the
National Gallery of Victoria. “These 15 complex and intriguing
objects offer a compelling conversation about past, present and
future, delving into our psychological and cultural relationship to
death and adornment, while speculating on the capacity of additive
manufacturing to create, at a cellular level, new materials,
medicines, and technologies that draw from nature and in-depth
design research. Neri’s collaboration with Stratasys has enabled
objects of beauty and profound intelligence.”
Debuted at London’s Design Museum in November 2016 to great
acclaim, Vespers comprises 15 masks in three sub-series, portraying
the past, present and future. The collection explores the themes of
ancient traditions and future technologies and speculates about the
preservation of life, both cultural and biological. Oxman, along
with her team, led the creation of Vespers, which forms part of
Stratasys’ ‘The New Ancient’ 3D printed art and design
collection.
Oxman’s Vespers epitomize the theme of Stratasys’ The New
Ancient Collection, which unifies historical crafts and designs of
past civilizations with cutting edge technologies, to reimagine
design in the modern world. The collection balances the dichotomy
between the tribal crafted indigenous qualities with the bio
technological advancement.
One of the primary sub-series 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
J750 full-color and transparent multi-material 3D printing
technology, Oxman’s team has created 3D printed objects that, for
the first time in history, accurately reproduce the variety and
nuance of ancient crafts.
“Vespers’ designs are entirely data-driven, digitally-generated,
3D printed, and – at times – biologically augmented,” Oxman
explains. “By pushing the boundaries of cusp technologies – such as
high-resolution material modelling, Stratasys’ 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.”
The merging of molecular biology, ecological engineering, design
computation and 3D printing led to the blurring of boundaries –
between human and machine, between natural and designed
environments – to the point where such distinctions can no longer
be made. Oxman explains: “Vespers is the most sophisticated
expression of our design approach so far, demonstrating that we can
seamlessly vary the physical properties of materials in extremely
high resolution that matches, and ultimately transcends, the scales
of nature.”
Naomi Kaempfer, Creative Director of Art, Design and Fashion at
Stratasys concludes: “We don’t often get the opportunity to
contemplate the topic of life and death from within the discipline
and perspective of industrial design. The New Ancient collection
from Stratasys finds itself amid a technological era and
consumeristic society, emerging from the competitive trenches of
research and development moving towards the reigns of cutting-edge
innovation. A subtle poetic and sustainable hunger has risen
to slow us down for just a moment, to gaze deeply into the
particles that compose the antique wisdom and emotion of our human
heritage, enabling us to cherish and bridge this universal
truth.”
To see Vespers, visit the NGV Triennial exhibition in the NGV
International building at The National Gallery of Victoria in
Melbourne, Australia, running from 15 December 2017 to 15 April
2018.
About StratasysStratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) is a global
leader in applied additive technology solutions for industries
including Aerospace, Automotive, Healthcare, Consumer Products and
Education. For nearly 30 years, a deep and ongoing focus on
customers’ business requirements has fueled purposeful
innovations—1,200 granted and pending additive technology patents
to date—that create new value across product lifecycle processes,
from design prototypes to manufacturing tools and final production
parts. The Stratasys 3D printing ecosystem of solutions and
expertise—advanced materials; software with voxel level control;
precise, repeatable and reliable FDM and PolyJet 3D printers;
application-based expert services; on-demand parts and
industry-defining partnerships—works to ensure seamless integration
into each customer’s evolving workflow. Fulfilling the
real-world potential of additive, Stratasys delivers breakthrough
industry-specific applications that accelerate business processes,
optimize value chains and drive business performance improvements
for thousands of future-ready leaders around the world.
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