Omer Arbel | 113

Omer Arbel | 113

比雷埃夫斯,波利德夫科斯街 39 號,雅典 CARWAN 畫廊 | 2020年9月4日 - 11月7日

跨領域藝術家兼設計師 Omer Arbel 將於雅典的 Carwan Gallery 展出一系列全新的雕塑作品。展覽「113」將於 2020 年 9 月 3 日至 11 月 7 日舉行,展示一系列銅製雕塑;這些作品源自 Arbel 對玻璃與銅之間相互關係的持續研究,並呈現了他在該領域的一系列新發現。

在「113」的創作過程中,玻璃先以傳統方式吹製成形,隨後注入以銅為主的液態合金。玻璃與合金的化學成分經過精密校準,藉由兩者在溫度變化下膨脹與收縮速率的刻意差異,使玻璃在冷卻過程中碎裂剝落,僅留下金屬鑄造的形體。當金屬處於高溫狀態時,其與玻璃接觸的一面因隔絕氧氣而呈現出彩虹般的光澤,與暴露於空氣中、呈現粗糙氧化質感的內表面形成鮮明對比。

The exhibition consists of 70 unique pieces which have been created by hand in Vancouver, Canada. They will be shown as a fixed constellation positioned on a display table along the central axis of the new Carwan Gallery space in Athens. The gallery promotes and produces collectible design, developing exceptional cross-cultural collaborations that call to attention a specific market – the Near East. For those unable to visit the gallery, an innovative VR experience and guided journey has been created for the exhibition.

These works demonstrate Arbel’s decade old signature process, which is to let the intrinsic properties of a given material suggest its form, rather than impose an external idea of form upon the material.

“For some years I have been interested in matching the coefficients of expansion of glass and copper, so that the two could be fused on a molecular level and manipulated. I’ve wanted to explore formal languages that might emerge when two materials, so different from each other, marry. Over time, I’ve realized that a good idea eventually leads to its opposite. Here, for 113, the coefficients of expansion are deliberately divergent. When hot, the glass and copper interact to make a form that neither would be capable of on its own, in a kind of performance staged by the glass blowers, with great skill, in a short amount of time. The object immediately begins to cool, and the two materials, because of their intrinsic nature, are completed to reject each other, break off and separate. I am interested in the form that remains, an artifact resulting from (or documenting) a performative act of unpredictable contingencies and circumstances.”