Henrique Oliveira

 

 

 

Henrique Oliveira is an Artist I used as part of my C&C. What interested me in Henriques work was the fact he uses recycled plywood from construction sites. Henrique takes the weathered plywood and stripes them down separating the layers where he can. This technique enables him to stretch, bend and flex each strip to form these weird root like forms in his installations. Like me, Henrique is interested in the pre made patterns and shades he finds in the plywood. He uses these natural patterns to influence his next step and what form he should make.  

 

 

Giuseppe Penone

 

 

 

 

 

“My artwork shows, with the language of sculpture, the essence of matter and tries to reveal with the work, the hidden life within.” – Giuseppe Penone

 

What better way to appreciate nature and the wonders of life than with a simply amazing art sculpture like this? In The Hidden Life Within, Italian artist Guiseppe Penone carves out a young tree with an older tree to reveal its past, showing us what once grew inside so that it may now "live in the present." Inspired by the quiet slowness of growth in the natural world, the artist asks us to take a moment to stop and think about the concept of time and how there's a common vital force in all living things.

These are beautiful!

 

 

Designed by both Michael Thomas Host & Tanja Hinder for a company named 'Mth Woodworking, the designers start with sections of trees ranging from 60 to 600 years old, combining them with resin plates so as to keep the beautiful rings in wood and endow them with a stylish aesthetics as well.

 

I love it how they have captured the history and absolute beauty that is found inside these ageing trees. The pure white table top is a great way to eliminate all distractions from focusing on the life of the particular tree. The shapes and patterns have a repetitive rhythm which is hard to ignore and why should we? why cant beauty be natural and present in all things alive..

Exploded Views

Found this sculpture by artist Vincent Kohler which shows an exploded view of a large section of wood. It shows how wood would be milled in the old days to get as much as they could out of a single log. As you now this is very similar to my piece 'View'  created for C&C and portrays similar ideas and thoughts.