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Making of Microstructures

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Video, Makerchair Bits & Parts: Downloadable for all

Video, Makerchair Bits & Parts: Downloadable for all
video.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.12a

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A digital print greyscale drawing consisting of an amorophous shape which has the appearance of the back of a wicker chair, with a rounded rectangular head piece, sloping back, short curved arms and a squat, oval-shaped seat. The shape is made up of repeating grey tubes of varying thickness which criss-cross over one another. The headpiece appears to be formed from a widely spaced grid, while the sloping back follows the same grid but with much thinner tubes that are layered on top of one another to form a thick mesh. The seat returns to a wider spaced grid, but the tubes interweave and criss-cross in such a way as to be much less uniform than the headpiece. The tubes of the curved arms and the seat are much darker grey than the tubes of the headpiece and back.

Drawing, Microstructures 4, 2013
digital print.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.9

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A digital print greyscale drawing consisting of an amorophous shape which has the appearance of a long-backed chair with a low rectangular front. The shape is made up of repeating swooping curved lines which give it a sense of dynamism and a mesh-like appearance. The rectangular front piece is long and almost black at the front with many lines, the back of the chair-like shape appears to be made of grids of lines.

Drawing, Microstructures 2, 2013
digital print.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.7

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Drawing, Microstructures 1, 2013
digital print.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.6

There are 2 images and 1 video of this object.

This digital print shows a computer rendering of a complex form. Shaded silver-grey ribbon- or wire-like lines reach up vertically from the bottom of the image, then snarl and widen into two flared tiers. This tangle of wires resolves into a tightly-woven, slightly tapered cylinder-like form, with a chain mail-like texture. The wires are strongly shaded, creating the illusion of depth.

Drawing, Microstructures 5
digital print.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.10

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This print presents a grey mesh chair seen from below. The front of the seat faces up, the back faces down. The seat tapers from a wide, gently curved front edge to a narrower, rounded back. The four narrow legs share a base, splitting and curving smoothly into a pinched-in rectangular form affixed to the underside of the seat. The texture of the seat is a small-scale, diagonal grid pattern. The rendering dissolves the solid form of the legs into the open gridded pattern.

Drawing, Microstructures 6
digital print.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.11

There are 3 images and 1 video of this object.

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Joris Laarman Lab
Amsterdam, Netherlands.

This person is involved with 49 objects in our collection.