Interference Sculpture Art by Lai Jiebin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.
SilverFine Art· 2023
Interference Sculpture Art
by Lai Jiebin
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category
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About Interference Sculpture Art
The shape of trees symbolizes nature, and the cloth symbolizes human intervention in nature. The work collides the primitive nature of nature with the possibility of human interference, creates a scene space with the theme of ecology, and applies the tree modeling elements in the literati paintings of the Song Dynasty to sculpture. When people stare at these works, they will think about where human beings have gone and the relationship between nature and human beings.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Interference Sculpture Art is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Interference Sculpture Art is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Interference Sculpture Art is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Public Art and Sculpture Commissions
We create transformative public art installations that revitalize urban spaces and inspire communities. Our internationally recognized sculptures blend ecological themes with classical Chinese aesthetics, crafting thought-provoking works that explore humanity's relationship with nature and urban culture.
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Grand Interview
Your innovative use of transparent resin in Interference Sculpture Art creates a powerful dialogue between nature and human intervention - could you elaborate on how this material choice enhances your ecological message?
Firstly, the characteristics of transparent resin endow sculpture with a unique visual effect. Its transparency allows the structure and form inside the sculpture to be vaguely revealed, as if the forces of nature and human intervention are intertwined and colliding inside the sculpture. This visual effect not only enhances the three-dimensional sense of the sculpture, but also allows the audience to feel an inner tension while watching, as if they can glimpse the complexity behind the relationship between nature and humanity.Secondly, the material of transparent resin makes this interference more intuitive and noticeable. It shows people that human intervention is like transparent blankets, although seemingly light and harmless, it actually brings enormous pressure and burden to nature. This symbolic expression enables sculpture to more profoundly reveal the contradictory relationship between humans and nature, and provoke reflection from the audience.
The tree motifs in Interference Sculpture Art draw inspiration from Song Dynasty literati paintings - how did you translate these classical aesthetic elements into contemporary sculptural form while maintaining their cultural significance?
Firstly, I conducted in-depth research and analysis on the tree shapes in literati paintings of the Song Dynasty. The literati paintings of the Song Dynasty are known for their simplicity and elegance, with trees often outlined in lines, naturally shaped, and full of vitality. I particularly noticed the branches, leaves, and overall posture of the trees in these paintings, which often depict the rhythm and tempo of nature with minimalist brushstrokes.I faced a significant challenge in transforming these classical aesthetic elements into sculptural forms. Sculpture and painting are two different forms of art, with painting emphasizing composition and color application on a flat surface, while sculpture requires shaping forms in three-dimensional space. Therefore, I need to carry out three-dimensional transformation and innovation while maintaining the essence of tree shapes in Song Dynasty literati paintings.In the creative process, I pay special attention to maintaining the cultural significance of tree shapes in Song Dynasty literati paintings. These trees are not only symbols of nature, but also carriers for literati to express emotions and artistic conception. Therefore, in sculpture, I convey profound themes such as the relationship between humans and nature and human interference in nature through the form, posture, and combination with other elements of trees. These themes not only echo the artistic conception of Song Dynasty literati paintings, but also conform to contemporary society's concern for environmental protection and ecological balance.
Your childhood experiences with trees serving human needs deeply influenced Interference Sculpture Art - could you share how these early observations shaped your artistic vision and choice of symbolism?
In the rural environment where I grew up, trees were not only symbols of nature, but also carried various human needs. I remember that villagers would cool off and chat under the trees, children would play under the shade of trees, and the trees themselves silently provided fruits, wood, and even became tools for drying clothes and blankets. Although these scenes may seem ordinary, they planted the seeds of contemplation on the relationship between nature and humanity in my young mind.I have always felt a sense of pity and sadness towards trees since I was young. As a part of nature, trees should grow and flourish freely, but they have to bear various human needs and pressures. This feeling became even more profound as I grew up, and I began to realize that human intervention in nature is not just about the use of trees, but also a destruction of the entire ecosystem.These early observations shaped my unique perspective on art. I believe that art is not only a pursuit of beauty, but also a profound reflection and criticism of the real world. When creating 'Intervention', I chose trees and cloth as symbolic elements. Trees symbolize nature, while cloth symbolizes human intervention in nature. Through the form of sculpture, I present this relationship in an intuitive and vivid way, allowing the audience to feel the sadness and helplessness of nature in silent endurance.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The tree shape symbolizes nature, and the cloth on it symbolizes the interference of human forces in nature. It collides the primitive nature of nature with the possibility of human interference, suggesting that although the environmental situation of today's highly developed earth looks very beautiful, it has major hidden dangers. When people stare at the works, they think about the future of mankind and the relationship between nature and mankind.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Each monomer is about 4.8m long, 1.5m wide and 2.5m high
- Tags
- Sculpture, public art, contemporary art, ecological art
- Production Technology
- Transparent resin is selected for material creation through 3D printing technology to explore the performance of 3D printing technology in the context of contemporary art, create a tragic scene space with the theme of ecology, reflect the natural attribute, spatial expression and artistic conception transmission of transparent resin, apply the modeling elements of trees in Chinese traditional literati paintings of Song Dynasty to sculpture, and retain Chinese classical aesthetics, Make the whole work present an elegant state.
- Design Challenge
- Create a visual and touchable artistic image with a certain space, so as to reflect social life and express aesthetic feeling, aesthetic emotion and aesthetic ideal
- Research
- The emergence of ecological art reflects people's reflection and Reflection on the consciousness of environmental damage, and is the expression of the progress of the times. As a work of public art, with the eyes of criticism and reflection, it has more profound value and contribution to the disclosure of the contradiction between man and nature, and can also reflect the level of civilization.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration comes from the author's childhood rural life. In the process of perceiving the "tree" since childhood, what lingers is that the "tree" is used in the form of tools to provide daily necessities and "service" for drying quilt covers for people living nearby. The author felt sad about the "pressure" of trees since childhood. Why should a tree bear so much weight for mankind. Nowadays, people's interference with nature is more like one quilt after another
- Project Duration
- The project was completed in April 2022, and was exhibited in Shandong Art Museum in May 2022, 798 Art District in Beijing in June 2022, and the Himalayan Art Museum in Shanghai in December 2022. It is now collected by Zhuhai Huanyu City
- Operation Flow
- Compared with literati paintings in other times, Chinese literati paintings in Song Dynasty have more obvious characteristics, rich ideas and simple painting style, which has great reference value for the current painting art. The shape of the tree in the works is inspired by the literati painting of the Song Dynasty. Through repeated deliberation on the tree language in the literati painting of the Song Dynasty, it is finally presented in its own works.
- Image Credits
- Image # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4, # 5 artist Lai jiebin
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