Ikarus Primary Function: Toi Whakaahua by Florian W. Mueller

Ikarus Primary Function: Toi Whakaahua by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Hiriwa in Hoahoa Whakaahua me te Whakarereke Whakaahua Competition Category.

HiriwaWhakaahua· 2022

Ikarus Primary Function: Toi Whakaahua

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

A' Design Award Hiriwa Winner in Whakaahua Category

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The Design

About Ikarus Primary Function: Toi Whakaahua

He raupapa whakaahua a Ikarus e whakaatu ana i ngā tauira manu kua tiakina mai i ngā momo kua ngaro, kua tino noho mōrearea rānei. Ka whakaahuatia ia manu i te āhua o tētahi peita a Rembrandt, ā, ko te papamuri o ia whakaahua he whakaahua matawhāiti o ngā huruhuru o taua manu. I whakaahuatia ngā tauira i te kohinga tikanga manu o te Senckenberg Institute i Dresden, Tiamana. Ko te taitara e pā ana ki te pūrākau o Icarus, nāna i rere teitei rawa, ka taka ki te moana. Ko Ikarus te wāhanga tuatoru o tētahi kohinga raupapa e kīia ana ko Neglect. Ka whakaputaina ngā mahi ki runga i te rauemi ChromaLuxe i roto i ngā putanga iti.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hiriwa

Ko Ikarus Primary Function: Toi Whakaahua te toa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa taumata teitei rawa, ātaahua me te whakamīharo. Ko ngā toa Hiriwa he mahi tino kanapa, tino auaha e whakaatu ana i te mātanga, te pūmanawa me te mōhio hōhonu o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Ikarus Primary Function: Toi Whakaahua he mahi whakamīharo, he tauira, he tino ngaio, he auaha hōhonu. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Hiriwa he hanganga rongonui, whakamīharotia e whai wāhi ana ki te whakawhānui i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ko Ikarus Primary Function: Toi Whakaahua he mahi e hae ana te tini, e whakaara ana i ngā hiahia, e kawe mai ana i ngā kare-ā-roto pai, ā, e whakaoho ana i te mīharo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Here are photographed specimens of animals, most of whose species are extinct. For this series Dr. Martin Päckert, the head of the ornithology section of the Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, he supported me very dedicated in my work.
In painting, the foolish or overconfident person is often depicted as Icarus.
Dimensions & Packaging: Produced artworks are in the size 120 x 90cm, 80 x 60cm available. All strictly limited to 5/10 pieces.
Tags: animals, photography, endangered, extinct, birds, environment, portrait, Rembrandt
Production Technology: Digital Photography, produced on ChromaLuxe material.
Design Challenge: The challenge was to set the prepared birds in scene like in a Rembrandt painting. The background of the portraits is a macro-photography of the feathers of each bird.
Research: I found that in the collection of the Senckenberg Institute in Dresden the most rare examples of extinct bird species are collected.
From a project before I had the contacts to the institute and they immediately said yes, when I asked to photograph the examples for my project. Then Dr. Martin Päckert helped me a lot with the taxonomy and the names and the origin of the birds and the preparations.
Inspiration: We know the legend of Icarus, whose father Daedalus built wings of feathers and wax for himself and his son to escape from the captivity of Minos on Crete. The son Icarus became overconfident, the wax melted, he fell into the sea. Despite his father’s warnings.
Despite warnings and admonitions, we spiral into ever higher and warmer and warmer climes, and the crash is not far away. Okay, maybe that’s a bit drastic and striking. But all photographed birds are either extinct or highly endangered.
Project Duration: It took nearly a year of research and preparation, two days of shooting and around 2 weeks of post-production.
Operation Flow: This is the third series of my collection of series, called NEGLECT. All endangered or extinct species.
I had the wonderful chance to photograph in the ornithology institue of the Senckenberg Institutes in Dresden, Germany.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Florian W. Mueller, 2022.
Image Credits: Credits:
Leica Camera Germany
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden
ChromaLuxe
Photography Zingst