The Bird from Paradise 木制雕塑 by Mohamadali Vadood

The Bird from Paradise 木制雕塑 by Mohamadali Vadood is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 文化遗产与文化产业设计 Competition Category.

铜文化遗产· 2019

The Bird from Paradise 木制雕塑

by Mohamadali Vadood

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 文化遗产 Category

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The Design

About The Bird from Paradise 木制雕塑

来自天堂的那只鸟是孔雀的象征性设计，并试图保持其形状，这与共同练习不同类型艺术品的几何限制不同。为了实现这一目标，我将穆卡纳斯（Muqarnas），马奎特里（Moaraq），穆纳巴特（Munabat）等7种伊朗传统艺术集中在一起，其中特别关注了穆卡纳斯，他们发明了一种称为“拉平穆卡纳斯（Leveled Muqarnas）”的新方法。 Muqarnas因其在宗教建筑设计中的特殊用途而濒临灭绝，我希望这种方法有助于它的复兴。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

The Bird from Paradise 木制雕塑是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计The Bird from Paradise 木制雕塑将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。The Bird from Paradise 木制雕塑出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Among the all the arts, a specific attention is paid to Muqarnas. This amazingly beautiful art was mostly used for the architectural designs and is being created by putting together repetitive and arranged pieces to create geometric designs. Due to difficulty in application and limitation in design, which caused repetitive forms, Muqarnas is being extinct.
To create a new application for Muqarnas, an innovative method was required to exploit Muqarnas out of the symmetry and repetition of geometric limitation. For this purpose I invented a innovative method that I call “Leveling Muqarnas”. Unlike the traditional method, which was creating a Muqarnas by putting small pieces side by side or just as a one big piece, I put them in different layer and based on the form and design divide them into thick or thin layers and then carved the Muqarnas designs into them.
The lower body of “The Bird from Heaven” is made by the leveling Muqarnas and the crown is designed by the traditional method, to make the comparison simpler and show the capabilities of this beautiful art.
During the work, tried to ensure real colors of woods are being used instead of coloring them. For example the light and darker color of the neck is for one piece of Jujube wood and all the colors on the heard are the real colors of the woods.
The eyes are the shell from the Persian Gulf and they have been cut in a way that pupils are actually the sediments inside the shell and its only one piece.
Dimensions & Packaging: 90*40*40
30*30*120
Tags: Art,Traditional art,sculpture,design, Artistic woodwn work,wooden art,woodwn work,Muqarnas,Wood craving,
Production Technology: Muqarnas, wood carving, traditional Iranian wood carving-grating, Iranian marquetry, wood turning, sculpting, and Iranian marquetry-carving are the arts which came together for performing this work so that the basic idea could be better visualised as a design.
Materials: Various woods, including Jujube, Millettia laurentii, Buxus, Rosewood, Haloxylon and Robinia plus the natural seashells from Persian Gulf.
Research: All the steps have been taken with the benefit of the members' artistic knowledge and experience.
Inspiration: God resurrected 3 chopped and mixed birds, which were located on the summit of 3 different mountains, so Abraham can witness the resurrection.
The story of Abraham inspired me to believe, art as a divine phenomenon can recreate by putting together pieces of dead wood via different arts.
To make this happen, I put together 7 different arts like sculpturing, Muqarnas, Marquetry (Moaraq), Munabat, etc. along with wood from Jujube, Haloxylon, boxwood, Robinia, rosewood, etc.
Project Duration: The project started
Operation Flow: This design is basically a still sculpture and can not be transformed into anything else.
First, the idea for designing this piece is based on the best bird figure that can face the constraints of performing while doing all muqarnas, sculptures, decorations and other works on it. So, this work is more or less based on the capabilities of the fields of art which were used to perform it and could all together come next to each other. In order to separate different fields in the performance, the components are carrying various natural colours of different woods as if they reflect a rainbow of colours which have been assembled as the parts of the bird's body.
Team Members: Mr Mohamadali Vadood
Ms Shadi Habib