art installation by Radu Comşa
17 Cct – 15 Nov 2008, Museum of Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
The Hyperlocked installation was designed to function as a support to introduce the Hiperbolism in circulation, which could define an architectural trend at the end of the 20th century and featuring an exhaustive use of succession of spherical and hyperbolical surfaces.
Following a prolonged modernism and decorative and historicist post-modern exaggerations, the purely geometrical, Neo-Euclidian, reaction, seems to have smoothened its path for success with the audience and the critics, though the stakes are only visual, with no inherent functionality. The succession of spherical and hyperbolical surfaces on an architectural volume is exclusively the result of digital modelling, such designs have no organic connotation, de names of “biomorphism” or “new organic trend” being, therefore, inappropriate. The installation presented as a first premiere the material prototype of interwoven hyperbolic fabrics, in which the asymptotic lines of the inner fabric are determined by the positioning in the discreet network of the exterior one. Such an image has not been created, as a three-dimension, before, being possible only virtually, on the screen of a monitor.
Organizers: echipa Zeppelin. Supported by: Museum of Romanian Peasant, Administration of National Cultural Heritage. Partner: Cembrit. Main sponsors: Final Distribution, Velux, National Investments Commission. Sponsors: Rheinzink, Apla, Alukonigstahl, Kludi, Steelcase, Energobit, Bramac, Rigips, Bicau, Romstal, Cărtureşti.
