Artist- Jaume Plensa

Jaume Plensa

The Crown Fountain, 2004, glass& video, Millennium Park, Chicago

Spanish sculptor Plensa focuses on the human experience of standing in between. In this public art project, he works on an ancient symbol ‘fountain’ - a place where once people came to obtain water and to meet. Their images and ideas are reflected onto each other. A dialogue is created between the fountain and people, and among those people. This fountain consists of two 50-foot glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. Video images from a broad social spectrum of Chicago citizens are projected on LED screens on towers. Water flows out of the sculptured open mouth.

Jaume Plensa (b. 1955 in Barcelona) currently resides between Barcelona and Paris. He studied in the "Llotja" School and the Escola Superior de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Europe, the United States and Japan: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Spain); Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Halifax (United Kingdom); the Arts Club Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago (USA), etc. Plensa’s upcoming personal exhibitions will be at The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA in 2010 and Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoon Kaupunk, Finland in 2011.

Artist- Daniel Rozin

Daniel Rozin

Wooden Mirror, 1999, 830 wood pieces, motors, video camera, control electronics, custom software, microcontroller, 61 x 70 x 8" / 155 x 178 x 20 cm

Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer. The viewer becomes the contents of the piece and in others the viewer is invited to take an active role in the creation of the piece. In Wooden Mirror, he created an interactive sculpture where the wooden pixels reflect any object or person in front of it, moving fast enough to create live animation. The movements of wooden pixels produce a sound when something moves in front of the mirror. This provides a secondary feedback to the image.

Daniel Rozin(b. 1961) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at bitforms gallery, New York; Reflection, at the Exploratorium, San Francisco. Group exhibitions include Taiwan National Museum of Fine Art; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spain; Ars Electronica; Jamaica Center for the Arts in New York; Art Interactive in Cambridge; Lincoln Center; InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, etc. His new mirror sculptures were also shown at Reina Sofía, Madrid; V&A museum, London.

Artists- Bengt Sjölén and Adam Somlai-Fischer

Bengt Sjölén and Adam Somlai-Fischer






















Aleph reorganizing vision, 2007, outdoor installation

Aleph is an experimental public display. Adam and Bengt built a matrix of small mirrors, which can adjust their tilt according to the site they are facing. Thus, they created a display that uses the changing flux of the place to show images from certain points in space. A computer is using cameras to continuously analyze the surroundings, implement interaction and distribute targeting information to a network of microcontrollers positioning the mirrors.

Bengt( b.1972) is a self-educated software and hardware designer. He currently collaborates all over europe on projects merging media art, technology and architecture experimenting with social and physical spaces. His work has been exhibited at ISEA(San Jose, US, 2006 and Helsinki, Finland, 2004) and Ludwig Muzeum(Budapest, Hungary), etc.
Adam (b. 1976 Budapest) graduated from the Architecture + Urban Research Laboratory, Stockholm. His projects were shown at the Venice Biennale of Architecture2004, 2006, ISEA 2004 Helsinki and 2006 San Jose, Ars Electronica 2006, Kiasma Museum Helsinki, Ludwig Museum Budapest. Adam has been working as a guest researcher at the Smart Studio, Interactive Institute in Stockholm, the MOKK Media Research and is directing aether architecture, an office for mediated environments.

Artists- Banks Violette

Banks Violette

Mirror Wall, 2007, Steel frames, steel tracking, laminated mirror glass, steel rods, hydraulic and electrical components,250 x 960 x 300 cm

Violette refers to an over-identification with fiction, where fantasy and reality are blurred. Mirror Wall involves a process where 12 tons of pneumatic pressure is applied to steel frames holding 28 mirrors, resulting in plenty of shattered glass -- a frozen gesture of proven allegorical potency. It indexes an unrecognized iconographic phenomenon in contemporary art—reflected figures a pair of asymmetrical figures, usually two three-dimensional forms, that are mirror images of one another.

Banks Violette( b. 1973) graduated from Columbia University, New York in 2000 and School of the Visual Arts, New York, 1998. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Maureen Paley, London; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels ; Galerie Thaddaeu Ropac, Salzburg; Team Gallery, New York, NY. He has been selected for group exhibitions When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle; My Sweet Sixteen Party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels. His works were also shown at The Royal Academy, London and MOMA, New York. He has been awarded Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant 2000.