FORMS IN NATURE HildenDiaz
Forms in Nature by HildenDiaz THE LIGHT SCULPTURE FORMS IN NATURE resembles Darwinist Ernst Haeckel’s drawings. Using a simple action, such as intensifying the brightness at the center of the artwork, the light transforms the space and adds character, as the work throws oversized shadows onto walls and ceilings in the space in which it hangs.
THE LIGHT SCULPTURE FORMS IN NATURE is partly inspired by Ernst Haeckel’s (1834- 1919) detailed plots from nature and is a further development of Hilden & Diaz’ fascination with mirrorings, as they have previously applied in other artworks.
most visible. Thereby the sculpture is not only mirrored, but also turned upside down in Hilden & Diaz’ artwork. As the intensity of the light source increases, the room changes and the space slowly becomes more and more fascinating and unheimlich.
FORMS IN NATURE is a artwork with a light source surrounded by a dense and unruly tree and root system created in minature sculpture. The forest is mirrored around it’s horizontal central axis and forms a circle 360 degrees around the light source and thereby leads one onto the notion of a real world versus an underworld.
The shadows engulfs the room and transforms the walls into unruly shadows of branches, bushes and gnarled trees. Mirrorings are thrown out upon the walls and ceilings and provide weak Rorschach-like hints of faces, life and flow of consciousness. Diming the lights transforms the installation and one senses a weak fire burning deep in the center of the forest.
Interestingly, the roots are those elements of the forest that are the
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FORMS IN NATURE LIGHT SCULPTURE is designed, produced and assembled in Copenhagen by the artist studio Hilden Diaz. It is 3D printed in a special PVO powder that resists high temperatures. The over 400 different branches are delicately hand assembled in symmetric and mirrored angles. The whole process of construction of each lamp lasts three days. The sculpture works by throwing huge twisted shadows onto walls. Each chandelier is carefully hand assembled in an 8-hour process and it is shipped in a sophisticated wooden box.
“We wanted to create the same feeling one might have when standing in a magnificent forest surrounded by nature, to feel what it was like to be artists or scientists overwhelmed by this incredible big world of millions of living creatures” – Hilden & Diaz.
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Technical information Dimensions: Material: Light Source:
60 x 55 x 49 cm / 23 x 55 x 49 in PVO composite, 3D-printed 60 W dimmable Halogen bulb, 1650 lm, 3000 K, 4000 h = 4 years, 12 V
Light source, bulb, cable and rosetta are included and shipped together with the Light Sculpture. FORMS IN NATURE is shipped all around the world in sophisticated strong wooden boxes that protects the chandelier from any damage. Every chandelier is produced together with a certificate of authenticity specifying the series number.
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HildenDiaz Hilden & Diaz is collaboration between the artists Thyra Hilden (1972, DK) and Pio Diaz, (1973, AR). In 2005, the two artists founded the partnership Hilden & Diaz and gathered their artistic interests. Thyra Hilden came from exploring existential ambiguity in her photographs and video installations and Pio Diaz worked with political and social critique through interventions in public space. The strength and dynamic of Hilden & Diaz as collaborating artists is due to their cultural and artistic differences. The artistic synergy of Hilden & Diaz works primarily with a focus on transformation and paradoxes. Their starting point is existing cultural icons and basic elements, which they transform and modify to tamper with the common perception.
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Hilden & Diaz’ artworks have several overlapping branches: technology, cognition, psychology, history and most central nature. This palette of subjects, seem always to interlink through the core of their artworks. Their main project together is City on Fire (2005 – 2010), a large-scale video installation setting buildings and monuments on virtual fire in order to reveal the fragile and transitory nature of man-made constructions. This project culminated with the installation in Rome ”Coliseum on Fire” in 2010. ”For many years it has been of our interest to question the cultural structures through destructive forces such as fire. Lately, our interest has shifted to its radical pole, that is, how to preserve the most fragile things existing despite all odds. This aim is obvious in our new art project named Bubble: making a soap bubble last forever.
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The inspiration for the artworks, appear to us as blur visions that will not vanish. We are two artists but our minds work as one. We dive into a sea of cohesion, creating some sort of wormholes to a common consciousness. It’s like some mysteries that co-habit with us in form of forgotten memory, are right there waiting to be revealed and dug out of the archives of Mother Nature” Hilden Diaz discover mysteries, reveal and share them with us. They steal their force, like they did with the fire in City on Fire. Hilden & Diaz use these mysteries as the onset for an artwork similar to the way a painter uses an empty canvas and buckets of paint, by juxtaposing existing elements to form their artworks. Along with the large scaled projects Hilden & Diaz create several smaller artworks, drafts and projects: Ash pictures, alchemistic Rorschach paintings, mirror-objects, light installations or any given form posing paradox questions to our self-understanding.
Contact information Hilden Diaz KompagnistrÌde 25, 3 1208 København K Denmark +45 50205080 m@hildendiaz.dk Website: www.hildendiaz.dk Facebook: www.facebook.com/FormsInNature Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/hildendiaz