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Rogan BrownMandala Variation I - contemporary modern abstract organic wall sculpture relief2024
2024
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Mandala Variation I is a unique contemporary modern sculpture paper relief by UK artist Rogan Brown. The relief is composed of a dozen layers of laser and handcut paper elements, which are stacked using foam board spacers. This floating effect allows the artist to build a complex structure of shapes and forms that appear to grow beyond the confines of their housing. It is a typical work of his now globally acclaimed style and technique, a true collectors item.
The art work is mounted inside a bespoke shadow box with a neutral white passe-partout and protected by high rade museum glass. The shadow box allows this unique three-dimensional work to be seen from all angles, at the same protecting it.
Rogan Brown (1966, UK) graduated with a BA and MA in literature and literary and cultural theory from London University before pursuing at a later age a full time career as a visual artist. Today he works from his studio near London in the UK.
His work is inspired by the tradition of scientific illustration and model making; detailed observational drawings based on patterns and motifs found in nature are transformed into incredibly detailed, delicate relief sculptures made from layer upon layer of either hand or laser cut paper. Paper is his medium of choice because it captures perfectly that mixture of delicacy and durability that characterizes the natural world. Despite the origin of his inspiration nothing he makes comes directly from nature. Everything is transformed through the imagination and therefore bears the imprint of the artist’s subjectivity.
Some of Rogan’s work is sliced meticulously by hand using a scalpel. Others are also cut using a laser. The end result is a fragile paper sculpture that borrows from what we can see as well as the artistic imagination. Making multiple visual references – vegetal forms, cells, microbes, fossils, insects, cloud formations, the organs and orifices of the human body – his work seeks to transform the real into the surreal creating sculptures of strange unreal beauty.
Winner of Best Installation award in 2013’s and Emerging Artist of the Year award in 2014’s UK National Open Art competition and in awarded first place in the Sculpture- Installation category of the Florence-Shanghai Prize in 2014, Rogan Brown has exhibited internationally in Europe, China and most recently the USA. In 2014 he was furthermore published in “Postdigital Artisans” a book that brings together a group of international artists, designers and architects who are returning to simple materials in order to create a “physically immersive experience”. More recently he participated in a number of high end exhibitions including Eco-couture fashion designer Iris van Herpen anniversary exhibition.
- Creator:Rogan Brown (French)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 25.6 in (65 cm)Width: 25.6 in (65 cm)Depth: 4.34 in (11 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Doetinchem, NL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1115216308212
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ARTIST STATEMENT To see a world in a grain of sand… “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity...and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of a man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself." -- William Blake My work plays with the architecture of nature and organic growth. By identifying patterns and motifs that occur in the natural world in different contexts and at different scales, both macroscopic and microscopic, I have developed a formal, aesthetic vocabulary that I use to construct hybrid sculptural forms, both real and surreal. Familiar and other at one and the same time the sculptures make multiple visual references: cell structures, microbes, pathogens, vegetal forms, coral, fossils, insects, shells, the body’s organs and orifices, geological structures, topographical maps, cloud formations, cut away models, petri dishes etc…By mixing science and art, observation and imagination, I hope to find a bridge between the two, mimicking the breathtaking detail and complexity that exists at every level of scale in nature and filtering it through the eccentricity of the individual imagination. A recurrent theme in my work is the limitations of science when confronted by the vast scale and complexity of nature, science's goal of containing and defining nature is constantly subverted and fractured by the sheer volume and variety of data that needs to be observed, analysed and classified. This is reflected in the excessive detail that characterizes my work which overwhelms the eye by its sheer scale and volume. Process and material are crucial; the large hand cut pieces are dissected from sheet after sheet of paper in careful scientific fashion with a scalpel knife, sometimes taking months to complete, the slow act of cutting repeating the long time-based processes that dominate nature: growth, decay and re-growth. Paper, my chosen material, embodies the paradoxical qualities that we see in nature: its fragility and durability, its strength and delicacy; there is a pleasing poetic symmetry in taking this material that was cut from the forest and by cutting and transforming it once again returning it to its origins.
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