Research area and keywords of research:
Opportunities for Creating Illusion of Space in Sculpting
Name of the researcher(s) and research group:
- Tibor Zielinski DLA (Individual research)
Name of the Institute:
University of Nyíregyháza, Institute of Visual Culture
Research objectives:
Having examined spatial illusion-making, I arrived at presenting the most simple illusion-makings as well as artworks that evoke the illusion of the world beyond the third dimension, i.e., picture phenomena beyond the third dimension.
Description and results of research:
In the last semester of the three-year DLA programme, I was a student of the Accademia di belle Arti di Brera in Milan. My work entitled ”Gates” was made here. In the case of my work ”Gates”, one might think of chaos at first sight until the observer focuses on the gates. In any case, the entire composition depicts the easily visible system with the regularity of an octagonal ”crystal shape”. The outer scratched glass plates of the work have their continuation in mirror plates that are held by a low and matt black mounting. The matt black is the nothing, the ”medium” absorbing light, and the mirror reflects light and mirrors the observer looking at it. The glass means transparency on which the scratched line appears as a line drawn out of the exceptionally dispersing light. With these means, I strove to attain a ”non-material” effect, as far as possible. Once, strolling along on the main street of Milan, I looked through an open gate. Through the gate, on the other side of the richly decorated reception area of the building, I could see a courtyard, and across the courtyard another gate, through the gate another street and the gates on the other side of the street. This very moment incited in me a train of thought. It was not so much the wellwrought gates that fired my imagination but the entire system of connections, the way inner and 8 outer spaces alternate. The gates, besides being entrances and exits in a physical sense, often are boundaries or stations of momentous episodes of our fate. In a figurative sense, crossing the threshold frequently means more than simply going through an entrance or passage. In this life, here and now, you make a certain choice, you pick a certain gate, but at the same time in a parallel universe your parallel self chooses another gate — this can repeat endlessly. With the gates, I tried to show time itself and its structure or, at least, make them perceptible in some way. The individual gates as phases, moments, epochs are situated next to each other and are visible at the same time as well. However, we can try to focus on the glass plates separately. Certain time layers remain hidden from us, we cannot see both the plates opposite us and the ones perpendicular to them simultaneously, but if we circle round and have a look at the work from a view at 90 degrees to the previous one, we can see the very plates that were out of sight before, from the opposite side of the statue, we can see the very images in reversed order to that we first saw. Time is symbolised by the glass plates as time slices. Thus, time layers can also be seen as frozen time slices too from the perspective of a mental creature standing above time.
Research partners from other institutions:
Accademia di belle Arti di Brera in Milan (2004)
Other information:-
Publications (max. 5):
- Sculptural techniques Portraits: modeling, terracotta & plaster, 2013. ISBN 978-963-08-5762-8
- Doctoral dissertation: 2015 Possibilities of creating space illusion in sculpture DLA dissertation
http://doktori.mke.hu/sites/default/files/doktori/Dolgozat_15_01_20kisK…;
Masterpieces:
Short summary in English:
- http://doktori.mke.hu/sites/default/files/doktori/Sculpting%20Thesis%20…
- 2019 Catalogue of the exhibition, “Spacetime tailoring” Kroji proctor-casa – Galeria Kemijskega Instituta, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- I have to admit...: Creative crisis Be kell vallanom...: Alkotói válság. ÚJ MŰVÉSZET 2021 : 5 pp. 46-47. , 2 p. (2021)
- The aesthetics of an engineer: the memory of Dr. Szilárd Zielinski (Egy mérnök esztétikája: Dr. Zielinski Szilárd emlékezete)
- Edited by Kopitkó, Tünde Klára, Zielinski Szilárd College of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Budapest, Magyarország : Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Zielinski Szilárd Építőmérnöki Szakkollégium) (2022) 44 p. pp. 4-6. , 3 p.