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Architect’s Eye is a moving sculpture by Moscow-based architecture firm SPeeCH Tchoban & Kuznetsov.
About the project:
The high-tech sculpture, called Architect’s Eye, is a smooth and reflective spherical structure emulating the human eyeball as its focus shifts from the sky to the ground to the rest of its surrounding area, with the pupils effectively dilating and contracting. The iris of the eye also has the mesmerizing ability to change color…The sculpture is ultimately meant to symbolize an architect’s most valuable organs (eyes) and the ability to discern visual designs throughout history and all walks of life around us.
Shelley James is an Artist in Residence at the Bristol Eye Hospital. Her glass work ranges from direct representations of her research into this complex organ to playful meditations on the subject.
These incredibly detailed images of eyes aren’t photos. They’re oil paintings from Marc Quinn’s 2009 exhibition Iris (We share our chemistry with the stars).
About the exhibition:
These round canvases each depict in gigantic scale the iris of a human eye – turbulently streaked and spotted, suffused with bright colors, and highly individual. Although photo- realistic, the disembodied images might equally serve as renditions of whirling interstellar space.
Recurring themes in Quinn’s work – the body and identity, flesh and the spirit – are ex- amined at their foundation: since pre-Biblical times the eyes have been likened to repre- sentations of the soul. Quinn considers the eyes to be “doors of perception… the link bet- ween us and the world”. As in the seminal work “Self” from 1991 – in which the Artist’s head was cast in his own blood and frozen – these irises show Quinn’s fascination with bringing the inside out; “they are like a leakage of the vivid interior world of the body to the monochrome world of the skin”.
Holiday gift alert! You can now buy an Iris scarf.
Animal Eyes is an ongoing project by Suren Manvelyan
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