KORBAN FLAUBERT

SCREEN SCULPTURE

THE ARCHITECTS, RICE DAUBNEY, DEVELOPED A SPACE OF IMMACULATE HUGE COOL PLANAR ELEMENTS, FINELY DETAILED IN WHITE GLASS SCALES, GREEN SLATE, ZINC AND MARBLE. WE WANTED TO DEVELOP THE NEW SCREEN ELEMENT AS A SCULPTURAL CONTRAST TO THIS, USING EVERY INCH OF THE MASSIVE SCALE AVAILABLE. WE ALSO WANTED TO DEVELOP AN ELEMENT THAT WOULD UTILIZE AND CONTRAST THE MANY DIFFERENT APPROACHES AND VIEWPOINTS.

THE MAD SWELLING SERPENTINE FIGURE EVOLVED FROM THE IDEA OF MAKING A JOYFUL, ANARCHIC CONTRAST TO THE CARTESIAN VOLUME AND COOL TEXTURES. THE FORM IMPLIES LIQUID MOVEMENT, COMMUNICATION, A CONNECTIVE TUBULAR WEB OR STREAM.

THE WAVE FORM WAS GENERATED INITIALLY AS A GRAPHIC; A VOLUMETRIC FORM WHICH WOULD GENERATE MOVING INTERFERENCE PATTERNS AS PEOPLE WALKED BY AND VARIOUS DEGREES OF TRANSPARENCY, AT POINTS LETTING THE OBSERVER LOOK ALONG, INSIDE AND THROUGH THE FORM.

WE HAD TESTED SOME OF THESE IDEAS OUT IN OUR EARLIER MEMBRANE CHAISE LONGUE PROJECT, USING A VERY PRECISE SPIRAL WOUND WELDED MESH.