iHammer Museum · Westwood
Hammer Projects: Vibeke Mascini
An installation using electroforming to grow copper over plants and cables, exploring electricity as a form of interconnectedness.
At the center is a young ceiba tree cast in copper, and the copper came from electrical wire stripped in Mexico City. Its roots are electroformed onto a cable, and that cable powers an LED streetlight glowing violet.
You'll find root and wiring, in LA Insider's words, "difficult to tell apart". Against that cool light the Hammer sets the warm amber of Amber Highway: three resin forms shaped like suspended moth pupae, built with taxidermied moths, amber stone and jump-start cables, each running off its own 12-volt car battery. Both are new commissions about public lighting in Los Angeles. LA's streetlights keep going dark because thieves strip their copper; this one runs on stripped copper, grown into a tree.
It's a small Hammer Projects show of two new works by the Dutch artist. Entry is free, Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm.
Nicht verpassen
Zombie's copper ceiba tree
A young ceiba tree cast in copper from stripped Mexico City electrical wire, its roots electroformed onto the cable that runs to the streetlight.
The violet streetlight
Look for the LED streetlight at the end of Zombie's circuit, glowing violet on power carried through the tree's roots.
Amber Highway
Three resin forms shaped like suspended moth pupae, made with taxidermied moths, amber stone and jump-start cables, each glowing amber off its own car battery.
Gut für
- Kultur für wenig Geld
- Stadtkenner
- Regentage
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- Hammer Projects: Vibeke MasciniCourtesy of the artist. Photo: Baroeg Mulder
- Berggeister: Reis und indigene Identität im nördlichen Hochland von Luzon, Philippinen (Mountain Spirits: Rice and Indigeneity in the Northern Luzon Highlands, Philippines)Courtesy of Fowler Museum at UCLA
- Uhengaparaoa, Taonga Tuku Iho: Ahnenvermächtnisse und zeitgenössische Māori-Kunst (Uhengaparaoa, Taonga Tuku Iho: Ancestral Gifts and Contemporary Māori Art)Courtesy of Fowler Museum at UCLA
- Textilien als Monument (Textiles as Monument)Courtesy of Fowler Museum at UCLA
- Hammer MuseumAlexis Doine / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Fowler Museum at UCLAFuzzy901 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0