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N186 — Worldwide
Handmade, bold, big, white, complex, strong, abstract, photogenic, artistic, decorative, interesting, symbolical 186 ceramic tubes forming a spherical sculpture – forming N186.
N186 was designed specially for the Venice Biennial Architecture exhibition “Time Space Existence”, approaching new boundaries outside of a classical architecture firm by working with new materials such as ceramic.
The seemingly crystalline object with a total diameter of 2700 millimeters was manufactured by the ceramics expert Laufen in its Innovation Center in Austria, is staged by the projection artists from Ochoresotto, accompanied by electro-acoustics by the Sound Designer Josef Gründler.
N186 was manufactured by using SaphirKeramik – one of the latest, globally significant innovations from Laufen.
With a simultaneous mix of fragility, stability, centrality, spectrality, and explosiveness that is determined by the play of light, the object combines various aspects of architectural creativity: concept, material, design, technology, and the precise realization thereof.
The crystalline-looking white object has a total diameter of 2,700 millimeters. Superimposed by multidimensional projections, the imposing spatial object is immersed in ever new atmospheric levels of meaning. It seems to be of intangible volume, appears fragile, stable, central, spectral and explosive at the same time.
„We would like to thank our supporters, sponsors and partners, without whose generous support the exhibitions could not take place in this form.“
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Breaking boundaries without breaking
N186 was manufactured by using SaphirKeramik – one of the latest, globally significant innovations from Laufen used when a design includes very delicate, thin-walled shapes and tight radii, which in the past were generally realized using mineral casting, glass or enamelled steel.
