Vasily Klyukin
Book description
This book presents the extraordinary three-dimensional “live sculptures” by the Russian architect, designer, writer and artist.
Having some engineering experience, Klyukin was able to experiment and derive a concept of connecting steel sheets on a non-existent, speculative axis without any actual fasteners. The principle of mobility of each individual piece…
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I first met Klyukin’s huge, foldable-section metal sculptures at the Venice Biennale.
I had heard of him, but was overwhelmed by the size and quantity—plus his writings that appeared on ceiling-height, painted fabric banners. Particularly of note: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and his collection called In Dante Veritas, which pulls the characters and their sins out of Dante’s Inferno, and updates them in sculpture and words to the 21st Century.
From Sara's list on beautiful imagery and intriguing text.
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