3D Structure 2022.Bremen

1.- Data

Installation in the Faculty of Engineering Vitoria-Gasteiz

Title: 3DStructure 2022.Bremen
Art and Project: Juan Carlos Olabe y Xabier Basogain - JC&X
Collaborators: (see list below)
Technique: 3D fir wood structure
Size: 361 cm x 408 cm x 266 cm
Date: September 19, 2022 - June 6, 2023
Place: external garden of the EIVG, next to the east side access

The structure 2022.Bremen has been designed around one of the most simple and common structures in geometry, the cube. 2022.Bremen contains two super-cubes, where each super-cube is subdivided into 8 smaller cubes. All of them, super-cubes and cubes, are incomplete, that is, they have fewer than the 12 edges of a complete cube.

The edges of the structure are positioned at a 45 degree angle with respect to the floor, as well as the traditionally vertical walls of buildings.

Finally, the structure has the property of transparency: the viewer can perceive the totality of the its elements from almost all points of view. This is obtained by implementing its edges as a combination parallel lines: magenta, white, or black.

The combination of all these factors, inclination, incomplete cubes, subdivisions, connection of two super-cubes, and structural transparency, provides a dynamic experience to the viewer. As we walk around the structure, we perceive a series of contrasting perspectives. We see structures composed of rhombuses, triangles, diamonds, hexagons, squares or rectangles.

The structure invites the viewer to understand how those multiple dynamic symmetries are created from a single static structure. It invites to reflect on how perceptions are, in general, incomplete and that the meaning of true understanding goes beyond mere visual perception. 2022.Bremen invites a dialog among the eye, the mind, and the structure.