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Brushstrokes of Paint, Frozen in Resin

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We’ve long admired the work of Fabien Oefner. His creativity brings a sense of space and physicality, along with a keen graphical sense. 

From exploded sneakers to an entire vehicle, he definitely explores new mediums with enthusiasm, and the work is often stunning.

His latest work Volumen takes his trademark 3D brushstrokes, and embeds them into blocks of resin. It’s a visually delicious 

The result is a collection that feels fresh, new, and dynamic, even in our world of instant gratification.

See more on Oefner’s website.

“I have always been fascinated by the textural quality of paintings. For me, experiencing works like de Kooning’s Door to the River or Pollock’s Lavender Misthas always been as much a tactile experience as a visual one.

These paintings are almost like sculptures to me. What I am doing is removing the canvas entirely and lifting the paint into space, making its physicality completely tangible.”

Images © Copyright Fabien Hefner. 

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Wild Deconstructed Sneakers by Fabian Oefner

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Artist Fabian Oefner has a brilliant way of taking every objects, and exploding them into precise pieces. Here we see some items from his Heisenberg Series, which brilliantly deconstructs sneakers into a myriad of slices and pieces.

See more on his website.

Images © Copyright Fabian Oefner. 

Via the artist’s website:

“The sculptures of the Heisenberg Series are based on Werner Heisenberg`s famous Uncertainty Principle. This theory states, that you can not measure two separate parameters of a particle simultaneously.

You can either determine one parameter and ignore the other or vice versa, but you can never know everything at once.”

“Inspired by science, Oefner`s approach to art is highly methodical and at the same time playful for unexpected moments to happen. He creates carefully orchestrated works, that are planned down to the last detail as well as pieces, that use a loose framework for art to happen.”

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Fantastical Ferrofluid Millefiori by Fabian Oefner

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These wondrous, colorful creations are made using ferrofluid and watercolor inks, using the magnetic properties to create hyper-vibrant channels, grouped dot patterns and abstract forms.

The work of Swiss artist Fabian Oefner, the series is called Millefiori, and provides a psychedelic look at what’s possible with the magnetic solution, which was discovered in 1963 by NASA.

See more of Oefner’s wide-ranging and impressive work on his website.

All images © Copyright Fabian Oefner. 

 

“I usually get my inspiration from magazines or blogs on science and technology but also from other artists from different fields like photography, painting or sculpting.

Every now and then I come across a technology or a material, that I find interesting to experiment with and from there on, a project sometimes develops.

So for example with the Millefiori series I first tried out creating different shapes of the ferrofluid itself and then started to add all different kinds of other liquids to it and see what happens.”

Via It’s Nice That

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Fabian Oefner’s Sliced Sneakers

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Fascinating sculptural work by Fabian Oefner, who has become an expert in the world of visual deconstruction.

In the Heisenberg Series, Oefner takes everyday objects and deconstructs them just enough to create a new visual experience. The sneakers in these examples have been carefully sliced and rearranged to feel familiar but new.

It’s a painstaking but impressive end result, one that shows the power of transformation, even with something mundane like a shoe.

From Oefner’s website:

“Through this transformation, the objects have a peculiar effect on their observer: When you look at them from a distance, you can easily identify the object. However, if you start to get closer to observe its inner workings, the shape of the object starts to get distorted and vanishes completely. As an observer you are never able to observe the object as a whole and its inner workings simultaneously.  The more accurately we see one view, the less clearly we see the other.”

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Fabian Oefner’s Exceptional Exploding Car

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We’re quite sure you’ve never seen a classic, 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV like this before.  Artist Fabian Oefner is known for his series called Disintegrating, which dramatically shatters cars into thousands of pieces.

His previous pieces, however, dealt with detailed scale models, not a full-size, complex car. This time, he had the opportunity to ‘explode’ a friend’s beautiful, iconic Lamborghini, suspending thousands of pieces on black threads, and photographing the dramatic composition. It’s a beautiful and impressive undertaking. Via the artist’s website:

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Paint Vortex

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Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Spinning paint, by Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner. Using a modified power drill, Oefner captures flinging paint at just the right moment.

The motion of the paint happens in a blink of an eye, the images you see are taken only millisecond after the drill was turned on. To capture the moment, where the paint forms that distinctive shape, I connected a sensor to the drill, which sends an impulse to the flashes. These specialized units are capable of creating flashes as short as a 1/40000 of a second, freezing the motion of the paint.

Via Colossal:

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

Black Hole: Photographs of Paint Flung by Centrifugal Force by Fabian Oefner paint high speed

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Millefiori

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These have got to be some of the more beautiful forms I’ve ever seen. Check out the video here to see the creation of these wondrous colors and shapes.
Millefiori by Fabian Oefner:
The shapes, you see in these image are about the size of a thumbnail. They are created by mixing ferrofluid with water color and putting it into a magnetic field.
Ferrofluid is a magnetic solution with a viscosity similar to motor oil. When put under a magnetic field, the iron particles in the solution start to rearrange, forming the black channels and separating the water colors from the ferrofluid. The result are these peculiar looking structures.
On itsnicethat.com, you can find out more about the project.
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