Ichwan noor biography definition
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Ichwan Noor: cars like you've never seen them
Ichwan Noor is a Yogyakarta-based artist famous for his life-size sculptures of hybrid shapes between human, animal and technology.A graduate of the School of Visual Art at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) in Yogyakarta, and a professor of Fine Arts at Yogyakarta University, Noor works mainly with bronze, aluminium and resin. He is called 'The Maker', a nickname he earned by mentoring other artists and sharing his knowledge of the world of materials with them.In 2011 he began what is his best-known series, the Beetle sphere, the protagonist is the 1953 Volkswagen Beetle that is compacted into a new form.
The original design of the car was supposedly based on a sketch bygd Adolf Hitler, or at any rate it was he who commissioned Porsche to design a car for the average German family that had a bränsle consumption of no more than 7 litres per 100 km, was air-cooled, could reach and maintain a speed of 100 km/h for long journeys a
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Beetle sphere takes the vehicle's iconic curves to the extreme. Responding to the car's loaded political history and signature design, the work features the twentieth-century design classic warped into a sphere comprised of authentic and fabricated components. To avoid the damage involved in reshaping a real car, Noor carved a spherical polyurethane replica of the vehicle's body and then cast it in aluminium. A separate spherical interior was produced and fit to the cast exterior. The resulting sculpture is augmented with original car parts by the manufacturer to complete the illusion.
The idea emerged from a personal perception towards objects that are products of a 'transportation culture', which induces hints/signs of spiritual emotion. To behold a vehicle (car) is to have a 'magical' (supernatural) identity. By combining the techniques of manipulation and substitution, the form of this sculpture tends toward realistic distortion, which allows new i