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All photos © Paul Villinski, courtesy of the artist and Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, shared with permission
From discovered objects like aluminum cans, bottles, knives, and vinyl data, Paul Villinski frames myriad interpretations of flight. The artist’s solo exhibition Flight Patterns at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park attracts on his background as a licensed pilot, casting the expertise of airborne movement by means of the thematic lenses of hope and transformation.
Villinski is understood for his rhythmic, sculptural compositions of swarming bugs, which discover topics like environmentalism, habit and restoration, and meals insecurity. In Flight Patterns, an set up of lots of of miniature liquor bottles undulates like a starling murmuration. One other wall sculpture splays quite a few knives like hen feathers from a larger-than-life, metallic wingspan. By reshaping aluminum from discovered cans into the fragile wings of butterflies, or chopping LPs into the silhouettes of birds, the artist re-envisions the worth of discarded or dated supplies.
A keystone work within the exhibition is a World Warfare II B-25 bomber that has been scaled to suit contained in the galleries, out of which canned items and packaged meals stream onto the bottom. The historic image of navy power, which might maintain a bomb load of greater than 3,000 kilos, is reimagined as an instrument for fixing international meals shortage.
Flight Patterns continues by means of August 18 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Discover extra on the artist’s web site.
Set up view of ‘Flight Patterns’
“Prescience” (2017), discovered aluminum cans, wire, and soot, 55.5 x 46.5 x 6.5 inches
Set up view of ‘Flight Patterns’
“Gyre” (2017), aluminum (discovered cans), wire, and flashe, 80 x 80 x 9 inches
“Aerialist” (2017), knives, metal, and wooden, 31.5 x 125 x 13 inches
Set up view of ‘Flight Patterns’
Set up view of ‘Flight Patterns’
“Wishful Considering” (1998), metal and leather-based boots, 32 x 9 x 13 inches
Set up view of ‘Flight Patterns’
#birds
#flight
#bugs
#set up
#Paul Villinski
#sculpture
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