Art + Objects

5 larger-than-life sculptures

5 Zephyr sculptures by the artist Monira Al Qadiri,
dinoflagellates (plankton) magnified approx. 20,000 times,
made of solid PLEXIGLAS® GS blocks.
Dimensions up to 3,2m x 2,4m and thicknesses over 900mm,
5-Axis milled and illuminated by LED’s in the base.
Permanent installation in West Beach Front, Doha.

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MONIRA AL QADIRI | ZEPHYR
KÖNIG GALERIE   (koeniggalerie.com)

material:
PLEXIGLAS® block 0F00
size:
height: h = up to 2400 mm
width: b = up to 3200 mm
thickness: t = up to 900 mm

blue horses

  • sculpture park Werner Schneider,
    Neu-Ulm
  • Photograph: Dieter Blum
material:
PLEXIGLAS® block 0F00
size:
height: h = 3000 mm
width: w = 3300 mm
thickness t = 170 mm
weight: wt = 2 t

Snow Globe

  • artist: Bethan Huws
  • the snow globe contains 450 l of water

material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
glass bowl:
thermal forming from one block
3D CNC milled
polished
bonding to bottom
size:
diameter: Ø = 965 mm
height: h = 780 mm
thickness: t = 20 mm
thickness bottom: t = 80 mm
weight: wt = approx. 100 kg

Light beam Oak

  • Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
  • artist: Vera Röhm
  • in collaboration with
    Bildgießerei Hermann Noack
    GmbH & Co. KG
material:
Bronze
PLEXIGLAS® GS
Bronze
window size:
length: l = 9705 mm
width: w = 520 mm
thickness: t = 60 mm
weight: wt = approx. 0,36 t

Trapezium 1884

  • for Schlüter Systems KG,
    Iserlohn
  • Christoph Dahlhausen
    – art in public space –
material:
PLEXIGLAS®0F00
8 blocks and molded parts
colored translucent
partially thermally deformed
size:
length: l = up to 5000 mm
width: w = up to 3000 mm
thickness: t = 60 mm

Color Code

  • High School Waldram, Germany
  • artist couple
    Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger
material:
PLEXIGLAS®
transparent, translucent coloured
or muted coloured
coloured bar:
lamination of a wide variety of plates
size:
length up to: l = 8000 mm
width: w = 170 mm
thickness: t = 100 mm

Stone-Water-Glass Sculpture

  • wall of water, Mönchengladbach
  • Santander Consumer Bank AG
  • design: Prof. Heinz Mack
  • in collaboration with
    company Koplan
material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
Sölker Marmor
wall of water:
7 pieces internal holes
diameter: ø 60 mm
block bonding
elaboration of the top water pocket / overflow
rework of the surfaces
3-D milled
size:
length: l = 12600 mm
height: h = 3700 mm
thickness: t = 160 mm
weight: wt = approx. 8.75 t

Lens

  • Carl Zeiss company, Oberkochen, Germany
  • artist: Chris Nägele
material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
solid lens:
both surfaces convex 5-axis milled
ground and polished
size:
diameter: Ø = 3000 mm
thickness: t = 160 mm
weight: wt = approx. 950 kg

Aqualux

  • Dresden: reproduction of a
    meandering river course
  • artist: Kirsten Kaiser
material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
TRANSAQUA®
block:
thermally deformed
with LED-illumination
size:
unwinding: l = 2000 mm
radius: r = approx. 4000 mm
height: h = 1000 mm
thickness: t = 100 mm

Mercedes-Benz Museum

  • Stuttgart
  • Daimler Chrysler company
  • artist: Prof. Franz Erhard Walther

 

material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
silk-screen print
17 word panels:
angle adapted to the spherically curved wall
3-D milled
screen printing behind glass
size:
length: l = up to 3580 mm
width: w = 600 mm
height: h = 250 mm
material thickness: t = 10 and 20 mm
weight: wt = up to approx. 70 kg

Five Continents

  • Stuttgart-Möhringen
  • Daimler Crysler AG company
  • artist: Walter de Maria, New York
  • in collaboration with Josef Gartner company, Gundelfingen
material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
TRANSAQUA®
steel
cube:
filled with approx. 250 tons of white stones
from 5 continents
size:
5 x 5 x 5 m
window dimensions:
length: l = 2500 mm
width: wb = 1500 mm
thickness: t = 60 mm
weight PLEXIGLAS®: wt = approx. 6.5 t
steel construction:
weight steel: wt = approx. 12.5 t

Nautile

  • designer: Peter Harvey
  • assisted by: Tobias Reymond
material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
chair sculpture:
laminated into a solid block
3-D milled
ground and polished by hand
size:
diameter: Ø = 1100 mm
thickness: t = 450 mm
weight: wt = 270 kg

Formula

  • Venice Biennale 2011
  • ”One of a Thousand Ways
    to Defeat Entropy”
  • water installation “Formula”
    on the subject of “Entropy”
  • artist: Alexander Ponomarev
material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
TRANSAQUA®
2 water cylinders:
thermally deformed
bonding to cylinder
bonding with bottom
size:
height: h = 7800 mm
diameter: Ø = 1500 mm
thickness: t = 60 mm
weight per cylinder: wt = approx. 3 t

Forbidden Fruit

  • designer: Peter Harvey
  • supported by: Stephan Falk
material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
bronze
chair sculpture:
lamination to solid block
3-D CNC milled
ground and polished by hand
size:
diameter: Ø = 375 mm
height: h = 415 mm
weight: wt = approx. 38 kg

Abzug

  •  artist: Chris Nägele
material:
PLEXIGLAS® 0F00
metall
sculpture size:
dimension: 800 x 270 x 270 mm