Rotomoulded Art Installations

Rotomoulding is increasingly being used in the design and production of art pieces. Here we have included just a few examples.....

Picture shown here "Flow" by Zahir Hadid

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons
Bowl With Eggs & Cat On A Clothesline

Legendary modern artist Jeffry Koons has used the rotational moulding process for two of his pieces Bowl With Eggs & Cat On A Clothesline...

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons (born January 21 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects-such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. Koons' work has sold for substantial sums of money including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. The largest sum known to be paid for a work by Koons is Balloon flower (Magenta) which was sold at Christie's London on Monday June 30 2008 (Lot 00012) in the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale where it sold for £12 921 250 or $25 765 204. Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch: crass and based on cynical self-merchandising. Koons has stated that there are no hidden meanings in his
works. Read more about Jeff Koons on Wikipedia.

Media About The Pieces & Designer From ARTnews "The Selling of Jeff Koons"

Greg Lynn
Blob Wall

Somewhere between sculpture interior design architecture and science fiction is the Blob Wall from architect Greg Lynn.

Blob Wall is a modular wall system made of lightweight honeycomb material designed by architect Greg Lynn. The material is a low-density recyclable and impact resistant polymer. It is a free standing wall that has Interior/Exterior applications. Each piece fits into each other like a jigsaw blocks to achieve a whole range of 3d configurations. The weird shape was achieved with the use
of a CNC machine.

While the Blob software has been part of FORM studio's toolbox for a number of years Lynn's vision for the Blob Wall could only be realized once the collaboration with Panelite a company specializing in innovative architectural materials took flight. The modules that make up Blob Wall are a low-density recyclable and impact-resistant polymer. Each one of the Blob units is custom-shaped using a 3D Robotic arm developed by Machineous a Los Angeles firm that works with architects on custom rapid prototyping projects of this kind. The arm creates individual tri-lobed hollow forms.

Unlike a brick wall - or any other modular structure for that matter - the Blob Wall is composed of uniquely intersecting modules. No two Walls are alike.And while FORM first experimented with 5 initial prototypes - such as the igloo s-curve or u-curve - the possibilities within these forms are highly variable. Combine that with the expansive selection of colours and the variations forBlob Wall are essentially infinite. While Lynn's studio's

proposals have straddled the edges between art design and architecture for some time the Blob Wall may actually leap over the edge to challenge the buildingblocks of architecture. Media About The Piece or Designer

Cracking Art Group
Pink Snails

The snails originated in Italy where the Cracking Art Group (CAP) is infamous for creating a number of other giant animals and sculptures (CAP is known for sticking tortoises in the 2009 G-8 Environmental Summit in Siracusa Italy). The group is committed to sustainability and expresses their fervor through creating sculptures from recycled plastic - one aspect that the city of Miami found particularly appealing. "Recycling is so much a part of the culture now that it's easy to forget how important it is and that we can always do more. This fun art project will make people stop and wonder- and then stop and think " says Miami Beach Mayor Matti Bower.

The installation's official name is "The REgeneration Art project " but it's best characterized by the name of its website: pinksnails.com. While in Florida some of the snails will also be lit by solar-powered lights but we anticipate all of them will stick out like alien orbs along the Miami expressways provoking laughter rolled eyes and maybe a sense of amused foreboding.

Read more: Giant Pink Recycled Plastic Snails Will Invade Miami! | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World