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Jan Hendrix just opened two new exhibitions in Mexico. His tapestry production plays a major role in both displays. The new Burton series of tapestries, woven at Flanders Tapestries on a Jacquard loom, faces a series of silkscreen prints of fractured landscapes. The four new tapestries are on display as part of the solo exhibition 'Atlas' organised at Casa de Cultura Citibanamex – Museo Casa Montejo in Mérida (until May 28, 2023).
The Mythological Landscapes of Yagul series was also on show at 'Seamus Heaney & Jan Hendrix en Yagul' at the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CaSa) in Oaxaca (December 26, 2022 - April 16, 2023).
Factum Arte has worked with award-winning filmmaker, writer and artist Martha Fiennes for her new display of Yugen at Volte Art Projects (November 11 - December 12, 2022). Yugen is an AI-driven moving-image artwork that uses cutting-edge coding to create a continuous, self-selective and perpetually self-generating display.
Factum's 3D team collaborated with producer Peter Muggleston to generate a printable 3D file of one of the elements featured in the artwork: a spaceship, inspired by the mythological Indian vimanas. The 80cm-tall object is finished in holographic paint and displayed floating inside a Perspex case.
Works of elegant observational realism are focused on light and form – a constructivist aesthetic that Savelev credits to his 'methodical, scientific background'. These views of the artist’s hometown, Czernowitz in Ukraine, dating back to the 1980s, feel particularly poignant now.
- Michael Hoppen
The Ukrainian artist Boris Savelev is now a refugee in Spain. A new portfolio contains images selected by Boris that cover his creative life from 1971 until 2021, and was recently on display at Michael Hoppen Gallery's booth at Paris Photo 2022.
If you wish to purchase a portfolio, please write to: factum@factum-arte.com
As part of Avant Arte's public art programme, artist Tschabalala Self collaborated with Factum Arte on the creation of her first public work, installed at Coal Drops Yard, London, on October 5, 2022. The 2,40m-tall bronze sculpture started from a drawing by the artist, who closely worked with Factum Arte's 3D sculptor Irene Gaumé to rematerialise it as a three-dimensional piece, cast at Fademesa Foundry in Madrid.
Two other sculptures are also on display as part of the solo exhibition 'Home Body' (October 6 - December 17, 2022) at Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.
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© Lucy Emms
Shezad Dawood worked with Factum Arte to create his largest sculpture to date. HMS Alice Liddell was unveiled on September 29th 2022 hanging at St Pancras station in London.
HMS Alice Liddell is a 5m-wide sculpture of an elaborate, Gothic revival-inspired spaceship that plays around the station's 19th-century design, blending it with a futuristic and steampunk fiction aesthetic.
Marina Abramović worked with Factum Arte on new site-specific performance-based works for her solo exhibition 'Gates and Portals' (24 September 2022 - 5 March 2023) at Modern Art Oxford, following her research residency at the Pitt Rivers Museum during the summer of 2021.
The concept behind Portal stems from the idea of physical and spiritual transition, which translated into a 297cm-tall portal adorned with 190 selenite crystals jutting from its inner sides. A custom circuit of LED panels, designed by Factum Arte's engineering team, powers the light diffused through the minerals behind the black-painted steel cladding. More on the project
Photography by Thierry Bal. © Modern Art Oxford
Factum Arte worked with Christian Andersson to create Primer for his solo exhibition 'What has yet to take shape will protect me' (22 September - 29 October, 2022) at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art in Lisbon.
Primer started with creating a 3D model of a commercial all-in-one printer, which was scanned using a white light scanner in Factum Arte's studio. The 3D model was then rematerialised as a positive cast in terracotta, which the artist physically manipulated, ripping out its internal workings with his hands. After recording this mutilated clay doppelgänger using photogrammetry, the 3D model was then digitally ‘refined’ before 3D printing and painting.
The Museo Reina Sofía collaborated with Factum Arte to create the weavings included in Leonor Serrano Rivas´ solo exhibition 'Natural Magic', scheduled in the museum from 21 September 2022 to 27 February 2023. Tablas de la Luna is a textile installation that takes its name from the Tables of the Motion of the Moon by Ernest W. Brown (1919), who tried to synthesise the movements and rotations of the moon on mathematical tables.
The series of tapestries was conceived by the artist when observing the similarity between the punched cards once used in music (especially pianola playing) and old Jacquard looms.
After the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Grayson Perry's Covid Bell was on show at the Founder's Hall of the Worshipful Company of Founders, during their annual Open House on September 10th and 11th.
The Founder's Company, with its first records documented in 1365, is one of the oldest craftsmen guilds in London and still has a very active fellowship. Today it runs three charities which have been successful in supporting a variety of people, many of whom are in the start of their career as either material scientists, or artists who work with metal.
Throughout history, bells have commemorated the dead and also celebrated the living. The Covid Bell continues and updates this tradition, also celebrating the artistic and technical skills of the metalworking industry. The bell was fabricated by Factum Arte and Factum Foundation, cast by Pangolin Foundry, Gloucestershire and tuned by Nigel Taylor working with Nicholson Engineering in Dorset, and was kindly donated by Grayson Perry to revitalise bell making in the UK following the highly publicised closure of Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
"The London Bell Foundry was formed to demonstrate that casting bells has a bright future, and Grayson’s generosity has made this possible. The next two artist bells will be made by Paula Crown and Conrad Shawcross." – Adam Lowe, Director of Factum Arte
Part of the series Fallen Sky, conceived by Sarah Sze in 2021 and made in collaboration with Factum Arte, Wider than the Sky was on display for the solo exhibition 'Sarah Sze' at Gagosian Athens (8 September - 20 October, 2022).
The individual pieces composing the sculpture were cast in stainless steel at Fademesa Foundry from the 3D-printed models created at Factum Arte, paying special attention to the top of the piece: the perfectly-polished surface was achieved by welding a custom-bent curve sheet of metal on top of the cast base, seamlessly joining the two surfaces together.
Grayson Perry's series A Vanity of Small Differences, created in 2012 working with Factum Arte and Flanders Tapestries, was exhibited in Salisbury Cathedral, London (29 June - 25 September, 2022). Comprised of six tapestries, the series tells the tale of Tim Rakewell's rise and fall (based on the main character of A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth, 1732-33), with each work marking a point in the ‘class journey’ of the protagonist.
© Photo by Finnbarr Wester
For the 2022 edition of the Venice Biennale, Factum Arte worked with Muhannad Shono on the site-specific installation for the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia. The work was on show until November 27, 2022.
The Teaching Tree is a 260-square-meter sculptural work made of dried palm leaves, blackened and applied over a metallic structure animated by a pneumatic machine. The work expands and contracts inside the space both visually and mechanically, giving it the impression of calm and steady breathing.
Factum Arte and Factum Foundation worked on two facsimiles of anatomy-themed paintings: Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman, from the Amsterdam Museum and Bosch's The Extraction of the Stone of Madness from the Museo del Prado.
'Human Brains: It Begins with an Idea' (23 April - 27 November, 2022) brought together documents, drawings, paintings, prints and books challenged by the words of fiction writers and a collection of interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, neurolinguists and philosophers from all over the world.
An Awake Heart is a set of intricate, hand-woven textiles woven by Farah Behbehani. It was the subject of a new collaboration between the Kuwait-born artist, Athr Gallery and Factum Arte. The new production on display at Art Dubai 2022 (March 11-13, 2022) was the result of an innovative project aimed at mediating the shape and colour of textiles into an elevated-printed medium, and potentially into other productions.
The surface detail of the original silk and silver thread embroidered triangles was digitised, aiming at retaining the reflectivity and handmade nature of the original objects.
The concept of ceramic as the art of mixing and making of different and diverse minerals, to create something new but still deeply rooted in its basic elements, is at the centre of the public art installation Geology Rebuilt, created in collaboration with Factum Arte. Installed just above Tottenham Court station in London on January 28, 2022, Geology Rebuilt aims to bring something "brutal and geological" to the city, showing a new way of rebuilding geology from ceramics. The contrast between the traditional brick wall behind the contemporary sculpture shows how different the end results of the same materials can be.
The production process followed several steps, which were coordinated by Factum's engineering team.
'Koraïchi plays with the number seven throughout the exhibition both theoretically and literally. The artworks appear in multiples of seven; there are fourteen canvases, fourteen steel sculptures, and a group of six alabaster tablets lining the path to a monumental tapestry.
It is a divine number and omnipresent.'
- Aicon Gallery
For his third solo exhibition in the U.S. (February 3 - March 12, 2022), Rachid Koraïchi's long-standing collaboration with Factum Arte saw the production of new bodies of work, linked both to his Jardin d'Afrique and his exploration of calligraphy. Next to the large Jardin d'Afrique tapestry and the complete series of Les Vigilants (seven calligraphic sculptures in black painted Corten steel) created in 2021, two new series are also on display.
The six panels of Le Chant de l'Ardent Désir are the largest artworks by Koraïchi made in alabaster to date and La Montagne aux Étoiles is the result of the artist and Factum Arte's exploration of the balance between technology and traditional calligraphy.
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Bernd Nicolaissen's new production is centered on the Australian Pilbara crater, an area that covers the Earth’s oldest rock formations and was irreversibly damaged in 2020. This video describes the experimental process that happened within Factum Arte between 2019 and 2021, involving elevated printing technology by Canon Production Printing. Factum experimented with gelatine inkjet printing over six glass plates, each one adding depth and colour in "building" the final result layer after layer. Encased within an illuminated aluminum box, the Stratagram is a three-dimensional visualisation of the work of geological eras.
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A film by Cédric Marville
The Adoration of the Kings painted between about 1510 and 1515 by Jan Gossaert (also known as Jean Gossart) within the collection of the National Gallery in London was recently the subject of an in-depth study. Accurate recordings revealed the complexity behind this large (179.8 × 163.2 cm) 16th-century altarpiece, depicting the Three Wise Kings (Balthasar, Caspar and Melchior) visiting the newborn Christ.
After recording the painting in high resolution using their Lucida 3D Scanner and colour photography, the National Gallery requested Factum Arte to produce a perfect facsimile to be displayed within the exhibition 'Sensing the Unseen: Step into Gossaert’s ‘Adoration’ inside the Winchester Cathedral (January 22 - April 3, 2022).
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