Sachgebiete

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Ca. 50 S.; farb. Illustr.; 21,5 cm; kart.

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Gutes Ex. - Englisch. - Tommy Støckel (* 1972 in Kopenhagen) ist ein in Berlin lebender dänischer Künstler, der sich konzeptionell mit Skulpturen, Installationen und Collagen beschäftigt. Für seine Arbeiten produziert er Papiercollagen, geometrische Skulpturen und Installationen. Dabei benutzt er u. a. die Gelben Seiten und Kataloge von Modellfiguren. Støckel studierte von 1992 bis 1998 an der Königlich Dänischen Kunstakademie in Kopenhagen. ... (wiki) // ... His materials do not reflect space age possibilities, his imagery is not culled from electron microscopes and his processes are not the result of any liberal, cross-campus collaboration. St0ckel uses paper and card, polystyrene and glue; more a model maker's vocabulary than a research scientist's. This hobbyist aesthetic echoes the increasing accessibility of science to the lay community. The surge of popular science titles in the mass publishing market, again during the 1980s, heralded the beginning of a new relationship between the specialist and the general public. Former laboratory practitioners became 'science communicators' and science writers became translators of the arcane into the graspable. Technology was no longer the inexplicable manifestation of something mystical. A reader of New Scientist, for instance, could read, in layman's terms, how a space shuttle or a washing machine worked. The spectacular gradually became the vernacular. ... (Text STRANGE A TTRACTORS / Sally O'Reilly) ISBN 8798785575