500 or so free rides around the sun after the canvas, maybe the time has came to look at the story from a XXI-st century’s point of view.
But as things go, a point of view is just a point of view and most probably as the free ride continues, others may come up with other opinions. This is mine!!
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Note: “Table of Silence” is part of a trilogy:
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Rada Vlascici
Engineering’s my profession,
sculpture is my passion!
Motto:
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication!
Born and educated in Romania.
Migrated to Australia in 1986.
Reflections:
ENERGY, mother of all bricks, created a puzzle that we try to solve using tools such as science, art and whatever else comes in handy. When everything else fails, we mask our impotence behind excuses such as †, ±∞, which in my opinion, mark the frontiers where the trap of our current tools allowed us to reach.
A good deal of my work is presented in this webpage; some, I do not have access to. Whether you call this art or not, this is your judgement! My great pleasure and joy was in bringing it to life!
I can only hope that you’ll be visually pleased! Everything else is a bonus.
In Memoriam: My whole work is dedicated to the courage, strength and honour of my mother: Kurth (Vlascici) Magdalena –Leni- 1933-2004.
You can download this information
about Rada Vlascici Australian Artist here.
Sooner or later, you’ll enter the eternal cycle!
Features:
Height: 1850 mm
Features:
Juglans regia (Carpathian walnut)
Completion date: 1985
Features:
Geometry: 1.5 times real hand size
Total width: 175 cm
Materials:
Juglans regia (Carpathian walnut)
Completion date: 1985
This work focuses on the subjectivity and perception of “reality”.
There are many realities as there are human subjects, except for life’s fundamentals: food, air and water. Everything else …
Parallel lines, may not be parallel for the untrained subject, and illusion may become the leading belief.
Question: Is the cross The Truth or is it The Illusion?
One thing is very clear to me: The Plum bob does not lie!!!
Materials:
Eucalyptus crebra (Iron bark).
Eucalyptus tereticomis (Blue Gum).
Plum bob: brass (Cu + Zn)
Work started in 1985 (Romania)
Work finished in 2000 (Australia)
Location: Australia – in private ownership
“Man’s World” is a reflection upon male sexuality throughout an individual’s life span, as It was, as It is in normal male/female relations and It probably will be, unless some twisted brain connections unsettle the fragile circus that keeps the increasingly shaky balance in place.
Features:
Total height: 200 cm (6′ 7″)
Total weight: 200 kg.
Materials:
Eucalyptus crebra (Iron bark).
Eucalyptus tereticomis (Blue Gum).
Herk alloy chain.
Finalized in 1998
Location: Australia – in private ownership
No matter who you think you are, sooner or later, your spiritual make up, the inner compass if you wish, must face north!
One’s soul is accountable to the basic truth.
The lie is not an option, never was, never will be!
Think about it!
Features:
Total height: 215 cm
Total width: 175 cm
Materials:
Eucalyptus crebra (Ironbark)
Eucalyptus tereticornis (Blue gum)
Herk alloy chain.
Grade 316 stainless steel.
Work finalised in 2003
Things work in finite cycles.
Things work on different energy levels.
Do we understand them?
Will we understand them?
This are the issues looked at in this optimistic version of “The Wheel”
The next version of “The Wheel” will be bolder and will be part of a trilogy.
The next member of the trilogy is 75% completed.
If things go as they should, it will be finished by the end of 2012.
Features:
Four wheels spinning inside each other:
Wheel diameters:
Seven hubs
Each wheel has 9 spokes of unique design.
Total weight: 800 kg
Materials:
Eucalyptus crebra
Steel X4140 (axle)
Sealed roller bearings
Brass (Cu + Zn)
Grade 314 Stainless steel (tyres on all 4 wheels)
Work completed in 1998.
Location: Australia – in private ownership.