Kvadrat Acoustics has helped to stage a tapestry set up – Others Will Know by Miriam Bäckströmat – on the Buffalo AKG Museum in upstate New York. The piece merges textiles and images and is a part of a year-long celebration of newly commissioned works following the museum’s 2023 opening.
Wrapping across the decrease foyer of the museum’s Jeffrey E Gundlach Constructing, the 36.6m set up transforms the area and enhances acoustic high quality.
Swedish artist Bäckströmat creates three-dimensional experiences from two-dimensional photographs. Right here, her course of started with the selection of a vibrant material that was initially designed for bathing fits, with a sample paying homage to lighthouse tower lenses. She then used 3D know-how and digital actuality to remodel a textile swatch right into a photographic curvilinear sculpture.
With the assistance of a crew of weavers and the Kvadrat Acoustics crew – which specialises in customisable acoustic options for creative and architectual tasks –the piece was translated right into a mesmerising wall-mounted tapestry.
Kvadrat Acoustics stretched the art work throughout 11 of its Kvadrat Smooth Cells Broadline panels. To permit the piece to wrap fluidly across the area’s distinctive angles and intersections, the crew used ‘a form-finding algorithm to calculate the panels’ exact curvatures’. It additionally labored with OMA and Studio Miriam Bäckström to optimise the panel efficiency and guarantee picture alignment, and developed a novel set up system.
Says Bäckstrom, ‘The idea is that when getting into the museum, you additionally enter a sculpture, giving the phantasm that it’s bigger than the museum itself. You enter one other room than anticipated, and that’s what the acoustic expertise helps as nicely.’
Add the Kvadrat Acoustics crew, ‘It’s superb to have an artist like Miriam Bäckström selecting a Kvadrat Acoustics product to showcase her art work; to see an artwork piece on Kvadrat Acoustics panels and to indicate our capabilities of doing custom-made options.’
The set up is on show all through 2024 on the Buffalo AKG Artwork Museum
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