I have always been curious about the mysterious connection between time, space, and reality and there’s no other artist who explores it in such a creative and always intriguing way as Fabian Oefner from Switzerland.From capturing life moments that are invisible to the human eye, to slicing everyday objects and putting them into the resin ‘pages’, or showing iconic classic sports cars exploding apart, the artist is constantly looking for new unique ways that would attain a deeper understanding of the world around us.More info:Fabian OefnerThis post may includeaffiliate links.
I have always been curious about the mysterious connection between time, space, and reality and there’s no other artist who explores it in such a creative and always intriguing way as Fabian Oefner from Switzerland.From capturing life moments that are invisible to the human eye, to slicing everyday objects and putting them into the resin ‘pages’, or showing iconic classic sports cars exploding apart, the artist is constantly looking for new unique ways that would attain a deeper understanding of the world around us.More info:Fabian Oefner
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With theKintsugi Potsseries, the artist is exploring the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery and applying it to non-ceramic objects.
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Disintegrating Rivamarks Fabian Oefner’s latest addition to his renownedDisintegratingSeries. Oefner and his team photographed over 1800 individual components of an original Riva Aquarama at Bellini Nautica, situated along the serene shores of Italy’s Lago d’Iseo. This particular image depicts the split second when a 1963 Riva Aquarama, racing across crystal-clear blue waters, disintegrates at full throttle.
Fabian Oefner was born in Aarau, Switzerland in 1984. He studied painting, photography, typography and art history at the Basel University of Art and got a Bachelor of Arts in Product Design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Northwestern Switzerland.Back in 2013, he founded Studio Oefner and collaborating with such scientists as theoretical physicist Brian Greene, institutes like CERN and the Edgerton Center at MIT, Fabian created mesmerizing photographic series like “Black Hole”, “Big Bang” and “Infinite Moment in Time” - all of them helping us better understand the concept of time.Always trying to find the collision between emotional and rational approaches to one’s surroundings, the artist has gotten attention from The Washington Post, National Geographic, Der Spiegel, Stern, Wired, BBC, and many others. In 2013, Fabian also gave aTED talkabout his art and the process behind it.
Fabian Oefner was born in Aarau, Switzerland in 1984. He studied painting, photography, typography and art history at the Basel University of Art and got a Bachelor of Arts in Product Design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Northwestern Switzerland.
Back in 2013, he founded Studio Oefner and collaborating with such scientists as theoretical physicist Brian Greene, institutes like CERN and the Edgerton Center at MIT, Fabian created mesmerizing photographic series like “Black Hole”, “Big Bang” and “Infinite Moment in Time” - all of them helping us better understand the concept of time.
Always trying to find the collision between emotional and rational approaches to one’s surroundings, the artist has gotten attention from The Washington Post, National Geographic, Der Spiegel, Stern, Wired, BBC, and many others. In 2013, Fabian also gave aTED talkabout his art and the process behind it.
The iconic Bialetti coffee maker was sliced into 11 sheets and bound into a book. It was part of a series that explored the transformation of three-dimensional objects into two dimensions.Though it only has 11 pages, it weighs more than 25 pounds and in case you were wondering, the Bialetti Moka Pot had actual coffee in it.
The Heisenberg Carsculpture is part of theHeisenberg Series, a collection of objects that examines the relationship between viewer and sculpture. The Countach was encapsulated in resin and sliced into small strips. These were then rearranged in a way that transforms the car into a seemingly moving object.
A shape-shifting sculpture, which becomes more abstract the longer you play with it.
Studio Oefner is a very special place where Fabian harmoniously bringsartandsciencetogether. Indoor tornados to study the motion of air, cutting through a Leica camera on an archaic band saw, or disassembling a real Lamborghini Aventador, bringing a hyperrealistic moment into existence that never was there, are only a few examples of extraordinary experiments made in his huge playground.
CutUpis an eclectic series of technical objects which were sliced, rearranged and distorted into a new form and then encapsulated in resin. In this series, the tool was transformed into a piece of art, revealing the hidden beauty underneath the surface.
Fabian cut the devices into small pieces and removed most of them before embedding all of them into resin. The remaining fragments were arranged in their original position within the object, so that the overall shape of the device would remain intact.
These series referred to an incomplete sentence that could be interpreted in so many different ways.
A can of Campbell’s Soup was sliced into 12 perfect cubes, which created a sculpture with 2.98 million different combinations!
The Escape Velocityseries is Photoshop for the real world. The artist translated digital tools like slicing or clipping into analog technologies using a band saw and a belt sander.
The other, no less stunning project was calledSpatial Books: a collection of iconic objects embedded in resin and turned into impressive sculptural books.
In one of them, The Bialetti Book, the artist filled a Bialetti Moka espresso pot with actual coffee and embedded it all in resin.
“As you browse through the pages, you get a completely different look on these familiar objects. The result is an intensified sense of space, dimensions, materiality, and time,” he added.
One of his most recent works is calledEscape Velocitywhere Fabian cuts everyday items such as a saxophone, computer, or sneaker in a way that makes them appear as if they are somehow magically pushed through the wall.
“The methods of my art are like Photoshop for the real world. I am reversing the process, translating digital tools like slicing or clipping into analog techniques of work,” Fabian shared.
Asked about how Fabian started his artistic career, he said in an interview withBored Pandathat it all started early on in his childhood.“I would crush toy cars in a vice to see how they come apart, build telescopes to observe thenight sky, experiment with sound waves traveling through water,” Fabian recalled his memories.“I was always very curious about my surroundings. Which led to me becoming an artist. Because I realized that through art I can explore all these different interests of mine,” he added.
Asked about how Fabian started his artistic career, he said in an interview withBored Pandathat it all started early on in his childhood.
“I would crush toy cars in a vice to see how they come apart, build telescopes to observe thenight sky, experiment with sound waves traveling through water,” Fabian recalled his memories.
“I was always very curious about my surroundings. Which led to me becoming an artist. Because I realized that through art I can explore all these different interests of mine,” he added.
Experimenting with infinity.
The artist mentioned that one of the most challenging projects he’s currently working on is building an experiment to recreate the northern lights oraurora.“I am following the plans of a Norwegian scientist, Kristian Birkeland, who did a lot of research to figure out why northern lights exist. He built a little chamber in which he could recreate the northern lights,” he explained. “We are currently in the process of rebuilding that chamber at the studio,” he added.Fabian also added that he is currently experimenting with a new series that takes painting into the 3rd dimension, and you can see a little preview of this below.
The artist mentioned that one of the most challenging projects he’s currently working on is building an experiment to recreate the northern lights oraurora.
“I am following the plans of a Norwegian scientist, Kristian Birkeland, who did a lot of research to figure out why northern lights exist. He built a little chamber in which he could recreate the northern lights,” he explained. “We are currently in the process of rebuilding that chamber at the studio,” he added.
Fabian also added that he is currently experimenting with a new series that takes painting into the 3rd dimension, and you can see a little preview of this below.
This was the first Disintegrating photograph Fabian ever did - the 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé.
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With his unique talent of merging scientific concepts with artistic expression, Fabian invites us to embrace the tiniest moments and the magic that happens around each and every one of us every day.
Detail ofDisintegrating X: The cylinder head with the pistons, valves and camshafts. Can you see the production date of this particular engine?
Time Capsule II- Rosso Corsa (2020) Resin, Fiberglass, Rubber.
In the field of quantum mechanics, there is a law which says that we cannot measure the position and the velocity of a particle at the same time. The more accurately we know one of these parameters, the less accurately we know the other.When you look at the Heisenberg Objekt No. 03 from a distance, you can easily identify the object. However, if you start to get closer to observe its inner workings, the shape of the object starts to get distorted and vanishes completely. As an observer, you are never able to observe the object as a whole and its inner workings simultaneously. The more accurately you see one view, the less clearly you see the other.The sculpture is an artistic equivalent of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.⠀
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