美国·布鲁克林植物园的“风籽”装置

诺曼·穆尼（Norman Mooney）很高兴于2022年11月16日至2023年1月8日在布鲁克林植物园（Brooklyn Botanic Garden）展示他的新装置“风籽”。

Norman Mooney is pleased to unveil his new installation, Windseeds, at Brooklyn Botanic Garden from 16 November 2022 to 8 January 2023.

介绍 Introduction

Mooney为布鲁克林植物园设计的三座“风籽”雕塑，分别高12英尺、10英尺和8英尺，它们都拥有相同的几何结构。每一个风籽都有80个角状的尖刺从一个凸多面体上突出，进一步定义了穆尼在布鲁克林植物园自然城市环境中的标志性星光爆炸的形象。

The three Windseed sculptures commissioned for the Brooklyn Botanic gardens stan-ing 12ft, 10ft and 8ft tall respectively all emanate from the same geometric structures.Windseeds, each work with 80 angular spikes jutting out from a convex polyhedron further defines Mooney’s signature starburst within the context of the natural urban environment of Brooklyn Botanic Garden.    

概念 Concept

艺术家从自然和科学中收集种子的形状和表面将“风籽”实体化。“风籽”源自穆尼早期的素描之一《烟雾》，他用点线的构图方法赋予了其以实体的形式，反映了穆尼对自然元素的研究。附着在核心结构上的尖刺将纸上的群集模式转化为三维实体，模糊了崇高的人造物体和自然事物之间的界限。这座雕塑是一个银色的蒲公英形状的金属块，用来庆祝受自然启发而重新设计的人造物体。

Windseeds substantialize shapes and surfaces the artist gleans from nature and science. Derived from 'Smoke,' one of Mooney’s early sketches, Windseeds give volume and mass to a line-and-dot composition which reflects Mooney’s studies of natural elements. The spikes attached to a core structure transform clustering patterns on paper into a three-dimensional entity, blurring the lines between sublime artificial objects and natural things. A silver dandelion-shaped metal mass, the sculpture celebrates repurposed man-made objects inspired by nature.

艺术家陈述 Artist Statement

穆尼（Mooney）创作的作品兼具现实主义和形而上学主义，他表示他的雕塑“将我们的个人意识与自然世界中发现的快节奏和模式联系起来，并为我们在周围更大的宇宙群体中的所处的位置创造了环境。”风籽雕塑具有足够大的规模和统一性的美学，为人们提供了一个可行走的空间，从而唤起我们对周围事物的空间体验。

Mooney, who makes works that are at once physical and metaphysical, says his sculptures “connect our personal sense of self with the larger rhythms and patterns found in the natural world, and give context to our place within the greater universal mass that surrounds us.” With a notable scale and rather uniform aesthetics, Windseeds creates a space for people to walk in and around, thus calling upon our spatial experience with the matter around us.

关于Mooney About Mooney

穆尼最著名的作品是他在城市和景观环境中的大型户外装置，这些装置激发了“自然的元素和周期性协同作用”。他制作雕塑、室内和室外装置、绘画和纸上作品。诺曼的创作过程是靠直觉而不是同理心，遵循了量子连通性的视觉理论。借助微观和宏观宇宙中的元素，穆尼通过艺术探索了我们在物理和非物理空间中的尺度、形式和模式。他的作品通过数学和计算机科学的手段，从自然界中提取合成了生物动力系统，以构造出坚固、厚实的几何形状。

Mooney is best known for his large-scale outdoor installations set in both urban and botanical environments that animate the “elemental and cyclical synergies of nature.” He makes sculptures, interior and exterior installations, drawings, and works on paper. Norman’s prour sense of scale, form, and pattern within physical and non-physical spaces. Hiocess is intuitive more than empathetic, following a visual theory of quantum connectivity. With elements found in micro and macro universes, Mooney makes art to probe into s works synthesize biodynamic systems from nature to configure sturdy, chunky geometric forms via means of math and mechanical science.