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Cabinet by Dimitri Vangrunderbeek
Artist Dimitri Vangrunderbeek of Brussels has collaborated with D&ALab to produce a cabinet scattered with folded out people, exhibited at Object Rotterdam earlier this month.
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The cabinet is made from thin sheets of steel which have the silhouettes of men cutout and folded back, casting miniature-people shadows over the top and front surfaces.
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Here is some more information from D&ALab:
Dimitri Vangrunderbeek conceived a cupboard in collaboration with D&ALab. The starting idea comes from his moving figurines, cut out of paper, which are folded on the top to the piece of furniture’s feet (1991).
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The nice pattern, based on twelve figurines taken from a Muybridge’s photographs sequence, gives us an animated image thanks to the figurines which are set out in various directions and which create a moving effect using their shaping and the variation of their shadow.
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To produce this work, D&ALab provided the thin steel sheets and brought a special technique in order to cut down these little shapes from the thin steel sleeves.