Mircea Cantor

Moloko Magazine is featuring Mircea Cantor today - and this should be a special post for us too to showcase his work.

Especially that one of the blog's contributor, Ferenc Csurgai was very (very) closely involved in the process of creating the huge Christmas presents as a collaborator. And yes...they are really huge. They are very actual at the end of the year in the festive season indeed.

Of course these are all made of concrete.

see more: http://www.mirceacantor.ro/see.htm

Anish Kapoor - Concrete Piping Machine

Anish Kapoor is a celebrity and there's no need to introduce him. He has several works exhibited around London and wins ever growing number of prizes each year.

However I didn't know that last September he had an exhibition at the Royal Academy.

He created a machine (well, it's a pipe, connected to a computer) that creates formed material. The result is this endless spaghetti (let's consider it a spaghetti for now) which covered the whole floor of the gallery.

Royal Academy went further than calling it spaghetti:
[...] "using a computer programme similar to those employed by architects, a technician translates them into instructions that guide the machine. The process is simple: liquid concrete is shovelled into a hopper, from where it travels along a plastic pipe to be extruded in long, intestinal coils or short, turd-like lengths that accumulate to make up different forms; so far there are pyramids, nests, boats, triangles, ovals, lattices, spirals, beds, cubes and cylinders. The texture of some is dry and crumbly, while others appear liquid; some are dark grey, others spotted with white blobs of the polystyrene added to lessen the weight."

Sources:
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-magazine/autumn-2009/features/
http://nialldebuitlear.com/blog/?p=623
http://barnmotskogen.blogspot.com/2009/11/anish-kapoor-royal-academy-of-arts_18.html 
http://www.anishkapoor.com/