Category: chair art

Light Graffiti Chair Photo by Michael Bosanko

Light Graffiti Chair Photo by Michael Bosanko

Light Graffiti Chair Photo by Michael Bosanko

What is Light Graffiti? Light graffiti (also called light writing, light painting, and light art) is simply long exposure photography using lights to create objects.

According to Wikipedia:

Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. Light Painting Photography can be traced back to the year 1914 when Frank Gilbreth, along with his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth, used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the motion of manufacturing and clerical workers. Man Ray, in his 1935 series “Space Writing,” was the first known art photographer to use the technique and Barbara Morgan began making light paintings in 1940.

DRM Chair by Thibault Brevet

DRM Chair by Thibault Brevet

The Digital Rights Management chair demonstrates what is happening in modern digital times if you buy media. You’re only entitled to use what you have bought in limited ways. Too much use destroys what you have bought. As Thibault says:

The DRM Chair has only a limited number of use before it self-destructs. The number of use was set to 8, so everyone could sit down and enjoy a single time the chair.

A small sensor detects when someone sits and decrements a counter. Every time someone sits up, the chair knocks a number of time to signal how many uses are left. When reaching zero, the self-destruct system is turned on and the structural joints of the chair are melted.

Elephant Chair with Lamp by Alexander Calder

Elephant Chair with Lamp by Alexander Calder

Elephant Chair with Lamp by Alexander Calder

I would not have expected Alexander Calder being involved with chairs. I found his Elephant Chair with lamp at MoMA‘s site. It dates back from 1928. Moreover I would not have known Alexander Calder without a nice exhibition about him in the Gemeentemuseum of The Hague last year.

Photo credit to Postcardwall

Chairs and Body Painting

Chairs and Body Painting RedPhotography: Vincent Basler

Body Art and Chairs 1Photo Vincent Klijn

Chairs and Body Painting

What better way to start a day than with these two very nice ladies whose bodies are painted fully matching the covers of the chairs they are seated on?

Two other Dutch ladies, Iepke Seebregts and Saskia Hoek have created Gekleurd Naakt (i.e. Colored or Painted Nudes) which tells a story about their body painting travels all over the world resulting in a very nice series of culturally connected body painting photography.

You can find a selection of the body art on Pinterest

They have made a Body Painting Book as well. The second photo is the cover of the book. That makes the post apt for our chairvertizing category.

I also have to think about Natura Morta by Alexa Meade

Thonet Chair – Discoball

daszweitefeld:

„Thonet Night Fever“

2012

An Object designed out of
two wooden 19th century Thonet Chairs
and a mirrored Disco Globe.
Art goes somewhere. Maybe into objects.

Artwork, Image©Carsten Reinhold Schulz
Düsseldorf 4.2012 More information:

http://www.daszweitefeld.de

http://www.cargocollective.com/daszweitefeld