However, with this being 15 years ago, we still had to manipulate the face to gain a more accurate likeness. Swan Björk – In our scanning session with the artist, she recreated a similar expression to the famous photos of her at the 2001 Academy Awards in Los Angeles. A thin, clear shell was then produced using the data, to adorn the clothes and music box resting on her lap. Vespertine Clear Björk – The whole body scan we captured had to be tweaked in order to get the perfect pose. There were three special mannequins that involved different techniques.ĭebut Miniature Björk – A third scale doll was digitally modelled and printed for displaying a miniature jumper and skirt replica. The heads would then be blended onto existing mannequin bodies. These were then CNC’d in clay and tweaked, before the moulding and casting process. The process began with a digital scan of the singer to provide us with base data that could be manipulated to suit the clients needs. in a couple of her albums liner notes and on the official logo for her MoMA exhibition. Klaus isnt the only MoMA front runner with a massive Björk crush. Her seven full-length albums, from 1993s 'Debut' to 2011s 'Biophilia,' will live alongside collaborations with other artists, fashion designers. instruments, objects, costumes, and performance.
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It’s important that this exhibition displays the wealth of the richness of her work.The exhibition draws from more than 20 years of the controversial artist’s projects and her eight full-length albums to chronicle her career through sound, film, visuals, instruments, objects, and costumes.Īsylum was chosen to provide a series of Björk mannequin heads and bodies, specifically modified for the various costumes and dresses that were to be displayed. This logo appeared on Bjrks eponymous debut album (1977). Björk Is Getting Her Own Massive Art Exhibition.
“She and her team are creative entrepreneurs and innovators. “Björk is more than just a musician,” Dibben says. Through visuals and sounds, the exhibition takes viewers through Björk’s career, beginning with the release of her solo album, Debut, in 1993 to her work in 2015 with a video and music installation, Black Lake, which was commissioned for the museum and part of her new album, Vulnicura. The exhibition goes through June 7, and along with music videos, it features album art, instruments, photography from concerts and costumes, including the infamous swan dress Björk wore to the 2001 Academy Awards. So shapes of songs are like crystals, arrangements multiply like viruses, chords are like strata in tectonic plates, rhythm like DNA replicates, arpeggios like lightning and so on…” Biophilia is also the first downloadable app to join MoMA’s permanent collection. Many people will be flooded with memories of listening to Björk’s amazing output from the ’90s. The most natural way for me was to compare it to elements in nature. Bjork, still from ‘Black Lake,’ commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, 2015. On Sunday, March 8, 2015, MoMA will open a retrospective of the Icelandic-born artist, focusing on not only her identity as a visual artist, but the power of her music. In a 2011 interview with the Atlantic, Björk says of her concept album, “I wanted to map out on a touchscreen how I experience musicology and then write with it. The latter was a major component of Biophilia, the first ever app-album, which allows listeners to contribute to the music experience by playing with interactive on-screen visuals. Through her many albums, Björk explores various aspects of technology- music technology, the challenges of keeping up with new technology, the feminization of technology and the relationship between music, nature and technology.
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