Intersections - Nguyen Dang Binh

Gil Bruvel
ARTIST STATEMENT
My masks represent my fascination with perception. I see the tension
or “ambivalence” between what I call “constraint and freedom,” that
the individual human perception of self and psyche can either limit
or liberate. We have the ability to make ourselves our own prisoners
— but we can also free ourselves as well. These masks seek to examine
the mutable nature of identity in order to understand the ways
in which individuals perceive and represent themselves to the world.
Nowadays, culture is not about the art so much as it is about what
it can represent socially.
CONTACT
Gil Bruvel
Bruvel Studios
PO Box 1767
Wimberley, Texas 78676 USA
Mask of Intent, Mask of Sleep, Mask of Whispers
11.5 inches x 6 inches x 6 inches
Stainless steel, 3D modeling and rapid-prototyping sculpture
bruvel@aol.com
www.bruvel.com/sculpture
TECHNICAl STATEMENT
For his 3D modeling, Gil Bruvel uses modo, Maya and Zbrush,
and for STl file manipulations, Magic X from Materialise. He typically
builds his sculptures from very simple polygonal meshes that he
turns into subdivision surfaces with modo. Once the modeling is
finished with modo, he does some detailing in ZBrush. When he
considers the sculpture finished, he converts the polygonal mesh
into an STl format, and then uses Magic X to fix the parts or cut
them into different parts if necessary to fit the building block of
his 310 Zcorp printer.
He also uses another rapid prototyping process from ProMetal,
printing his 3D models with an R2 Direct Metal machine. This
process is capable of producing components directly in metal
that would be otherwise impossible to produce by any other
means, examples are shown above. Bruvel considers this a revolutionary
process that is changing the paradigm of the creative
process.
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