LATEST: Hurwitz selected by Guinness Book of Records. The worlds smallest animal sculpture...
The smallest sculpture modelled on a real person was "Trust" by Jonty Hurwitz (UK), a 3D-printed piece depicting a nude and measuring 80 by 100 by 30 microns. The statue, inspired by the artist's first love 27 years after they met, was verified on 13 February 2015 at the Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility in Germany.
‘CNN Ones to Watch’ captures Hurwitz’s figure of a woman who can only be viewed through a microscope, as she dances delicately on a single strand of human hair. His quest to merge art and science is limitless – he makes vast bronze sculptures using algorithms and mirrors which play with perspectives.
The programme follows Hurwitz in the laboratory at one of the world’s leading universities in engineering and natural sciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, as the alchemist turned artist crafts a new work.
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Jonty Hurwitz's sculpture Rejuvenation which went viral on the internet in 2013 as a result of a posting on Colossal has just come in at number 16 in Colossal's top 20 of 2013.
See the wonderful Colossal Top 20 here.
<Science Boys> Magazine, South Korea's largest scientific publication with a teenage readership of 15 million ran their feature on my anamorphic work in the December 2014 edition. Wish I knew what they said!
It has been an insane few days since the launch of the nano sculptures. They have spread far and wide on the internet like wildfire. In the 3 days since launch, the have appeared on news sites and blogs in every corner of the world. Traffic has gone through the roof. On the basis of a 0.5% click-through rate to my site across all articles, blogs, social media etc.
What a wonderful online exhibition. I love the internet :-)
Huffington Post
CNET
Yahoo
Daily Mail
Beautiful Decay
Supersonic Art
Designboom
Ufunk
Laboiteverte
Curiator
NyTeknik
Nanopress
Nerdcore
Distractify
This poem was written
On a pinhead
In nanometre
In fonts a miniscule high
The tiniest expression
Of Amazement
Art as vast and brief
As an Imagination
Of Critics, clustered
Around a microscope
Jostling to make
Gargantuan opinions
The world holds its breath
As a priceless collection
Vanishes. Inhaled.
Caught in the hair
Of a sneering nostril
The Mona Lisa smiles
Imperceptibly amused
That we always found her
Smaller than we imagined
As if she knows there is space
In the thickness of
A scant layer of paint
To shape a MicroCosmos
Of smirks and scowls
Kinetica is always a mind-expanding taste of where the art world is heading. To celebrate that awesomeness I've put together some panoramic shots of the 2014 show in London.
Thanks again to Dianne Harris and Tony Langford!
Episode 1 of a series I'm working on with Vera Productions looking at how art can be valued in the new era of big data. In 2014 the art market was estimated by Bloombert to be $66 billion. What are the statistically significant variables in assessing the value of an artist's work? Please like and share this work with your artist buddies - your support will create the momentum needed to further this study!
I want to say a deep thank you to Dianne Harris and Tony Langford for yet another inspiring Kinetica Art Fair in 2014. I found myself deeply inspired to meet the ocean of inspiring artists you curated for the show. How refreshing to be engaged in with your world of scientific art. I loved every minute of it and was proud to be in your curated museum.
Runner up: Ashfin Nagouni
Winner: Miroslav Yotov
Go Figurative Gallery is delighted to announce a group show
Artists And The Internet
Inspired by the largest ever Facebook competition for artists
Featuring winning artists from the Art of Jonty Hurwitz competition
This unique exhibition demonstrates how artists are using the internet for inspiration, collaboration and marketing purposes.
Artists and The Internet harnesses the power of the process of democratisation of art appreciation, and places the freedom of speech and power of the “like” button well and truly into the hands of the masses. 329 artists entered the competition, nearly 36,000 links shared, and almost 5500 votes were cast. Leading anamorphic sculptor and thinker Jonty Hurwitz gives us his unique insight.
Several key pieces of The art of Jonty Hurwitz will be exhibited for the first time in London, alongside competition winners, most notablyMiroslav Yotov, from Bulgaria, and second prize-winner, Afshin (Ash) Naghouni
"There are only two things you can know for sure about the new exhibition at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. It is called 'Illusion: Nothing is as it Seems' and it will mess with your head." - San Diego Union-Tribune
Here's some selected press:
Fox, CBS, San Diego Union Tribune, The Hollywood Times, San Diego Visual Arts, Locale Magazine, San Diego Union Tribune, Del Sol Magazine, Entertainment Designer, 92131 Magazine, 92024 Magazine. Thanks to Del Sol Magazine for the awesome image on this post.
On my journey for inspiration I curate artworks from *amazing* emerging talent around the world and share them with 170k art-lovers here Art of Jonty Hurwitz on facebook.
Cami Fisher, 9, of Point Loma looks into The Hurwitz Singularity sculpture at the new Illusions exhibit at the Reuben. H. Fleet Science Centre in San Diego.
It may be a tad hard to see what is going on here, but look closely. Artist/scientist Jonty Hurwitz creates what appear to be ordinary abstract sculptures, but when viewed in a cylinder, reflective surface, the sculpture takes on the appearance of a figurative shape. Hurwtiz won the 2009 Noble Sculpture Prize.
Hurwitz, who is currently the Savoy's artist in residence has created the latest in his Generation Pi series of anamorphic sculptures, which were launched at the Kinetic art fair in February 2013. Hurwitz explores the boundary between illusion and reality, which he describes as increasingly blurred. The works are contemporary trompe l’oeil; at first glance appearing abstract, but in mirrored reflections, representational. The series is a study on the physics of how the human brain perceives space based on Einstein’s theory E=mc2 (energy, mass and the speed of light). Each sculpture in the series is an object that could only be created by the technology of today, as over 1 billion mathematical calculations and algorithms are used in its creation.
His latest work, ‘The 14th Guest’ is inspired by the notorious story of a dinner for fourteen hosted by South African diamond magnate Woolf Joel at The Savoy in 1898. When one guest pulled out at the last minute, another superstitious guest predicted that death would come to the first person to leave the unlucky table of thirteen. Joel himself was the first to leave and a few weeks later was shot dead in Johannesburg. Subsequently a member of the Savoy staff was offered to join tables of thirteen to ward off superstition. However, in 1927 British designer Basil Ionides came up with the idea of creating a two foot high sculpture of a black cat called Kaspar who would join parties of thirteen with a place set for him and a napkin placed around his neck. Winston Churchill was so taken by Kaspar that he insisted the cat join him at every gathering at The Savoy, regardless of numbers. Hurwitz work successfully continues this modern fable by creating an anamorphic sculpture of Kaspar which is the centrepiece of this stylish new restaurant.
“Source: Artlyst”
Pastry Live is proud to announce Team Maura Metheny and Dan Forgey of Norman Love Confections as this year's National Showpiece Champions. Team Metheny's chocolate showpiece, titled "The Hurwitz Hypnotist," was favored for its overall visual aesthetic and the originality of its design. Drawing their inspiration from the sculptures of Jonty Hurwitz and renowned illusionists Harry Houdini and David Copperfield, the duo set out to captivate viewers, engaging them through the illusion created by their design. Staying true to their muses, they transformed chocolate into a show based on perspective, with various aspects appearing, separating and coming together based on the angle it was viewed from.
Along with earning the title and a cash prize of $5,000, the team was also awarded Best Chocolate Showpiece for their innovative design portraying this year's theme of "The Art of Illusion."
Seven teams of two chefs competed on August 27th over the course of seven hours, constructing showpieces utilizing a unique trio of pedestal bases, encouraging an entirely new range of showpiece design.
Join the Dublin Science Gallery as we say the magic word and pull back the curtain to reveal ILLUSION, our brand new brain-melting, mind-bending exhibition exploring the neuroscience of magic. Exploring sensory deception, ILLUSION investigates how perception underpins everything we see, feel, think and do.
Curated by author of best selling books like Quirkology and 59 Seconds and Britain's only Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology Richard Wiseman, ILLUSION promises to be a perception-shattering insight into the human mind, combining magic with psychology, optical illusions with scientific reasoning, and confusion with clarity.
Featuring: "Hurwitz Singularity" by sculptor Jonty Hurwitz
Dates: 11.07.13 – 29.09.13
Sally Perry from Go Figurative chooses six of the best portrait artist for the publication Art of England.
Jonty Hurwitz, the entrepreneur and artist, is interested in the relative powers of computers and the human brain. He expresses his interest through Generation Pi, a series of mathematically generated sculptures.
A group of leading thinkers in art and science come together at the Google headquarters in London to talk about the influence of art and culture in London.
The Panelists
Lord Browne of Madingley, Tate Chairman and former BP Cheif
Munira Mirza, Deputy mayor for education and culture
Lily Cole, Actress and philanthropic entrepreneur
Rohan Silva, Government technology adviser
Jonty Hurwitz, Wonga co-founder and sculptor
Leonie Frieda, Historian and former model
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