String Art Theory - Installation Art by Gabriel Dawe
Gabriel Dawe is a Mexican born artist whose unique site specific art highlights the architecture that it is tied into. His rainbows of delicate strings are perfectly fitted into white gallery spaces and glorious Villas full of gilt and high art on high ceilings.
In an interview on ArtSlant Gabriel Dawe explains spoke about his creations:
The Plexus series is an ongoing series of installations that explore on the implications of thread and fibers as loaded materials implicating the complicated construction of gender and identity not only in my native Mexico, but throughout the western world. These installations are related as well to the human need for shelter and man’s ultimate vulnerability. One thing fashion and architecture have in common is their function of protecting the individual. By taking the main component of clothing—sewing thread—and generating an architectural structure with it, scale and material are reversed to create a new construction that no longer shelters the material needs of the body, but instead creates something that is symbolic of the non- physical structures humanity needs to survive as a species. These new structures are ethereal and delicate thanks to the fine thread; yet, despite their insubstantial quality, the play of lines create a visual effect that affects the viewer’s perception, becoming a full sensorial experience. VIA
Gabriel Dawes wonderful creations grace museums and buildings worldwide. Thanks to Trendland!
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