lila Villas Uluwatu Bali
Located on the dry savannah landscape of the Bukit Peninsula on the dramatic southern cliffs of the Indonesian island of Bali, Alila Villas Uluwatu, is designed to investigate the potential of the fusion of vernacular architecture with modernist design. The design combines the delights of traditional Balinese pavilion architecture and rural landscapes with modern dynamic treatment of space and form. The design is based from first principles around the pleasures inhabiting the particular site, rather than assembling stereotypical images of Bali or generic resorts.
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unbearable lightness
'unbearable lightness'
125 x 125 x 48 cm
in an edition of 6 + 2AP
image courtesy of carpenters workshop gallery
over the course of the fair, 40 000 worker bees were released into the case to complete
a wax honeycomb structure over the figure of a martyred christ rising out of the chaos,
his weight seeming to be upheld by the mass strength of the swarm. the figure within the vitrine
is made of a laser sintered framework in which the industrious bees created a honeycomb skin over
before filling each cell with the honey they produce. then bees worked to remove the honey
from the cells and return it to the beehive, cleaning the figure back to the wax cells they
originally created. tomáš made the honeycomb a red-orange color to symbolize the cross.
bees hard at work on the figure of the martyred christ
image courtesy of carpenters workshop gallery
libertiny engages us with his desire to manipulate and control a social wild-life entity
as the means to fulfilling the final product. here the bees, engaging in their repetitive natural process
while unknowingly creating the world's most recognized religious effigy. the closed cabinet
references the strict boundaries of society where the toil of everyday duty is masked by the hope
of eternal rest in an after-life promised by the believer. the bees are programmed to act for
their queen who puppet-rules for libertiny. the viewer is able to recognize this element of
manipulation of the bees while ignorant to the invisible constraints and measures imposed
on our own existence.
the honeycomb skin the bees created
image courtesy of carpenters workshop gallery
designer tomáš gabzdil libertiny
image courtesy of design miami / basel
image courtesy of carpenters workshop gallery
bees hard at work
image courtesy of carpenters workshop gallery
