The weight of millions of years flowing

How to help a sculpture to float through the millions of years that compose it? Beine is a sculpture by the Czech artist Eva Kmentová. It looks heavy and light at the same time as it is made of cement but it presents unfinished legs. Among the main materials of cement are limestone, clay and iron, and each of these elements took millions of years to be generated by geological processes. The sculpture contains all the weight of time of its materials, and perhaps more than looking for the missing parts, as an incomplete figure, it would like to dematerialize until it floats.

We used photogrammetry to make a 3D model of Beine, a sculpture that is part of the Kunstmuseum Bochum collection, Germany. Then we unfold it into four two-dimensional images. Each image is a flag that flies on the facade of the museum.

Here, unfolding form is an act of unfolding time. It is an invitation to remember the geological time contained in the materials used in the arts. It is also an invitation to share the perception with which Eva describes the beginning of her artistic practice, as “a great childish joy, or more probably the feeling of something beautiful to come”.

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