Ricardas Blazukas » 2013

‘pyramid tiles’ – sculpture collection for sale

Ricardas — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:40:21 +0000

This is a collection of handmade minimalistic sculptural tiles with pyramids shifting out of the vanishing point creating a deceptive impression. The concept of the tiles is based on geometrical composition of squares, inspiration being Baroque architecture.

The ‘pink pyramid tile’ has recently been selected by Saatchi Art currator Bridget Carron to feature in a ‘Radical Geometry’ collection.

The sculptures are made of high quality plaster, coated in primer and acrylic paint. The frames are bespoke made to hold the sculptures.
The collection is limited to 60 sculptures.

The size of the sculpture itself is 39cm x 39cm x 4.5cm, whilst the framed size is 50cm x 50cm x 5cm.

These sculptures are available for sale. You can get in touch via contact form below if interested.

Clay – First Wheel Session

Ricardas — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:08:47 +0000

Here are some photos from my first go at throwing clay on a wheel in December 2013.

It proved to be a challenging process, but at the end of the day I think I had a nice set of hollow pieces.

The firing of these objects will be shown on the next post.

Ceramic Forms and Colour

Ricardas — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:58:10 +0000

These ceramic models are the outcome of my colour compositions of chance exercise. Each colour was selected by I Ching, assigning values of colour to each of the 64 hexagrams.

The square model is hollow with a tiny ball inside making a beautiful sound when wobbled.

All models were fired twice – initially underglazed and bisque fired to cone 04, and then glazed and fired to cone 04 as earthenware.

Alphabet Miniature Models

Ricardas — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:37:58 +0000

My miniature alphabet models, a set of 12, single cast with 3 colours of plaster.

Moulds made of three main parts, which were shuffled by chance using I Ching.

Initial graphic drawing of these can be found here.

Doodle

Ricardas — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:17:52 +0000

This doodle is an outcome of an interesting exercise we did in the studio at the beginning of the year. You can clearly see that one does not do a typical doodle…

More doodles of my coursemates can be found here.

The brief:

Imagine you are stuck in a very boring meeting, which goes on for a week. Do a doodle. On a really big piece of paper – A0. No Digital. Medium – Biro (any colour). Paper may be blank or not. The drawing should be very dense and completely amazing.

Graffiti Alphabet

Ricardas — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:03:57 +0000

Here are some examples of a spray painted version of the alphabet.

Post Installation Model

Ricardas — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:39:10 +0000

Since the full scale installation (previously posted) did not last very long due to its nature, I decided to make this small model representing the same qualities, such as escaping a conventional grid (random sizes of the blocks stacked together), chance factor of variety of paintings in its defragmented state and a sculptural way of representation of the alphabet.

Marrakech Sketches

Ricardas — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:16:32 +0000

Sketches of Marrakech, Morocco.

05-10 December 2013.

Installation / Time Lapse Video

Ricardas — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:03:53 +0000

I have done a number of projects on various scales during the last month. This one here is the biggest one of them – an installation.

Or watch in better quality on VIMEO

This might seem like just a graffiti / painting on a set of plinths, but there is more behind it. The idea I am fascinated about the most is – the provocation of students. This installation was done at university, on all plinths of our MArch Architecture studio a week before our interim crits.

Taking all the plinths might seem rude at first, but architecture is about behaviour change and interaction between a space and its users, which is what this installation did. The painting on the plinths gave them a sense of untouchability (or at least I hoped it will). I was curious what will happen with a crit day approaching. Will students start to take the plinths one by one? They belong to them as much as they belong to me.

I wanted to see a progressive defragmentation of this painting, but what I’ve discovered instead, not even 24hours after the installation was made – plinths composed randomly, looking somewhat similar to Picasso’s paintings. Brilliant – a number of coursemates decided to re-organize them.

I loved the idea of chance in this installation – stacking the plinths randomly and then painting a symbol on them left me wondering how will each plinth look like. The random sizes of plinths stacked together was also a way of escaping a typical grid. It also has an effective three-dimensional quality, due to lengths of plinths they can be spaced in a random way, again creating something completely different and completely by chance.

The crits went great too, as my tutor Sean Griffiths, Co-Founter of FAT said: “Ricardas, you have had the best presense during the crits today”, meaning that all students were presenting their models on plinths with a piece of my painted symbol.

I was hoping that after the crits I will collect them and stack them in a random way, but there was no need for that, as like I mentioned previously, it happened sooner than I expected thanks to my coursemates.

The painted symbol is from my own created alphabet, which you can check out here and download as a font here.

I have also made a small model of this installation, which will appear on the blog soon.

Above you will find a time-lapse video of the installation making process, and at the bottom a photo gallery of the installation, as well as a photo gallery of plinths being used in the studio by other students to display their work.

My I Ching T Shirt

Ricardas — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:39:06 +0000

I made myself an I Ching t-shirt for an interim crit that I had yesterday.

This year I’ve been working on a lot of stuff involving chance together with guys at DS15. I Ching is our core material that we base our studies on. Since the beginning of the year I loved the idea of assigning colour to hexagrams of I Ching. The hexagrams have a very strong graphic aesthetic and look brilliant on a tee. Making this for my crit was a great way to level up the presentation.

BUY?

I had some requests from people wanting to buy one like this, so I might get to it and make more soon. If you would love to invest in one, then give me a shout through a contact form below (inc. tee size) and I’ll keep you updated!