Jonty Hurwitz
'Anamorphic illustrations that reveal themselves in the presence of a cylindrical mirror, go back to the 1500s. Jonty Hurwitz takes a similar idea but plays it out in sculpture form, creating distorted objects that reveal a clear image only in front of that shiny cylinder.
Hurwitz has a keen interest in both art and physics, and his pieces tend to be created as carefully constructed optical illusions, pieces that appear complete from one perspective, but are only fully appreciated when you see them from the "wrong" perspective. To design these sculptures, he starts with a 3D image of what the sculpture should look like in the mirror, and uses a combination of mathematical algorithms and hand manipulation to distort the sculpture in just the right way.' - i09
'Artist Jonty Hurwitz begins with over a billion computer calculations before spending months considering how to materialise his warped ideas using perspex, steel, resin, or copper.'
Artist quotation:
For the anamorphic pieces its an algorithmic thing, distorting the original sculptures in 3D space using 2πr or πr3 (cubed). Much of it is mathematical, relying on processing power. There is also a lot of hand manipulation to make it all work properly too as spacial transformation have a subtle sweet spot which can only be found by eye. Generally I will 3D scan my subject in a lab and then work the model using Mathematica or a range of 3D software tools. I think the π factor is really important in these pieces. We all know about this irrational number but the anamorphic pieces really are a distortion of a “normal” sculpture onto an imaginary sphere with its centre at the heart of the cylinder.
Although arguable an impressive highly mathematical process, that creates an instant wow factor. After the initial jaw-drop, I find there to be a coldness and inhuman nature to the work, that which although ignites curiosity at first also feels without heart. This well may be, due to my own artistic preferences being more in the way of handcrafting. I do however, enjoy the use of distortion within the work, and will be looking more into that theme throughout my practise as a whole.
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