The "Holography Collection" compiles works of various artform and techniques, documentation, and information to anticipate the premisse of the future and contribute to train new generation. Odile Meulien Ohlmann, a sociologist, started it in 1982 in Paris as she was making on a research on the new form of artistic expression guided by Me. Rene Huyghe, a art Historien, author of numerous books, and founder of the first chair of Psychology of art at the Sorbonne. Loaned 10 years to the Art Science and Technology Institute in Washington DC, the today Collection covers 40 years of the History of holographic art and media photonics applications. It includes Holograms of the earliest Russians Museums Replicas, a selection from International Artists showing variety of technique and artistic expression , up to the works produced by the latest digital holographic 4 dimensional process, called Synfograms.
Exhbited and curated for 10 years at the Museum of the Art, Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) in Washinton DC, it received in July 1986 the price for "The Best" of Washington DC by the Washingtonian Magazine. Compared to an exhibit organised by the Holography Museum of New York at the National Geographic, The Washignton Post wrote (1989) in its paper "Holograms: Duds and Gems" .."At ASTI, holograms all but jump off the walls giving a sense why artists are excited as scientists over this technology"...
Several high light exhibitions contributed to establish the reputation of artBridge team and its collection in Germany. "Let it flow", "Experience the Light" "From hologram to synfogram" "Experience Holography"a compact mobile exhibition especially designed to be presented in schools with various art form and optical material. Braunschweig represents also many researches conducted on the advancement of techniques where analogue is replaced by digital, and where images are generated by computer. To go further requires sometime to look back especially 100 years old 3D techniques, updated by the new technology to reach new visual accuracy. The new holography is a mixe up of many techniques together, the media photonics technique. It makes the media easier to reach and to teach to young people and designers from any computer desk. The new works acquired in the collection show new possible applications and suggest new creative process. It keeps its goal to motivate experiencing other learning process.
At the border of France and Germany, at the heart of Europe, a new era starts.
Graham Tunidine is a computer specialist. The combination of the 3D animation generated by computer, of "Mobius" inspired by Echer created a unique exploit in 1993 for the holographic community. This 4x5" hologram has been produced in one color and show a smooth animation on glass anf film.
The idea came from the designer who wanted to present a bath he designed especially for handicapped people. The interest of this multiplex hologram 10x18", made in 1992 on glass was to explain visually the necessary movement to come into the bath.
Jeffrey Robb has a long hitory of work with 3D and light media. From his first holographic works inspired by inspressionnists touch, he developped several process in lenticular, and recently in 2009, he created a new line of artworks combining body painting and 3D camera shooting which already reached artgalleries.
Peter said: "Used to the wild open space near the Niagara falls where I grew, the intimacy, colours and light of Cornwall fascinated me. It inspires me this series."
Peter Miller is a very sensitive artist who can easily be happy with the wonder of the nature and gadget/toy of children. This works is an invitation to dream calling for emotions, and freedom of movement. Tnis piece is one of a series of shadograms 30x40cm on glass.
Movements and colour separation for this experimental imagery between reality and virtual wolrd. 10 x 24cm reflection hologram, limited edition on glass.
In the mid eightie Hologram satrted to be mass produced on film. The industry and holographers were seeing a new market to grew, especially for object talking to children and young people. Nevertheless, even so the animation included in the works facinated, the market did not grew, at the countrary, the mass produced film destabilised the fragil and emergining market of the artworks.
This work is a typical expressionStarted in 1982 in Paris , loaned 10 years to the Art Science and Technology Institute in Washington DC , the today Collection covers 40 years of the History of holographic art and media photonics applications. It includes Holograms of the earliest Russians Museums Replicas, a selection from International Artists showing variety of technique and artistic expression, expressions , up to the works produced by the latest digital holographic 4 dimensional process, called Synfograms. The Collection also compiles an interesting amount of documentation, information, stories, photos of the pioneers of the photonic imaging.
artBridge owns a fantastic collection of holograms and artworks, to be curated upon request for:
the general public and children with pedagogic tools
industry and research institute with technical presentation
3D Specialists, architects, engineers, artists, media designers, with training in new creative process.
With our net of international contacts and documentary we can trace, explain, display, and identify works, artists and techniques for collectors and museums.
Rudie 'words: "I have made many abstract landscapes that explore different ways of using sand and create feeling of expansiveness while suggesting a brushstrokes floating in mid air with no connection to a surface. My hope is to reach subtler levels of perception, holding up mirrors for thoughts, reflecting the magic we live in".
Rudie Berkhout died in September 2008. He has been one of the rare artists to live several years just from the sale of his artworks. Internationally exhibited he started in Holland to work with the light on stage. A trip in New York let him meet Dan Schwatzer who introduced him to the media. Rudie was a perfectionist who used his intuition to capture the beauty of the instant in a methodical construction of a certain harmony. "Cairo Aspects" represents the mountain he was seeing from his house in New York state. It is a piece reflecting the main work of Rudie, a 30x40cm transmission hologram exploring space and colors transformation.
Hatano's words: "I have for quite some time now had a great interest in creating works that combines holographic image with other media. But the most important element of my work come from within, from the spiritual space within my frame work."
The Rock is a 50x50cm reflection hologram. It looks so realistic that it invites you to touch the grain of the rock, although here touching is just possible with the mind. It represents a faithful representation of the eastern philosophy where the outside meets the inside to such a point that the outside becomes the image of a dream.
artist' note: If I see two sides to my work, one is that where there is the illusion of materiality and you play off of that. You start working with contradiction where you have materials entering each other.. the other side of holography I find important which is the colour, the emotive aspects of colour."
Trained as a photographer, J. Kauffamn shows object and subject with the filter that offers him the techniques. If Picasso was making photography to explore the different facets of its subjets and then create his perception with painting, Kauffmann uses the same techniques to observes and create his works, leaving to the observer the choice of the interpretation. Rock II is the number one of a series on glass of Two colours reflection Hologram 30x40cm.
Russian Team, Russian work. Typical work of the series done to used holography for replicas of museum. In the late eighties, begining of the 90ies information was very informal, and not always sure. Nevertheless this work a dichromat on glass, 4x5" reflection hologram, comes from the replica of a sculpture from the Leningrad Museum. Interesting with this technique is the reality of the details it brings. It is said that in Russier, a travelling exhibition was done just with holograms, proposed as true replicas... and it really full the eyes of the visitors.
The "Scream is part of a series called Human in Hyperspace where bodies become fractal of
the Universe showing how differentiation can put objects in pieces, focusing
on functions disconnected from a whole. "The Scream" is a self portrait 30x40cm refelction hologram on glass, expressing the artists confronted to the multiple dimensions he perceive and cannot hold in his head nor in his hand. The screaam in is various version has been internationally exhibited and is part of several collections.
Dietmar Öhlmann works almost like a scientist, experimenting any possible medium to create his vision. A vision where each part can communicate and exchange with itself and with the whole universe in a continuum movement. Although the holographic medium served the visualisation and technical experiments of his quest, only the mind and its inner peace can capture at once the information of a whole existing beyond the realities shown by images of light. His latest works integrate the holographic process of the time-space continuum without using holograms and new digital media including Synfograms. He created this name to describe the synthetic four dimensional printing process By working on synfograms, he creates virtual imagery free from all physical constraint other than the mind.
In the atomick clock Rob Munday plays with our mind and the 4th dimension, the time. Rob has created many holograms, helps many artist in the production of their idea, and improved several techniques in the new area of digital imaging process for embossed holograms, where he owns several patents. 24x24cm reflection hologram on glass.
Unique and experimentale video on embossed material
