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“The Strawberry Tree” (2024), forged bronze, blown glass, glass beads, Pele de Tigre marble, and light-weight, 171 x 188 x 176 inches. Photograph by Kevin Todora. All photos courtesy of the Nasher Sculpture Heart, shared with permission
A weird botanical assortment sprouts from the grounds at Nasher Sculpture Heart in Dallas. A tall, spindly specimen with a droopy head illuminates a walkway, whereas a sprawling tree lush with strawberries looms massive in a gallery. Patinaed in an otherworldly blue, these forged bronze sculptures look like they’ve emerged from a radioactive swamp or been transplanted from a distant planet.
On view within the exhibition Moonlight, the unusual organisms are the most recent undertaking from fraternal twins Nikolai and Simon Haas, who work collectively because the Haas Brothers. The pair conjure a magical nighttime glow with formidable sculptures that double as lamps. Outfitted with lights, every work approaches performance with a fantastical bent, preferring to radiate from suspended glass strawberries or a singular, cycloptic bulb within the case of “Emergent Zoidberg.”
A tribute to a personality from Matt Groening’s animated sequence Futurama, the plump determine twists round and cranks its neck sideways, its flailing mouth frills encircling the sunshine. Different childhood favorites determine into the exhibition, too, together with the Picket Wiggly Snake with its signature writhing physique. The brothers emulated such acquainted types via 3D laptop graphics software program, in the end reworking a easy streetlamp right into a whimsical character.
In the event you’re in Dallas, see Moonlight via August 25. In any other case, discover extra from the artists on Instagram.
Element of “The Strawberry Tree” (2024), forged bronze, blown glass, glass beads, Pele de Tigre marble, and light-weight, 171 x 188 x 176 inches. Photograph by Kevin Todora
“Emergent Zoidberg” (2024), forged bronze and light-weight, 96 x 62 5/8 x 62 1/8 inches. Photograph by Kevin Todora
Element of “Emergent Zoidberg” (2024), forged bronze and light-weight, 96 x 62 5/8 x 62 1/8 inches. Photograph by Kevin Todora
Element of “The Strawberry Tree” (2024), forged bronze, blown glass, glass beads, Pele de Tigre marble, and light-weight, 171 x 188 x 176 inches. Photograph by Simon Haas
Element of “The Strawberry Tree” (2024), forged bronze, blown glass, glass beads, Pele de Tigre marble, and light-weight, 171 x 188 x 176 inches. Photograph by Simon Haas
“A Mild within the Streets and a Freak within the Sheets” (2023), forged bronze and light-weight, 193 x 35 5/8 x 52 1/4 inches. Photograph by Kevin Todora
#Haas Brothers
#lights
#vegetation
#sculpture
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