3D scanning at KODE Art Museums of Bergen, April 2014.
The project’s point of departure is seven marble columns originating from The Old Summer Palace Yuanmingyuan outside Beijing, which are currently on display at Kode Art Museums of Bergen. They were originally donated by the collector Johan Munthe (1864–1935), a Norwegian general in the Chinese army and close friend of China’s then president Yuan Shikai. The seven columns are brought back this fall to Beijing, where they will return to their site of origin for the first time since the Anglo-French looting during The Second Opium War in 1860. Laric has 3D scanned these artifacts and made them available as downloadable files on the website yuanmingyuan3d.com, as well 3D printed versions for the exhibition at Entrée. Laric is working on issues relating to the perception of authenticity both historically and in contemporary visual culture. His projects are often available online and open for others to alter and share.
These are 3D scans of marble columns from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing. The 3D models can be downloaded and used without copyright restrictions.
Exhibition view. All photos by Bent René Synnevåg.
Exhibition view, 3D printed versions of the 7 marble columns.
An overview of texts in response to the exhibition:
Oliver Laric's Yuanmingyuan3d in Cura Check out current issue of Cura, to read more about Oliver Laric’s project Yuanmingyuan 3D.
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Norsk museumstidsskrift # 1 Tolkningsregimer, livsløp og et mulig moralsk liv - Om kinesiske søyler på Kode "De sju søylene som skal langtidsdeponeres på Sackler Museum i Beijing tilfører nye momenter til deres biografi. Deponiavtalen understreker samtidig vår tids behov for åpenhet og dialog i et stadig omskiftelig politisk landskap. Og Oliver Larics installasjonsprosjekt aktiverer nye tolkningsregimer. Søylene har nå selv kommet på sokkel. Kunstprosjektet yuanmingyuan3d.com peker framover og forbi søylenes posisjon som håndgripelige, fysiske gjenstander og viser fram deres liv som idé, som ikoner og som tankeobjekter i et virtuelt og uendelig sosialt univers." Av Jorunn Haakestad
Group show with Francis Alÿs, Alighiero Boetti, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Wade Guyton, Oliver Laric, Lee Mingwei, Sol LeWitt, Yoko Ono, Jon Rafman, Mariah Robertson, Siebren Versteeg and Xu Zhen.
Kunsthaus Hamburg ALL TOMORROW’S PAST Groupshow with Marwa Arsanios, Carsten Benger, Sharon Hayes, Kerstin Kartscher, Oliver Laric, Vincent Meessen, Otolith Group, Yorgos Sapountzis, Eske Schlüters, Maya Schweizer. Curated by Katja Schroeder.
