These elegant Sculptures Measure Atmospheric conditions

based in Oslo, Kneip occupies the fertile middle ground between art and design. Like artists, Stian Korntved Ruud and Jørgen Platou Willumsen discover and interpret cultural ideas, but they steadily achieve this throughout the lens of performance.

as an instance, lamps made out of ocean plastic or carving a new spoon every day. In Weathered, the duo fabricated objects that discover atmospheric conditions.

“Nature is a giant supply of suggestion to us, and we thought it could be fascinating to make sculptures that explore the forces of nature in an instantaneous and oblique approach,” Kneip says.

Measurements for seismic process, humidity, and wind are frequently left to high-tech gadgets (and even then, Meteorologists still give you the option to screw up forecasts). but Ruud and Willumsen are desirous about outdated-school instruments, riffing on more antiquated applied sciences whereas constructing their sculptures.

“We used supplies that you just in finding in outdated measuring gear like oak, brass and copper,” Kneip says. “We wished the metals to look and feel weathered and spent a variety of time exploring completely different how one can patina the different metals, kickstarting a process that happens over time in nature.”

for example, oxidized copper is used in Breeze, a instrument for measuring wind. You no longer simplest see how nature bodily strikes the piece, but the patina reveals how its environment has affected it—a more delicate process. (the various studio’s experiments in chemical oxidation are seen in the undertaking Pat.vol 1). Polished copper is used on Seismoscope, a sculpture that visualizes seismic process via etching. to track moisture within the air, Kneip tied horsehair between two carbon-fiber rods. relying on humidity, the horsehair expands or contracts.

Kneip will showcase the sculptures at one hundred% Norway, which takes location all the way through the London Design festival.