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Julian Voss-Andreae: sculpture

protein | quantum | figure

Artist Statement

Gilded wood, 3” x 13” x 12” x (6 x 34 x 31 cm)

Steel and silk

2009
Steel and silk, 7” x 6” x 6” (18 x 15 x 15 cm)

Painted steel and gold thread, 18” x 19” x 6” (46 x 48 x 15 cm)

The Cellular Structure of Space-Time, 2009
Bronze, diameter 8” (20 cm)

Series of five objects; bronze, largest object 9” (23 cm) diameter

of the series “Collapsed Platonic Solids”, 2009
Bronze, height 6” (15 cm)

Series of three objects; painted steel, largest object length 17″ (43 cm)

Glass, cork, sealing wax, wood, and mixed media
12” x 15” x 6” (30 x 38 x 15 cm) and 7” x 15” x 2” (18 x 38 x 5 cm)

(Prayer Beads), 2009
Aluminum, stainless steel, and wooden beads, 4” x 6” x 8” (10 x 15 x 20 cm)

Steel chain and mixed media, 17” x 20” x 8” (43 x 51 x 20 cm)

Quantum Objects

“Quantum Objects” was an exhibition of about thirty quantum physics-inspired sculptures on display at the American Center for Physics (Washington, D.C.). “The term quantum object, although regularly used in physics, is really an oxymoron. An ‘object’ is something that lives completely in the paradigm of classical physics: It has an independent reality in itself, it behaves deterministically, and it has definite physical properties, such as occupying a well-defined volume in space and time.

For the ‘quantum object’ all those seemingly self-evident truths become false: Its reality is one that is relative to the observer, the principle of causality is violated, and other features of materiality such as clear boundaries in space and time, being objectively located or even possessing identity, do not pertain. […]” (from Julian Voss-Andreae: Quantum Sculpture: Art Inspired by the Deeper Nature of Reality, Leonardo 44 1 (2011) pdf)

Quantum Man (6'), 2011
Stainless steel, 75” x 32” x 15”
Location: Private Collection (Wenatchee, WA)

Bronze, 100” x 44” x 20” (2.50 x 1.10 x 0.50 m)
Location: Private Collection (Portland, OR)

Stainless steel, 126” x 55” x 25” (3.20 x 1.40 x 0.60 m)
Location: The Bravern (Bellevue, WA)

Stainless steel, 100” x 44” x 20” (2.50 x 1.10 x 0.50 m)
Location: Private Collection (Sydney, Australia)

Stainless steel, 100” x 44” x 20” (2.50 x 1.10 x 0.50 m)
Location: The Maryhilll Museum of Art (Goldendale, WA)

Stainless steel, 100” x 44” x 20” (2.50 x 1.10 x 0.50 m)
Location:Tantalus Vineyards (Kelowna, BC, Canada)

Stainless steel, 100” x 44” x 20” (2.50 x 1.10 x 0.50 m)
Location: Private Collection (Zürich, Switzerland)

Steel, 100” x 44” x 20” (2.50 x 1.10 x 0.50 m)
Location: City of Moses Lake, WA

Quantum Man

A human being seen as a quantum object.

Bronze, diameter 24“ (60 cm)
Location: Private Collection (Portland, OR)

Large Buckyball Around Trees
Steel and trees, diameter 30' (9 m)
Location: Private Collection (Portland, OR)

Buckyball

These sculptures are inspired by Julian Voss-Andreae's graduate research in physics at Anton Zeilinger's group in Vienna (Austria). The experiment explored the transition between Quantum Mechanics and the familiar world of classical physics and demonstrated the passage of single Carbon-60 molecules (Buckyballs) through more than one opening at once, thereby confirming matter behaves fundamentally as waves.

Art + Science

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Julian Voss-Andreae: sculpture

protein | quantum | figure

Collapsed Tetrahedron