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This stunning table combines outstanding architecture, intricate art, and simple technology to create an. You can view Shaprio’s other artworks, including his projects that utilize computerized motion control, on his website.ĭo stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. Meet Sisyphus, the first kinetic art table. My goal with this Kickstarter is to get Sisyphus into people’s homes for them to enjoy as both furniture and art, but also, to inspire a community of composers to write ‘music’ for it.” In Shapiro’s art, Sisyphus is a kinetic sculpture that rolls a ball through sand, forever creating and erasing beautiful patterns. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned to roll a boulder up a mountain for all eternity. “As a musical instrument plays songs, Sisyphus plays paths. The Sisyphus table is the first of its kind, a museum-quality kinetic art sculpture for your home and office. It will have at least 25 built-in sand patterns that you can. “Over time I have come to view Sisyphus as more than a kinetic art piece: it is an instrument,” said Shapiro. If you love artist Bruce Shapiro’s magnetic sand art, you’ll be glad to know that you can soon have one in your house as a table, and in a variety of wood veneer or hardwoods. Desiring the works to also live in individual homes, he has created a Kickstarter to begin production on three different types of smaller, domestic tables: an end table, three-foot metal coffee table, and a four-foot hardwood coffee table.
Shapiro has been producing the Sisyphus sculptures for almost 20 years, and has permanent installations of his works in Switzerland, Germany, and Australia. Shapiro named this kinetic art project Sisyphus, an appropriate title as the metal balls that move through each table’s sand seems to be forever rolling and creating patterns, much like the Greek myth. Designed by Bruce Shapiro, the Sisyphus has raised almost 2 million dollars on Kickstarter.
This stunning table combines outstanding architecture, intricate art, and simple technology to create an ever-changing masterpiece in your home. Bruce Shapiro ( previously) has transformed the tools that create sculpture into the sculpture itself, using CNC machines to produce tables that trace beautiful patterns in thin layers of sand. Meet Sisyphus, the first kinetic art table.
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