Light and Shade Sculpture Garden
Module 2

School // Workshop // Age 12–18 // 2 hours // 3 lessons
Making // designing // presenting
Preliminary course // community // material // Josef Albers,
light // shade
can be combined with Module 4

Workshop Modul 2
Silke Wittig | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
YOU WILL NEED:

  • Aluminium wire
  • coloured foil
  • scissors
  • adhesive foil
  • wire cutter
  • selection of craft materials
  • projector
  • screen

INSTRUCTIONS

This module takes its inspiration from the studies on materials, light and shade in the Bauhaus preliminary course, and from the glass painting and window art of Josef Albers. Coloured sculptures are made using aluminium wire and foil. Their characteristics are investigated and they are arranged together in a setting of light and shade. The point is not to make a perfect sculpture, but to examine the effects of light and shade and explore how the individual objects can be presented collectively.

Step 1: Students use aluminium wire to create a stable sculptural form.

Step 2: This structure serves as the basis for imaginative coloured objects. The effects of projected light on the objects are investigated at intervals as they are created.

Step 3: Once all participants are ready, the objects are arranged together and lit by the projector to create a collective image. Colour and contours vary according to the location of the light source.

Step 4: Optional: The projected sculptures can be used to make a simple animated film, for example using a smartphone app (such as Stop Motion Studio, Lapse It, iMotion).

  • Licht & Schatten Silke Wittig | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • Licht & Schatten Silke Wittig | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • Licht & Schatten Silke Wittig | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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