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Nude in a Hammock in White Carrara marble by Antonio Frilli. How on earth does the physics work here with all that weight in the middle!
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Incredible art. Any time I see marble look like cloth, it blows my mind.
As to the physics, the amount of material holding up the hammock is likely much more significant than it appears. Not to say it isn't delicate, I'm sure much side to side movement would break it quite easily, but the vertical strength is probably significantly more than it seems, it's sort of like a bridge with a truck on it...
How do they move this between exhibitions? Put it in a box, cover it in plastic and fill it with plaster or PU foam?
Sort of. Put it in a crate, then put wooden batons across to support each section of the sculpture and stop it moving. Each wooden baton is covered in polyethylene foam. Depending on the material of the sculpture, it may be wrapped in plastic, tissue or fabric.
Once it's barred into the crate and cannot wobble about at all, it's sealed up, then moved about on a palette truck or hand-forklift.
Example of a sculpture half-packed:
This was very cool to learn about! Thank you for the picture as well!!
Carefully, I'm pretty sure.
I would imagine they would put something between the hammock and the floor to support the sculpture during transit. Kind of like expanding foam packs used to ship computers.
My brain always intuitively parses this shit as literal witchcraft. Like:
It's so impressive that it literally doesn't compute to me, and I have to remind myself that this is indeed stone.