Balzac Petanque
Project
Balzac Petanque by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen is located at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. The sculpture is fabricated using FRP and post-applied automotive-grade polyurethane paint. FRP reusable molds were created by digitally scanning the artist's models, enlarging, and CNC milling foam patterns. The sculpture has a unique array of invisible connections made of stainless steel, springs, and FRP to allow for the complex assembly on-site without any visible means of anchoring to one another.
dETAILS
Location: High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Client Name: Private Client
Expertise: From artist rendering and models, design fabrication method, fabricate foam patterns from 3-D scan data, create reusable FRP molds, fabricate sculpture elements and design, engineer, and fabricate assembly system.
Partners:
Juri Komendant, Engineer
