Eric van Straaten – 3D Printed Sculptures

ERIC VAN STRAATEN – 3D PRINTED SCULPTURES

LATEST NEWS: New 3D-printed sculptures in London – From May 1 till the 24th, Eric van Straaten participates with three 3D printed sculptures in a grand exhibition at Sladmore Contemporary (32 Bruton Place, Mayfair, London W1J 6NW). The pieces featured will be ‘Humming‘, ‘Kawaii Doll‘ and ‘Venus‘.

PORTFOLIO

These are my ‘real life’ 3D-printed statuettes that are available for sale. If you want information on that, please mail me here.

NEW MODELS

These are my latest ketches in the form of computer renders (some of them are not yet 3D-printed, others are – see my portfolio above for pictures of the prints). All these new designs can be viewed in a 360 virtual render (click with your mouse on the image and move around). Some of these designs are already printed, but if not, this way of presenting digital designs give a real good idea of how the eventually 3D-printed sculptures will look like.

PAST FAVORITES

These are some of the best ‘real life’ 3D-printed statuettes that I made earlier (sold out).

Exhibition Queen Beatrix

In the exhibition ‘Once upon a time‘, Eric van Straaten reacts to the implications surrounding the abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on April …

Apr 2013

Eric van Straaten - 3D printed sculptures

360 Virtual Reality Gallery

All my new designs can be viewed in a 360 virtual render (click with your mouse on the image and move around). Some of these …

Apr 2013

New ‘African American’ Girl

I am experimenting with an ‘African American’ kind of girl. If you open the page here, a 360 virtual reality opens. If you click on …

Apr 2013

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ABOUT

According to trendwatchers, 3D-printing is the next big thing: in the near future, every household will own a printer that is capable of printing digital three-dimensional objects into a physical object. In the process that is best known under the name ‘Additive Manufacturing’, a 3D-printer builds up a model layer by layer by selectively hardening liquid or powder.
If this powder is a plaster-like material, a model can be directly printed in full color. The 3D-printing of delicate and colored models is far from being just pushing a button, but requires great technical skills. Therefore only a few specialize in this technique and there is no artist who pushes the boundaries of colorized 3D-prints as far as Eric van Straaten.
There is no technique that is capable of achieving such a great degree of hyper(sur)realism as 3D-modeling. At the same time, 3D printing is the only technique with which virtual models can be made actually physically touchable. Physical expressiveness in form and content is the biggest strength of the work of Eric van Straaten: while the sculptures remain to have a certain digital feel to them, the pieces contain a weirdly eroticized corporeality. Balancing on the edge of kitsch, the marzipan-like quality of the material resonates beautifully with the apparent innocence of the scenery.

Prof. Dr. Arnold Ratsberger

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