In-House 3D Laser Scanning Takes Sculpture Fabrication to New Levels

Once attained only through strategic partnerships with companies that owned expensive 3-dimensional scanning technologies, today, Demiurge LLC is just one of a few public art and sculpture production studios that have brought 3D scanning in house. 

Image from Demiurge's 3D scanner.With 3D scanners on site, Demiurge can save clients time and money by transferring artists’ maquettes directly into our 3D CAD programs. More than that, our use of 3D technology increases the quality of the finished work on all levels.

Our ability to precisely recreate and refine our artists’ visions and then produce them at any scale has helped Demiurge become a leader in the public art and sculpture production market.

3D technology has enabled the Demiurge team to significantly reduce labor in all areas of sculpture production. For many competing companies, it can take weeks to create drawings for fabricators to work from. Once the concept is complete, Demiurge provides complete concept, construction and structural design, along with photo-realistic renderings.

Demiurge also partners with KL&A Structural Engineers to provide the best materials and methods to maintain the artist's vision at all scales.

Demiurge Completes Alaska Sculpture for Osman Akan

Fabrication is complete on a new sculpture by Turkish born, New York artist Osman Akan for the Crime Detection Laboratory in Anchorage, Alaska. The sculpture includes 300 squares of stainless steel and dichroic glass panels that hang from a 20 foot tall brushed stainless steel structure.

From its concave and convex surfaces to the orientation of its structure, the entire artwork is formed by the daily and yearly cycles of the Sun in the particular location of the Alaska Crime Detection Laboratory. Much like the shifting colors of the seasons, the artwork also changes its appearance by reflecting and refracting sunrays, and by the observation angle of its audience.

If you’ve ever been to the Denver Botanic Gardens, you may have seen a similar design growing out of the parking structure’s atrium, Akan’s Albedo, which Demiurge also fabricated and installed in 2010.

Demiurge Installs at London’s Frieze Art Fair

Demiurge is taking its fabrication abroad. Recently, Demiurge travelled to London's Regent's Park to help install Will Ryman’s Icon, the next in a series of public exhibitions of Ryman’s ‘The Roses’ sculptures since they were shown on Park Avenue in New York in January 2011.

Will Ryman's "Icon"Icon was featured among some of the most acclaimed international sculptors such as Thomas Houseago and Claudia Fontes, as well as pieces by Tom Friedman and Kiki Smith at the Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, which offers a rare opportunity to see a significant large-scale international work presented in the English Gardens of Regent’s Park.

Like with The Roses, Demiurge fabricated the 32-foot stems of Icon in its Denver studio and then transported them to London for installation, working on site with Momart, a London company with more than 30 years of experience and an international reputation of handling fine art and antiques.

A January 16, 2011, New York Times article said The Roses were a “large scale love letter to New York… transforming Park Avenue into a fanciful garden” and “reflecting Ryman’s flair for the dramatic and absurdly wonderful.”

Prior to London, Demiurge fabricated The Rose for an outdoor installation at The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. and at the Verbier 3D Foundation Sculpture Festival, Verbier, Switzerland.

Next, Ryman and Demiurge will work together in Coral Gables, FL, where Ryman's solo exhibition, Will Ryman: Desublimation of the Rose will be installed at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden starting December 1, 2011 – May 31, 2012, through Art Basel Miami week and a brand new sculpture for Ryman's new series of work to be premiered at his solo exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York.