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In this episode Kuno talks to Gregory Ryan (USA). Gregory is a successful sculptor from Philadelphia who lives and works mostly in Paris. His work consists of huge metal pieces showing surface patterns you find in nature. A mountain range, a waterfall or a landslide on planet Venus. Gregory is fascinated by surface.To create these patterns he scales down 3D maps of the Grand Canyon 100.000 times or simulates water with hi-tech computer programming. Since his pieces are so complicated, he collaborates with people from different worlds like those working in science (NASA) or in the fabrication site of things. That happens mostly in the large industrial foundry where Gregory casts his work. One of his most spectacular projects took place in 2004 in Kenya, Africa. With help of the local Samburu tribe he tracked a group of elephants. One animal was put to sleep for 30 minutes. In that time Gregory put a coat of latex on the elephant. He pealed it off when it had dried. That way an incredibly detailed print of the elphant skin could later be cast in bronze. Many of these pieces were shown at his first successful solo exhibition at the Briggs-Robinson Gallery in New York. For New York Alive Gregory will show images from the foundry, Kenya and his latest works.
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