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| DAVE RITTINGER , BROOKLYN ( NEW YORK , U.S.A. ) |
Dave Rittinger is a Brooklyn
based Artist and Designer whose work is often playful, contextual, and
opportunistic. Embodying a sense of humor and dueling spirit of critique and
optimism he makes work that relates to our contemporary place in time through
the embrace of wry subject matter and eccentric selection of materials.
His work has been shown
throughout the New York area and has been featured in nymag, surface magazine, sick of the radio, design boom, art info, fashionista and beautiful decay .
CONTACT - dave@daverittinger.com
THE COLOR PENCIL TREE
Dave Rittinger had developed a proposal for a public art installation in North Philadelphia entitled 'Color Pencil Tree'. The arboreal sculpture morphs tree branches with the body of the colored drawing tools. The concept is dictated by the usage of existing trees to be re-purposed into a work of art for a City Park, in which many trees were slated for removal for a reserve redesign. Rittinger experimented with manipulating the limbs into different wooden objects of a similar shape like a baseball bat or toothpick but the vibrant shades of the pencils were the successful conclusion.
Rittinger says of the piece -
" My work is often playful, colorful and incorporates a sort of metaphorical blending of objects and function, so the fact that pencils are made of trees just made perfect sense. I really liked the idea of morphing the raw material into an embodiment of a manufactured product at this exaggerated scale."
DAVE'S OTHER CREATIONS
