Detonography: The Explosive Art of Evelyn Rosenberg

I enjoyed large mural projects, which got me interested in huge public art. That had been my first exposure to large public art. Sivan, according to Rosenberg, wanted to do something fun and had a brilliant idea that art could be created by using explosives. He was searching for an artist to work with and someone suggested Rosenberg, who was doing etchings at that time.

They met, realized they had a common goal and, to make it easier, both spoke Hebrew.

At that time her copper plates for the etchings, were becoming deeper and deeper embossed. After three months, he returned to Israel, but I continued to work on this medium. Soon, the idea of trying to make printing plates were given up and I started making bas-relief metal plates that would stand on their own as works of art.

I always say it's like childbirth-messy, dangerous, an uncontrollable force, but then you get something beautiful, delicate and refined from it.

That's how I started doing it. Since then, Evelyn has created about 40 to 45 pieces of public art throughout the United States as well as one in Tanzania at the Serengeti Game Park Visitors Center entitled Regenesis. Paul, Minnesota, who were killed in a plane crash called We the People , located in the lobby of Neighborhood House, an immigration center in St. When it's all together, the explosive is detonated and the actual explosion forces the images of the objects that include the contours of the mold into the plate.

Copper Catalyst: Evelyn Rosenberg's Explosive Art of Detonography

After the dust settles, Rosenberg inspects the results. If it's the way she planned, she polishes it and treats it with chemicals to created colorful patinas in a variety of colors. Details are polished in, just like a painting, from the explosively created panel. She takes advantage of three characteristics that occur in the blast to create her images.

First, the metal is formed over a plaster mold of three-dimensional design by the tremendous pressure of the explosive, which is traveling at 27, feet per second. Second, due to the force of the explosion, dissimilar metals are pressure welded together by the pressure of the blast and third, real objects as stated above are placed between the explosive and the metal plate to impress them into the surface of the plate. I enjoy taking a destructive force and using it to make something that I feel is beautiful.

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E-mail her at evelynrosenberg comcast. He asked if I wanted to keep working on this? So I taught a class on the history of the technology of art, because it was an engineering school. It was a pretty interesting class. I taught for a couple of semesters while I was developing this process. Once I had the process developed, then I started to make pieces and I stopped teaching.

In addition to the explosion itself, is there a kind of alchemical process that happens? You have these messy, destructive, painful, horrible things happening, and then you get these beautiful delicate objects, I think these things, they look very delicate. The lion with wings came next. That was done as part of a four-part series which is now at the university campus in Roswell. Do you see that one as different? I consider myself very Jewish in the sense that both my kids had Jewish weddings.

Rosenberg's Explosive Process of Detonography

I like this idea of disguise, hidden identities. She has a mask like a butterfly mask.

He was very good, he was amazing, I still get his newsletters. And you are wearing some sort of dress? I like the idea — I have not thought about it at all. That is true that the lioness is a much more sexual creature than this sorceress.

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The female principle has been suppressed by the male gods of the world, but the female principle is waiting to reemerge and to be the controlling factor in the world. So you are saying the explosives part is masculine, but the result is very feminine? I see it as the forces of nature, which can be terrible and devastating, but can also create a flower or a butterfly, or a piece of art. I assume that I will always continue to be an artist and that if I have to, I will have more assistants.

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Louise Nevelson worked into her 80s on very large sculptural pieces. I just got a new assistant six months ago. You think somebody in their 60s could decide to become an artist? You know Michaela Karni? She was a writer. Then she started painting, very late, just in the last five years or so.

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She wrote romance novels and some mysteries and then she just started painting. Titian got better in his 80s, he was doing great stuff. View more at her website www.

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