Real-life sculptures meet their Augmented Reality identical twins in accomplished international artist George Burchett’s debut Kuala Lumpur exhibition at A+ Works of Art.
Born in Hanoi, raised in Southeast Asia, and with an extraordinary life lived across multiple continents, Australian artist George Burchett has long been a one-off trailblazer. The Mother in-Law project combines his extraordinary cross-cultural experiences with his lifelong use of pioneering technologies to create original art works that – uniquely – are each produced in four simultaneous ‘dimensions’.
Each Mother-in-Law tells her own story, whether cultural, historical, or mythical. These stories are informed by George’s astonishing life experience and decades of learning from literature, formal studies and living history. From Lambretta, an artwork inspired by the sassy Vietnamese women who zip around Hanoi on their scooters, to Ya Kuza, a secretly tattooed Mother-in-Law inspired by Japanese gangsters and anime, George has created art works which resonate, delight and reveal themselves over
time.
Each Mother-in-Law is first conceived and created by hand by George at his studio in Hanoi. Being a family creative studio, George’s son Graham uses his mastery of 3D to render each artwork into a unique 3D form. The numbered one-off sculptures are then produced using the studio’s state-of-the-art 3D colour printers. Each sculpture takes up to a week or more to produce, using a largely carbonneutral thermoplastic polyester, known as PLA.
Collectors of each Mother-in-Law will acquire four versions of its form: a 3D sculpture, a digital version of this 3D sculpture, a 2D-printed form on paper, and a high-resolution 2D digital form. The 3D sculptures are 48cm high and can be free-standing or displayed in the beautiful hand-inscribed presentation boxes that were custom-designed for the project.
The Mother-in-Law project has been a collaboration over the past two years with NIYOS, led by Adrian Jones, a leading technology innovator for the art world that has developed the Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) components of the project. With a long background as a successful technology entrepreneur, Adrian Jones is the founder of Witness Collection, one of Southeast Asia’s finest art collections, consisting of nearly 2,000 pieces of Vietnamese art from the past 100 years, which he started in the 1980s. Over the years, important works from Witness Collection have been exhibited in museums throughout the world. NIYOS brings together Adrian’s decades of experience in technology and art for the first time.
Collectors of Mother-in-Law receive access to an App, which allows the digital version of their 3D artwork to be rendered in the real world using Augmented Reality. First demonstrated during Art Basel in Miami, the App allows collectors to take their Mother-in-Law artwork with them on their travels and to capture images and videos, which are limited only by the collector’s imagination. The collector gets to become their own artist and share their creations, without any risk to their artwork. It also allows collectors to enjoy their art works wherever they are.
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