Stone 40 is currently on loan to Bjarke Ingles Group and installed at their new headquarters building in the harbor of Copenhagen.
Stone, steel, and earth - 33x33x7’
Engineering by Amihay Gonen
Steel and wood - 150x12x15’ - Created and temporarily installed for Burning Man 2022 - Nevada, USA
Merit winner CODAAwards 2023 Landscape category
Engineering By Amihay Gonen
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Second image by @luminea.eu
Stone, steel, and earth - 33x33x7’ - Chatsworth House - Bakewell, UK
A site-specific work that was created for Chatsworth House’s “Radical Horizons” 2022 exhibition.
Engineering By Amihay Gonen
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Stone and steel - 27x60x43’ - Private Collection - Tim Draper - Marin, California
CODAAwards top 100 2020
Engineering By Amihay Gonen and Amy Kordosky
15.5x39.4x33’ - stone and steel - Horizons “Nature Arts” Festival, Montgreleix, France, Summer 2021
Engineering By Amihay Gonen
5x21.6x11’ - stone and steel - 23rd Annual Art on The Streets exhibition, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2021
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17x17x15’ - stone, steel, mechanical components, electrical components - Berlin, Winter 2020
Circling Stone 1 is an interactive artwork in which the perpetually moving stone creates a void-space as it orbits. A distinct inside and outside space emerges. From outside visitors of the work are confronted with time. Time as a moment. A precise moment in which it is opportune to enter the created void. Once inside, the visitor’s perception of time changes again. Time slows. Stillness takes over. Presence emerges. What will the visitor do with that moment? When will the moment expire? When will it be time to emerge from the safety of inside?
While inside all one must do is exactly nothing.
The space outside is more complicated.
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Stone, steel, concrete, mechanical components, and electrical components - 23x16.5x5’ - Berlin, Germany
Engineering By Amihay Gonen, programing by Marcus Ding, and Siimon Kind
The stone is moved continuously, requiring 12 hours to travel from the ceiling at noon to just above the floor at midnight. Illustrating time, with time.
Shown at Corona Culture, October - November 2021, Alte Munze, Berlin
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13.75x33x42.5’ - Stone and Steel - Berlin, April 2020
Engineering by Amihay Gonen
Currently on view at Alte Munze in Berlin
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Stone and steel - 27x60x43’ - Created and temporarily installed for Burning Man 2019 - Nevada, USA - Currently Private Collection - Tim Draper - Marin, California
Engineering By Amihay Gonen and Amy Kordosky
Stone and steel - 17x16.5x19.5’ - Bombay Beach, CA - 33.348178, -115.727402
Sone and steel - 15.75x42.5,30.2’ - Private Collection - Victoria Nels - Cape Town, South Africa - -34.0042131, 18.4244357
Sone and steel - 15.75x42.5,30.2’ - Created and temporarily installed for AfrikaBurn 2019 - Tankwa Karoo, South Africa
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 7 stones floating above the earth. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create a moment of physical and mental elevation. Stone 7 finds inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
This artwork was originally created for AfrikaBurn 2019 and has found it way out of the desert and into the trees and grass of Rocklands Health and Movement Center.
Stone and steel - 14x19.7x23’ - Private collection - Donner Lake, Trukee CA - 39.3297934, -120.2514647
Spellbound is a film project directed by Ulrike Kaffei. For this project she asked me to build an installation that could represent the connection that is formed between rigger and model while they are tying.
Installation and photos by me
Models and body rope by Marika Leila Roux and Gestalta
This installation was made with help from Chen Sumrith and Christi Ra.
Sone and steel, 14x23.25x20’ - Private collection - Spokane Washington - 47.5526568, -117.4749817
Shibari Sanctuary was an exploration and celebration of natural highs. It took the shape of a 20 foot tall mountain made of 11 miles of rope. It had a womb like interior where people could relax and where we hosted performances. I lead this project at Burning Man 2017 and it was made possible with the help of a grant from the Black Rock City Honorarium program as well as crowdfunding from an Indiegogo campaign. Shibari Sanctuary was a collaboration with my teacher Kinoko Hajime, and involved the help of an amazing team of up to 30 people at some points of the project.
The structure elements took 4 days to put in place with a small team. The rope took 27 consecutive hours to tie in order to finish by sunrise of the event.
We hosted 3 performance nights as well as a burn on Friday evening.
I was the lead artists, project manager, build lead, burn coordinator, camp manager for 13 people coming from around the world many of whom speak limited english. Lyly Tran was the second brain of the project. Shibari Sanctuary would not have been possible without the help of many amazing people both on and off Playa.
Ayumi LaNoire — Perfectly timed translation.
Chandra Lynn Zas — Early conspirator, longterm consultation and encouragement, people connector, and of course camp manager.
Lyly Tran — Second brain, maximum enthusiasm, poop coordinator.
Bryce Neuman — Super early engineering help.
Jeremy Crandell — Burning Man Project Manager, question answerer.
ASS man Ben — Art Support Services contact.
Maki Oshita — Japan team Burning Man education, translation, taiko, tickets, people connector.
Ali lahijanian & Selinda Martinez of RBHU — Structural engineering design and spec to Burning Man's requirements, Playa building knowledge, question answerers.
Katie Hazard — Burning Man FAST burn coordinator
At Beit Kandinof in Tel Aviv i transormed their space into a temple of rope.
I love to create and show my work in public. In places where it's unexpected and sometimes uninvited. When I arrived in Paris I felt such a strong negative atmosphere that instantly I felt I would not be able to make my work here. There are police everywhere. Guards with huge guns. On the metro everyone's expression is guarded and everyone is holding their ground. A single photo being taken sparked a 20 minute debate between an old man, homeless man, and young boy. Where while I couldn't understand most of what was being said, terrorist was mentioned several times.
So when I happened to walk into the empty 59 Rivoli gallery with Yumi it felt so obvious to us that this was a space that should be filled. Having a glass wall between me an Paris seemed necessary in order to create work. I never imagined we would be allowed but to my amazement we were given permission at 3:00 and were told to have the gallery clean again by 8:00. This created the adventure perfect for what I like to make. Something ephemeral. If you're there you get to see it. If not, too bad. I first tied a network in the background to create a bound environment. I tied and suspended a few simple shapes to give the network life and movement even without a human in it. This also demonstrates the strength of the network and of the rope so the shock of seeing a human added to it is somewhat lessened. Once it was dark I began to tie. Outside a crowd was forming, but inside there was no sound other then a Skype conversation happening somewhere upstairs. The atmosphere felt very different. Yumi came in from outside to tell me to kiss Poppy. She thought people watching were very tense and even though I had chosen positions that were very easy and more beautiful then brutal they needed reassurance that this was consensual and okay.
Kinbaku, Japanese rope bondage has the power to give someone the most profound natural high. This feeling is so important to share with people, it shows them a little bit of magic in themselves and in the world. My goal is to share this magic with as many people in the world as possible. Thank you to59 Rivoli for letting me share with people on the streets of Paris. And thank you Hajime Kinoko my teacher for giving me a medium to express myself in.
Models: Yumi and Hinako
Made with help from Yumi