Laszlo Tompa, Prism gate (ART & OBJECTS 2025)

Photos:

Fox in frame, András Juhász

Country

Hungary

My starting point is the solid object sphericon. After years of experiments I realized that it’s possible to create a body consisting of more than two elements and also having the same properties like the basic sphericon composed of two elements. The idea of these sculptures came into my mind during designing periodic wall tiles. I did experiments with regular triangle- and square-based meshes. I developed these to 3D tiles, by spinning them around their axis giving rotation axis objects that were halved and from some of them I cut out a quarter. I attached 144 turned elements of two different shapes to a plywood base body consisting of 12 cube units. The final complex product is assembled together from bespoke wooden revolutions, manufactured by copy lathe. The 2D templates for the individual elements were CNC cut. The separate revolutions are then fitted together by hand and fixed. Cherry wood, dimensions: 62 x 22 x 67 cm

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