Cosmo Wenman’s THROUGH A SCANNER, SKULPTURHALLE Project #3dthursday

Artist and 3D printing provocateur Cosmo Wenman has been scanning, 3D printing, and sharing compelling works of art for a year now and has a remarkable opportunity to scan the world-class sculptural work in the Skulpturhalle Basel museum in Switzerland:

My name is Cosmo Wenman, and for the last year I’ve been 3D scanning artwork in museums and using those scans to 3D print life-size reproductions. I’ve been sharing my 3D printable files online so that anyone can 3D print their own copies too. You can see some of my work here: cosmowenman.com. It’s been a labor of love for me. I’ve been doing it for myself, for other art lovers, and for students and educators–for anyone who’s dreamed of owning fine sculptural art, but hasn’t had the means until now.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a home filled with books of illustrations and prints which formed the basis for my own appreciation for the beauty, themes, and meaning in art. If you were lucky in the same way, and know how important that is, you’ll want to know what’s on the horizon.

Recent advances in 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies are opening up new opportunities for the average person to possess and enjoy beautiful sculptural artwork of their own. The children growing up today and tomorrow with 3D printers in their homes and classrooms are on the verge of becoming the very first generation to have an aesthetic sensibility informed by direct, hands-on access to the world’s sculptural masterworks. Their cultural landscape and visual vocabulary will be richer, more complex, and more varied than ours. Sculpture and artifacts will be able to speak to them in ways that have never before been possible.

Eventually, 3D printable designs of the entire world’s cultural heritage of sculptural masterworks will be available to everyone, and this project is my attempt to make that happen sooner rather than later.

Up until now I’ve been doing my scanning work solo, just walking into museums and scanning what was accessible. But now I’ve found an institution that shares my goal of freely disseminating art using every available tool.

The Skulpturhalle Basel museum in Switzerland has an incredible collection of more than 2,000 high quality 19th and 20th century plaster casts of important ancient Greek and Roman sculptures. The Skulpturhalle has given me permission to 3D scan sculptures of my choosing, and to share the 3D designs without any restrictions.

This is a tremendous opportunity to bring great art into people’s lives.

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