Softshoe Museum

I collaborated with Boy & Erik Stappaerts over the course of several years, the results of which are many. It started as a project meant to promote the work of Boy & Erik Stappaerts, a drawer, painter and sculptor. Boy & Erik had conceived a complete Softshoe Museum with wall paintings and sculptures. He had realized some of these sculpture and hoped to one day realize the others. In fact, he was hoping to one day realize the complete museum.

One of Boy & Erik's original drawings of the museum, showing the floor, the four walls, the ceiling, and all sculptures and wall paintings.

Enhanced original drawing by Boy & Erik of the Sculptuur met Bom.

In the meantime, instead of just presenting the plans and drawings of this envisioned museum and sculptures, we decided to create a high-quality 3D models of it.

Museum Sculptures

These are some of the 3D models (created using Lightwave) of the sculptures in the Softshoe Museum. The models were highly detailed to allow us to produce high-resolution prints for exhibitions.

3D model of Sculptuur met Bom, partially realized.

3D model of the Groenplaats sculpture.

3D model of the Monument (left) and bench (right) sculptures, since partially realized.

Wireframe of a detail of the Monument sculpture model..

3D model of the Wall Relief sculpture.

Detail of Wall Relief sculpture in the Museum, with reflections of the floor painting.

Rendition of the Diffusion sculpture in Museum.

Rendition of the Diffusion sculpture in Museum.

The Museum

Rendition of the final Museum model, realized as large print. (click to enlarge)

Unfolding of the 3D model of the Museum.

CD/Rom

Satisfied with our collaboration and looking for a way to exhibit an integrated presentation of the original artwork as well as the digital material, we decided to create an interactive CD/Rom. I developed multiple versions of this CD/Rom using Macromedia Director. Several screenshots are shown below.

Version 2

Version 2.5

Wireframe rendition of the 3D model of the Octopussy Cave.

Exhibitions

The very first exhibition of the CD/Rom in 1996 at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (NL).

1998, Tussenruimten, Baljuwhuis, Galmaarden (BE).

1998, The Bold and the Beautiful, Rubenslei 17, Antwerpen (BE).

1998, digital prints at the The Bold and the Beautiful, Rubenslei 17, Antwerpen (BE).

1999, Ink & Töner, De Markten, Brussel (BE).

2000, Fil Rouge, Biennale Louvain-la-Neuve (BE, Curator Filip Braem).

The Museum Revisited at Troublespot Painting - MuHKA, 1999 - Antwerpen (BE)

Rendition of the 3D model of the exhibition set-up in the original exhibition proposal.

Rendition of the Snake Bomb sculpture model for the MuHKA exhibition.

Various views of the MuHKA exhibition model.

Museum Revisited in the Troublespot Painting catalogue. (click to enlarge)