Sospiro

The Sculpture Cemetery

You take a roof vent... J.A. Plastindustri specializes in manufacturing custom roof accessory lines, using injection molding and thermoforming techniques for plastic. After countless visits to JA Plast’s vast production halls filled with fascinating shapes and profiles, Thomas Wolsing—working closely with model maker Viggo and the rest of the technical staff—drew inspiration from one specific product: a roof vent—a roof cap designed for ventilation on a square section of roof profile.
The theme of “ventilation/breathing” on various scales forms the conceptual basis for this plastic sculpture, which more than 20 employees helped produce and assemble into a rhombicosidodecahedron—a mathematical shape consisting exclusively of triangles, quadrilaterals, and pentagons, and whose progenitor is the cube.
The result is now a large soccer-ball-shaped sculpture in various exciting colors and textural contrasts, with a diameter of over 2 meters. It consists of 30 roof vents, 20 noses, and 12 sculptural enlargements of a stomatode—the cell on the underside of leaves that allows plants and trees to breathe.
All in all, different ways of “breathing.”