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Steel Variations, 2011
Owatonna, MN & Blooming Prairie, MN
CNC Cut Steel and Powder Coated - 5 Bike Racks 9' Height x 8' Dia.
A series of five public functional bike rack sculptures which are being installed in front of each communities city hall and public library.
Installation Images -
Talk & Reception June 22 2011 7PM at Owatonna Public Library
Suspended Cardboard Domes with Giant Squid, 2010
14' Diameter
Cardboard Beam with Giant Squid, 2009
16' Height x 31' Length x 14' Width
Corrugation: Build, Live, Discover
1000 Custom
Interlocking Cardboard Circles - Workshop Images
Biography
Wil Natzel lives and works in Owatonna, MN. He graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2009 with a Master of Architecture. He has produced and assembled large architectural constructions of cut cardboard for The Soap Factory in Minneapolis. In 2007 he received a Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University. He has been invited as critic to studio reviews at the University of Michigan and Iowa State University. Early in his career, he interned for Charlie Lazor, designing FlatPak prefabricated bathrooms. Wil's field of work circulates around the periphery of eclectic architecture, counteracting the banal.
Statement
Creating an expansion in architectural Eclecticism, I endeavor to explore and revel in the expression of patterned surfaces and dare I say "Romanticism shunned by purely performative architecture."" In doing so, I have allowed and made space for narrative to exist, to construct a Spatial Graffiti. My constructions further contemporary fabrication and manufacturing relative to its historically antagonistic relationship between technology and the production of ornament and decoration. I have created a place where pattern and decoration can thrive in Architecture and not be immediately cast aside.