by Paula Schaper | Mar 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Artist Ned Schaper in front of his new location on Broadway, wearing the Painful Moment Simulator. Photo courtesy of Abril Castillo.
After a bit of turbulence when the former Mat Bevel Institute of 17 years was demolished at 530 N. Stone, sculptor, poet, performer, physicist Ned Schaper dubbed the large landscape of found-object sculptures The Beveled Ark after moving them three times in 6 months. His former 5,000 square foot historic warehouse was leveled in anticipation of a highway.
Now Ned and his sister Paula have established the Society for Bevel Intentions in the Sam Hughes neighborhood. The new location offers Ned and Paula a long anticipated business opportunity. Here at the former Rose Petal Bridal Fashions store, they’re launching Bevelvision Internet TV for audiences of all ages around the globe.
The name Bevelvision refers to seeing through the bevel, past the surface. The bevel is a portal that leads to a virtual temple of pathways lined with iconoglyphs where people can go beyond the surface to a deeper world of alternative inspiration.
Schaper explains, “The internet allows us to go back to nature in the sense that everything we need is ‘virtually’ there, but we have to find it. So the interface of the technology must, like the plants, allow us to sort through it without having to see it all. We need to be able to navigate thru to the areas that will give us what we need by sensing what to ignore.”
Ever adaptable, once Schaper set-up the Museum of Kinetic Art in the new location, he realized that from Broadway, they looked like they were packed into an aquarium. With The Rose Petal’s gallery-like interior and large glass display windows, Schaper calls the new location the Bevelarium.
For more information, contact Paula Schaper by phone at 520-604-6273 or email: pschaper@bevelintentions.org.
by Paula Schaper | Mar 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Ned Schaper at his new location in Tucson’s Sam Hughes neighborhood. Photo courtesy Abril Castillo.
Sculptor, poet, performer, physicist Ned Schaper docked his 92-piece sculpture collection in the Sam Hughes Neighborhood in late 2014. The move came on the heels of his solo show at the Tucson Museum of Art called Welcome to Beveldom: Mat Bevel’s Museum of Kinetic Art.
Schaper opens his doors for the first time in this new location, at2855 E. Broadway Blvd., as part of the Sam Hughes Neighborhood Tour on Sunday April 12 from noon to 5 pm. You are invited to come see the future of ART as you walk among the kinetic sculptures on the production set for Bevelvision, Mat Bevel’s new Internet theater.
In the future, audiences anywhere in the world will be able to enjoy the Mat Bevel world of kinetic art and its captivating characters, including Lover Boy, The New Non-Prophet and Dr. Paradox. Set in a narrative of 435 theater vignettes, The Three Days of Beveldom is being produced here, at the former Rose Petal Bridal Fashions store, right now.
All of Schaper’s art has been created from discarded objects, using his principles of Available Resource Technology (ART). When you step inside, you’ll experience a mechanical rainforest and the enchanting cacophony created by animated sculptures with names like Americana Duck, Sharka and The F.A.R. Gun. These kinetic sculptures have been props and costumes—headdresses, motorized vehicles, musical instruments and mechanized puppets—used onstage alongside 52 action heroes in the Mat Bevel live theater experience.
Once Schaper installed his sculptures in this new location, with its open interior space and large glass display windows, he saw that they look as though they are in an aquarium. Schaper calls this space the Bevelarium.
For more information, contact Paula Schaper by phone at 520-604-6273 or email: pschaper@bevelintentions.org.
