Lately I am quite in awe with these amazing installations by Tel Aviv-based artist Eyal Gever. They are works of collision, simulating bus-vs-bus, bus-vs-car and vehicle-vs-wall crashes. 

I was immediately struck by the look of his art works, imagined what it would be like to walk amongst them in a gallery. But when I started doing a little research I was a bit disappointed by the fact that his artworks are actually not as big as I imagined them.. For example the image above is 30x35x85 cm. Nonetheless they have quite an interesting story to them.

Gever actually started his career in the Israeli military as a paratrooper, but got confined to a desk due to health issues.  He was responsible for simulations of explosions and other forms of (what I suppose) attacks. This software he started using to create minimalist installations, because he was interested in the ‘sublime moments’ of such crashes, that are filled with horror but also with amazement and awe.

The models he had created onscreen are eventually printed using a 3-D printer, each model taking 60 hours to print. Gevers” body of work does also include frozen moments of other disasters, such as bombs and tsunami’s, but those are somehow less impressive than his slightly more minimalistic collision works.  Interested nonetheless? Visit his website. For now I will leave you with the floating cloth-simulation called Levitation:

All images courtesy of Eyal Gever