Posts in Category ‘Sculpture’

 
 

Dutch designer gained a lot of exposure through these mask experiments, and rightly so. I have a bit of an obsession with masks as well, and was delighted to discover this series of extravagant, weird and truly striking experiments.

“Although seemingly these masks tell stories, this again started out as a material experiment. I wanted to find out if by stitching a rope together I could make a large flat carpet. Instead of flat, the samples got curvy. When I was about to give up on the carpet, Vladi came up with the idea of ​​shaping the rope into masks. The possibilities are endless, I’m meeting new faces every day.”

 

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Geometrically and meaningfully complex sculptures made of discarded wood pieces, by .

“I think [my artworks] are representative of the shift in modern building practices, such as a move away from wood in favour of concrete, steel and synthetics. What this means for me is access to plenty of materials discarded as waste. Homes once represented their inhabitants via their style, construction, size, gardens, landscape, paint job… the list goes on. Contemporarily, close proximity living disallows this expression with prebuilt structures incapable of customization accompanied by strata councils, neighborhood aesthetic guidelines, etc.
 It seems like materials such as wood have become placeholders for the homes that now stand in the shadows of these modern forms of living. It is the materials that create a contrast between the living practices of the past and those of today. I like to think that the work draws attention to this historical contrast through its material usage, structural /architectural qualities, complexity, and apparent organized chaos.”

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designs fascinating sculptures of water in motion, made in carved acrylic.

“One day I was walking across a bridge and thought I wish I could just reach down into the water and pick up a piece of that shining surface and keep it forever.

I didn’t start working on this right away because in those years I had a job at a mutual fund. But, from that work, I did know it was possible to develop software to model vast, turbulent, nonlinear data sets like money … and also, maybe, water in motion.

In early 2008 I was ready and returned to this idea full blast. I gave away a closet full of business suits and lady-shoes and began to build my studio and skills. I traveled to Detroit and found idled expert machinists to teach me precision milling. I learned animation and 3D modeling. I experimented with materials and developed a color palette in acrylic block. Rather than hire fabricators, I developed methods and equipment to make every piece myself in my own studio.

Now, when I look at my finished work, I see peace. Powerful emotion and turbulence have found a resting place. The surface is a lense for pure light.”

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In over four years since I’ve been editing this blog, I’ve never felt the desire to post my own work alongside all the amazing art and photography showcased here. I’m still a bit hesitant, but also curious to know people’s reactions to these, so I thought I’d share and see — I’m open to feedback.

Four Masks/Manifestations are a series of masks I created following an abstract and self-explorative theme. The idea was to mainly focus on the eyes, the only part of the human face which truly communicates one’s world. In this sense, the rest of the mask is a facial manifestation of what one’s eyes communicate. Read the rest of the statement , and a few more images .

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Norwegian artist and graphic designer creates abstract, hard-edged three-dimensional objects with influences from design and architecture.

“The process became more intuitive and playful. This is a way of working that I find more rewarding than merely carrying through thought-out plans; it leaves room for making discoveries and developing my work. All the materials used in the sculptures are fake materials that represent something else (plastic that replicates stone, MDF you could say mimics wood). Cibatool is a material made specifically to produce prototypes (representations of the ).”

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Cuban artist and sculptor has a distinct way of capturing ideas. His humorous approach to depicting human qualities (or weaknesses) across a variety of psychological, political and sexual topics is strikingly balanced against the seriousness of the techniques and materials he uses.

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 artworks are delicately placed at an intersection between photography, sculpture, architecture, installation and new media. The beauty of her constructions lies in their opposing nature – neither abstract nor concrete, and neither physical nor completely virtual.

“I construct installations with simple materials in the studio and project computer-generated shapes on to them, transforming the construction with light and shadows. In this way, I attempt to reconstruct mental spaces from my imagination, combining the contained physical world and the expansive possibilities of the virtual world to construct images. “

 

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