An amazing series of sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Lauren Clay who recently obtained her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. She creates 3-dimensional sculptures by meticulously layering strips of “papier mâché” and painted paper to produce these intriguing and colorful organic shapes.
Lifes of grass
Description originale
Soil, wheat seeds, structure from recycled metal, fabric. Photos © Matthieu Raffard.
Exhibited at the 2010 Crossing the Line FIAF Festival at Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ; at the French Institute Alliance Française FGH Theater hall, NY ; at Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City at The Old Stone House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and at the Anatomia Botanica exhibition at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville.
The Lifes of Grass sculptures show the effects of transformation of the material as a metaphor of the transformation of the body. Time sculpts the forms, makes them change and then decay. In Egyptian Mythology, Osiris is the God of renewal, the one who eternally comes back to life. He is also the personification of the fertile land and the natural cycles: death and rebirth, dryness and fertility. The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. Through these anthropomorphic and organic sculptures made of soil and wheat grass seeds, I strive to show that food, it’s origin, it’s transport, has an impact on us beyond it’s taste. The power inside it affects every organ of our body. Observing nature and being aware of what and how we eat makes us more sensitive to food cycles in the world - of abundance, of famine - and allows us to be physically, intellectually and spiritually connected to a global reality.
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Crumbling Staircase Made of Salt
Description mymodernmet
Earlier this month, we were awestruck by Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto’s incredibly detailed salt maze floor installations and continue to be mesmerized by the art he creates with his medium of choice. As Alice first explained, “Salt has a special place in the death rituals of Japan, and is often handed out to people at the end of funerals, so they can sprinkle it on themselves to ward off evil.” While the material holds great personal significance for Yamamoto, who had to come to terms with the tragic death of his sister at a young age, this piece reflects on the devastating effects of earthquakes.
The sculptural salt staircase known as Utsusemi is an amazing body of work that has been presented several times in Japan and even made its way to P.S.1 in New York. It is more than a simple stationary piece. The work, though sculptural in its structure, has an interactive element to it. Blocks of salt are stacked atop each other to form a narrow flight of stairs that crumble at the presence of a simulated earthquake. At once, the piece echoes architectural ruin as well as the pouring of salt for the lives lost in the aftermath of the natural disaster that is so prevalent in Japan.
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Unnamed soundsculpture
Description vimeo
Project by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer
produced by:
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Documentation:
vimeo.com/38505448
Music: Machinefabriek “Kreukeltape”
machinefabriek.nu/
The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating
a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For
our work we asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by
Machinenfabriek) as closely as possible by movements of her body. She was
recorded by three depth cameras (Kinect), in which the intersection of the
images was later put together to a three-dimensional volume (3d point cloud),
so we were able to use the collected data throughout the further process.
The three-dimensional image allowed us a completely free handling of the
digital camera, without limitations of the perspective. The camera also reacts
to the sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the
performer. She moves to a noise field, where a simple modification of the
random seed can consistently create new versions of the video, each offering
a different composition of the recorded performance. The multi-dimensionality
of the sound sculpture is already contained in every movement of the dancer,
as the camera footage allows any imaginable perspective.
The body – constant and indefinite at the same time – “bursts†the space
already with its mere physicality, creating a first distinction between the self
and its environment. Only the body movements create a reference to the
otherwise invisible space, much like the dots bounce on the ground to give it
a physical dimension. Thus, the sound-dance constellation in the video does
not only simulate a purely virtual space. The complex dynamics of the body
movements is also strongly self-referential. With the complex quasi-static,
inconsistent forms the body is “paintingâ€, a new reality space emerges whose
simulated aesthetics goes far beyond numerical codes.
Similar to painting, a single point appears to be still very abstract, but the
more points are connected to each other, the more complex and concrete
the image seems. The more perfect and complex the “alternative worlds†we
project (Vilém Flusser) and the closer together their point elements, the more
tangible they become. A digital body, consisting of 22 000 points, thus seems
so real that it comes to life again.
text: Sandra Moskova
nominated for the for the MuVi Award:
kurzfilmtage.de/en/competitions/muvi-award/selection.html
see video in full quallity:
daniel-franke.com/unnamed_soundsculpture.mov
HQ Stills
flickr.com/photos/37752604@N05/sets/72157629203600952/
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Gordon Bennet’s Robots
Description trendland
These one of a kind robot sculptures by Gordon Bennet are made using new and used found objects. They are inspired by Norman Bel Geddes and Raymond Loewy whose vision of the “Modern Age” helped shape industrial design of the 40′s and 50′s. All of the robots shown here have been sold, but you can often find one at City Foundry in Brooklyn.
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Takanori Aiba
Description emptykingdom
Hailing from Yokohama, Japan, Takanori Aiba creates “dimensional” works of art combining his knowledge and past experience in maze illustration and architectural work. Aiba incorporates the traditional technique and aesthetic approach that is similarly found in the art of Bonsai grooming.
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Melissa Godoy Nieto’s Yarn Sculptures
Description trendland
Brooklyn based Mexican artist Melissa Godoy Nieto sent us her latest project, entitled ” Creatures of 2012″. In this new series of ‘experimental murals’ she uses hand-dyed yarn, pushpins and empty spray-paint cans to create what would usually be 2-d mix-media works into 3 dimensional sculptures. They are inspired by Mesoamerican imagery, temples and Mexican textiles.
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Nike Sportswear x Sicksystems ‘The Wolf” Plywood Sculpture
Description hypebeast
You know when a major apparel label like Nike opens its doors to a new store it will be accompanied by some sort of extravagant party, art showing or celebrity signing. The recent opening of Nike’s latest Sportswear store in Moscow at the end of last month saw the creative project titled The Wolf by Moscow-based graphic designer Aske AKA Sicksystems. This multilayer plywood sculpture features the design aesthetics of the Air Force 1 Duckboot transforming into the head of a menacing wolf. With dimensions at 86 x 112 cm, this acrylic painted sculpture captures the very essence of when fashion meets art.
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Sculptural Graffiti
Description illusionscene360
Some of Clemens Behr‘s public art installations are commissioned and others are apparently illegal. His three-dimensional work combines various materials such as cardboard, paint, wood, and more.
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Sculptures made from Dripped Paint
Description illusionscene360
If you walk around Chris Dorosz‘s art installations it will appear like his work is abstract, however, at a specific angle, you are able to see human figures formed by acrylic paint drips on plastic rods.
Notes from the artist’s statement:
Out of material discovery I began to regard the primacy of the paint drop, a form that takes shape not from a brush or any human-made implement or gesture, but purely from its own viscosity and the air it falls through, as analogous to the building blocks that make up the human body (DNA) or even its mimetic representation (the pixel). With this in mind I’ve been working towards creating a narrative of materials as the groundwork to explore changing ideas of human physicality.
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Peter Gronquist Revisit
Description emptykingdom
Peter Gronquist was featured back in May 2010 with his high-glam sculptural works of firearms. Gronquist has taken it one step further by creating animal hybrids packing steel of their own…high-glam steel of course. All hail, not the golden cow, but the cow with the golden horns!
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Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee
Description zillamag
An amazing series of sculptures made out of carved books by Montreal-based artist Guy Laramee . These landscapes symbolize the erosion of knowledge, just like mountains which flatten over time to become fields, that erases everything we know and everything we are. A minutious and painstaking work that almost seems unreal and is the witness of 25 years of artistic practice.
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In Vanity by Sean Augustine March
Description zillamag
An amazing series of sculptures/mosaics entitled “In Vanity” by up-and-coming artist Sean Augustine March that will be exhibited at the Rivington Design House in New York. These 4-sided pyramids are made with patterned mirrors on acrylic base with a lighted interior that projects colorful animations. These are then reflected on adjacent sculptures to create a unique environment that is “both deeply introspective and adamant in its aesthetic preservation of the infinite”. Note that the video below is unaltered, this is what you see in real life.
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New work from Olly Moss.
