One of many preposterously complex hand-cranked automatons by UK designer Dave Hall.
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Category Archives: Art/Craft
Notorious baddies depicted at the end of their natural life cycle by French artist Travis Durden.
Floating Piers – an undulating pathway on Italy’s Lake Iseo created by artists Christo and jean-Claude.
100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric supported by 220,000 high density polyethylene cubes connecting the streets of Sulzano and Peschiera Maraglio to Monte Isola and the island of San Paolo.
The installation remains in place until July 3rd.
Liquid Core
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The rather wonderful work of self-taught French sculptor Romain Langlois, who adds surfaces and elongated strands of glittering bronze to sections of split rock, creating fantastical representations of their ‘inner energy’.
An impressive and rather mesmeric interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ (followed by something even more impressive) by Turkish artist Garip Ay using the traditional paper marbling technique of ebru.
Colours are floated on the surface of a viscous watery solution called size before transferring the image to a sheet of paper.
Beetlebrick
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A lovingly detailed 1,167 piece 1960s VW Beetle designed by LEGO and due for release next month.
All features are correct from the flat windshield tothe four-cylinder air-cooled engine and fuel tank.
Rain – a bronze statue by Ukrainian artist Nazar Bilyk featuring a man with a gigantic glass raindrop perched on his upturned face, like a lens or maybe a crystal ball. The artist sez of it:
The raindrop is a symbol of the dialogue which connects a man with a whole diversity of life forms. The figure has a loose and porous structure and relates to dry land, which absorbs water. In this work I play with scale, making a raindrop large enough to compare a man with an insect, considering that man is a part of nature. Moreover, this work concerns the question of interaction and difficulties in coexistence of man with environment.
Extraordinarily realistic food sculptures by Seiji Kawasaki, hand carved from blocks of wood, painted, detailed and occasionally imbued with quirky functionality, as with the chilli pepper chopstick rests.
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A typographical poster for Trainspotting by UK illustrator Peter Strain for Film4’s Summer Screenings.
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