Category Archives: Art/Craft
Bone and metalwork sculptures by Jessica Joslin.
Currently exhibiting at Firecat Projects in Chicago, should you be in the neighbourhood.
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A magnificent, 8m tall, 15 tonne stainless steel eagle composed of 5000 metal prisms with a 15m wingspan made by artist Gabor Miklos Szoke.
The sculpture, commissioned by Hungarian football club Ferencvárosi Torna, took 100 people 7 months to construct and is the largest bird sculpture in Europe.
Swordsmith brothers Matt and Kerry Stagmer and their crew of blacksmiths forge a series of Walking Dead inspired zombie killing implements for your delectation.
Finnish artist Liu Susiraja likes to photograph herself in bizarre, largely food related poses.
She really doesn’t care what you think about that.
From artist Joe Forkan’s ‘series…
‘…of paintings and drawings exploring layered narratives, using masterpieces of Western art and the Coen Brother’s film The Big Lebowski as a starting point.’
Now that’s an artist’s statement.
Above: paintings based on The Incredulity of St Thomas (Caravaggio, 1602) (1,2); Wanderer Above the Sea Of Fog (Caspar David Friedrich, 1818); Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio, 1601); Oath of The Horatii (Jacques-Louis David, 1784); The Lamentation (Peter Paul Rubens, 1614) and Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid (Diego Velázquez, 1637).
Original artworks here.
Take My Lightning But Don’t Steal My Thunder: artist Alex Chinneck’s theatrical painted and carved foam and metal installation at Covent Garden in London: a 40 foot long ‘building (modelled on the original 1830 Covent Garden Market building) whose upper half appears to float above its stone base.
Available to explore until Friday.
