Well, if it ain’t the mischievous Face Of Bray.
(Thanks Stiegl)
Let’s have a closer look:
He drinks the slops.
Thanks Art Of The Heid
Tag Archives: sculpture
Some of London-based South African artist Jonty Hurwitz’s mind-bending, digitally distorted anamorphic sculptures. Each precisely constructed steel, resin, copper or perspex piece begins with the fragmentation of a real world object with millions of computer calculations. Sez he:
For the anamorphic pieces its an algorithmic thing, distorting the original sculptures in 3D space using 2πr or πr3 (cubed). Much of it is mathematical, relying on processing power. There is also a lot of hand manipulation to make it all work properly too as spacial transformation have a subtle sweet spot which can only be found by eye. Generally I will 3D scan my subject in a lab and then work the model using Mathematica or a range of 3D software tools. I think the π factor is really important in these pieces. We all know about this irrational number but the anamorphic pieces really are a distortion of a “normal” sculpture onto an imaginary sphere with its centre at the heart of the cylinder.
Hurwitz exhibits at Kinetica in London next month.
Outside Nama
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This afternoon.
Dave Madigan and Meadhbh O’Connor write
We are two visual artists working on a joint project entitled ‘Power Structures’, which involves the photographing of a temporary sculpture in different loci of power. We are interested in aspects of power in its many manifestations.We have constructed a modular Sierpinski pyramid as a symbol of a hierarchical structure, i.e. many components on the lower layer, proportionally fewer on the layer above and so on rising to a single apex.
We have been photographing it with various recognisable institutions or agencies of power and influence, be they political, financial, religious, infrastructural or social. It is our intention to elicit in our audience a questioning of the nature, distribution and formation of power in society. We took this at 4pm outside Nama’s headquarters in Treasury Building, Dublin.
More information on the project here.
Sandy Cause
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Five hundred Santa Clauses constructed on the beaches of Purl, Odisha in India by renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnalk and 30 of his pupils.
It’s all about endangered species and global warming, apparently.
Snow Buddha
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3,256 cubic meters of snow recently crafted into a 20m tall Buddha by ten sculptors over ten days in China’s Barkol County.
Bloemencorso is a spectacular annual parade of brilliantly imaginative, gravity-defying floats made from flowers (especially dahlias) at the small town of Zundert in the Netherlands.
The video shows the entire 2012 parade. It’s worth skipping through for a sense of the scale of the event.
Against a white background, the Kishu Collection by Maya Selway appears to be a series of minimalist sketches of everyday items.
In fact, it’s a (just about) functional set of trompe l’oeil sculptural forms crafted from oxidized copper – each piece carefully weighted to help it balance.
(Hat tip: Aaron McAllorum)
Sculptor Anthony Gormley’s public artwork ‘Another Place’ – one hundred 650kg cast iron figures installed along two miles of Merseyside’s Crosby Beach since the mid 2000s – recently captured by photographer Paul Sutton in particularly good light.
Many more pix here
The extraordinary mixed media ‘assemblages‘ of American artist Kris Kuksi – dark, fractal intricacies reminiscent of the work of HR Giger:
According to Kuksi’s artist statement :
Kris Kuksi garners recognition and acclaim for the intricate sculptures that result from his unique and meticulous technique. A process that requires countless hours to assemble, collect, manipulate, cut, and re-shape thousands of individual parts, finally uniting them into an orchestral-like seamless cohesion that defines the historical rise and fall of civilization and envisions the possible future(s) of humanity.
Kuksi’s work is currently exhibiting at the Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC
