Surreal elongated sculptures by Philadelphia art-duo The Dufala Brothers.
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Wire sculptures by British artist Candice Bees, whose early training as an illustrator lends her creations the bold, gestural lines of pencil sketches.
Make A Wish
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Improbable Worlds: an antique piano almost bisected but for one remaining wishbone of wood connecting the two halves. How artist Maskull Lasserre did it – considering the fragility of the wishbone and the weight of the piano – is anyone’s guess.
Very carefully, we’d hazard.
More of his work here.
Floating Garden and Labyrinth – two large scale salt sculptures by Motoi Yamamoto, meticulously hand poured and arranged on the floor of the 13th century French castle of Aigues Mortes.
Previously: Curing With Salt
Kafkaesque
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A twisting reflective kinetic sculpture of the head of legendary surrealist writer Franz Kafka located at a busy shopping mall in Prague.
Created in 2014 by Czech artist David Cerny, the 45 tonne piece consists of 42 individually driven stainless steel elements.
Gnarly.
Strandhill, Co Sligo last year (top) and tonight (above).
Denise Rushe writes:
Did the weather do it or did someone steal the public art piece from Strandhill beach front?
The wily winds of the Wild Atlantic way?
A criminal surfing gang stealing abstract sculpture to order?
We may never know, bro.
Bottom pic via The Strand Bar (Facebook)
Photographer Patrick Joust’s images of 40 gigantic, 3 tonne busts of American presidents mouldering away in a field on a private farm in Virginia.
Originally commissioned as the centerpiece of Presidents Park – a ten acre site in Williamsburg opened in 2004 and shut six years later on foot of poor attendance.
Redolent of similarly apocalyptic symbols of human folly and simian demagoguery seen, for example, in Planet of The Apes.
Or Donald Trump’s campaign.
More here.
READ ON: How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field (Smithsonian)
Three recent unveiled gigantic kinetic sculptures by Utah artist Anthony Howe entitled Di-Octo, In Cloud Light III, and Switchback.
Despite the smooth elegance of their movement, each wind powered structure (lab tested before being installed outdoors) weighs nearly three quarters of a tonne.
More of his work here.
Neon Rooms
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Large scale, site-specific minimalist works by Italian artist Massimo Uberti who uses neon tubes and transformers to create what he calls ‘architectures of light’.