Blown Art Glass by Robert Kaindl
Robert Kaindl Signature Collection of Premium Custom Blown Art Glass is modern and deeply classic at once. The artisan uses the Murano (Italy) glass blowing techniques to shape his very own edgy sculptures.
Gummy Bear Art
In the making of art with food, the Gummy Bears are in the place. This Light Chandelier by Jellio looks so yummy with his 5000… acrylic Gummy Bears.
Another work with the same candies is Yaya Chou’s Gummy Bear Series: luxury commodities shapes made of embellished snacks.
Wooden Animals by Mio Hashimoto
Hand made Wooden Animals by Mio Hashimoto are meant to be your child’s best friend for the next year. Originals and crazy.
“Infinite Hope,” Swarovski Crystal Jesus Christ by Quinn Gregory
Called Infinite Hope and made by Quinn Gregory this sculpture has exactly the size of Jesus, (5’3”). It is primarily made of wood, foam and 250,000 Swarovski crystals. The sculpture took 4 ½ months to take shape of 5’3” skeleton in copper and then painting the same in metallic paint to give a metal look while avoiding the weight of a metal sculpture.
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Chewing Gum Sculptures by Maurizio Savini
Maurizio Savini’s intricate works are created using thousands of pieces of the bright pink gum, and have sold for as much as £40,000 each. The creations includes life-size buffalo, a grizzly bear and suited businessmen suspended in gymnastic poses. Savini, 39 hails from Rome and has used the unusual material locally known as ‘American gum’ after it was introduced in the the country during the World War II.
The unique sculptures has been displayed all over the world in cities like London, Edinburgh, Rome and Berlin, where they have been sold for great prices.
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Glowing Specimen Panel Series by Steffen Dam
The glowing Specimen Panel series created by Danish toolmaker Steffen Dam. Steffen Dam is a disciplined master craftsman whose plants and invertebrates are beautifully executed and display an impressive material credibility. This is a notable technical achievement and merits admiration, but the greater question is once Steffen’s pseudo-specimens attract us, what do they have to tell us? Dam’s glass panels and jars contain alter-nature specimens of his imaginary universe. Through them he forges a path not necessarily to a new world but to a new perception of the one which surrounds us.
Ivan Navarro, “Die”
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Iván Navarro. An exhibition of Navarro’s new sculpture “Die,” (2009) will take place from December 10-December 23, 2009 at 511 W. 27th Street.
Iván Navarro’s work, constructed mainly out of fluorescent tubing and electrical materials, transmits social and political commentary in a functional, complex and visually stunning sculptural format.
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Button and Pin Art by Ran Hwang
Ran Hwang created amazing button and pin art by sticking pins through buttons thousands of times, and then organizes them into the shape of a massive bird on a wall. Each image requires the hammering of thousands of pins with buttons into a wall. No glue is used. The buttons can move or fall at any time. However, the work is only completed after the bird is surrounded, naturally, by a cage.
“My immense wall installations are extremely time consuming and repetitive manual work,” says Hwang. “This is a form of meditative practice that helps me find my inner peace. Pins are used to hold buttons onto the surface to form a silhouetted image, or to disintegrate such image. No adhesive is used so the buttons are free to stay and move, which implies the genetic human tendency to be irresolute. I use buttons because they are common and ordinary, like the existence of human beings”.
Papercraft Self Portrait by Eric Testroete
This Papercraft Self Portrait was Eric Testroete his Halloween costume last weekend. Eric is a 3D artist in the Vancouver game industry and he was inspired by the big-head mode seen in videogames.
“Monument to the Unknown Washerwoman” by Pravdoliub Ivanov
Here’s a whimsical art installation titled Monument to the Unknown Washerwoman by Bulgarian artist Pravdoliub Ivanov.
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“The Wind Brought Us the Crisis” by Luzinterruptus
Luzinterruptus’s focus is on the global economic crisis and the appropriate venue is the steps of the Madrid Stock Exchange. The group used the financial pages from influential newspapers to create a light installation at a spot they believe the virus began to spread, as though borne by the wind.
“Reach for the Moon” by Mike Mak
Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, which is on the fifteenth day of the first month on the Chinese lunar calendar. It makes the first major festival after the Chinese New Year and people can see the full moon in the sky during the night. This beautiful ladder uses the character of Chinese calligraphy 「月」as a concept, maybe we could see the full moon when you climbing up onto the top.
Fluid Sculpture by Charlie Bucket
Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.
This sculpture is a prototype for one that Charlie Bucket will demonstrate at Maker’s Faire 2009, San Mateo later this month.
Charlie Bucket used a small loom to knit a tube from plastic tubing and then he set it up with a system that allowed him to push colorful fluids through the tubing.
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Pigeon Feather Art by Kate MccGwire
The London-based artist graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 used thousands of discarded pigeon feathers to create amazing works of art.
Corner Forest by Yuken Teruya
Yuken Teruya creates enchanting dioramas within products made from paper such as a take-out bag or the cardboard tube inside a toilet paper role. Carving detailed, miniature trees in each, Teruya makes fragile, magical sculptures about nature, craft, and consumerism.
Yuken Teruya is adept at transforming objects using very modest, intimately-scaled gestures. In Notice Forest, the artist subtly draws our attention to the effects of consumerism and globalism — alluding to the depletion of fragile natural resources, the disappearance of cultural traditions and identities, and the distribution of wealth in the new world order. Working with discarded paper bags from takeout joints such as McDonald’s and Krispy Kreme, commercial gift bags and post office packages, Teruya creates delicately rendered shadowboxes in which the sculptural form cut out from the container is shaped by the container itself. Using photography as the starting point, Teruya photographs trees he encounters in his daily life and then painstakingly recreates the form of the individual trees as paper cutouts that are suspended inside the bags. Light filters down through the holes to illuminate the tiny tree within each bag’s miniature interior landscape in what the Teruya describes as his attempt to return a spent consumer product back to the forest.
Clouds by Ronan and Erwin Bouroullec for Kvadrat
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed for textile manufacturers Kvadrat a modular room-dividing system.
It consists of textile pieces held together with elastic bands to make free-standing or hanging structures, which can be used to divide space and absorb sound. The project is a continuation of North Tiles, designed in 2006 by the Bouroullec brothers for Kvadrat’s Stockholm showroom.
Green Void by LAVA
Architects LAVA have created an installation called Green Void in the central atrium of Customs House in Sydney, Australia.
The lightweight Lycra sculpture hovers within the Customs House atrium, taking in Café Sydney’s top floor position stretching to the model of Sydney incased in the glass floor at ground level. The translucent fabric allows ample amounts of sunlight through from the atrium some 5 floors above creating a surreal experience as the surroundings take on a lime green glow. At night the structure is illuminated to take on the look of lava bubbling up from a volcano.
Colorful Crayon Sculptures by Herb Williams
Herb Williams use crayons in a different way: he creates whimsical sculptures out of crayon sticks!
He describes his process on his website, says that he is the” only individual in the world with an account with Crayola.” Williams cuts his colors packed 3000 to a case. He cuts down the sticks and then bonda the paper, not the wax, to a form he has either carved or cast.
The colorful Yellow Lab shown above is made of cut yellow and blue crayons, wood and two-part epoxy resin. It measures 42″ x 19″ x 28″ and is for sale for $18,000 through Vivre where you can also find several other of his playful pop pieces.