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Architect’s Eye by SPeeCH Tchoban & Kuznetsov

Ian — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:04:45 +0000

Sergei Tschoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, partners of the Moscow based architecture studio SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. As part of this year’s Interni Legacy event at the Università Statale in Milan,

A stainless steel sphere, completely smooth and reflecting, features an LED system to create the image of a huge human eyeball that rotates to look to the sky as well as at visitors, or at visitors, or at the ground, changing the color of the iris and the size of the pupil. Inside the eye, there are images of monuments of the Russian avant-garde, which now lie abandoned: a strong message about the need to conserve our history and cultural legacy.

Thanks to the reflecting effect of the steel, the sphere reproduces and deforms the image of the 18th-century courtyard, to symbolize the intellectual process of the architect who reads and interprets the extraordinary forms of the past. Technology, represented by the mobile effect of the eye, is the key word of the approach that sets apart the activities of Taltos, the partner in the installation: the company specializes in the making of large, very thin sheets of natural stone, reinforced by epoxy resins and supports in fiberglass, carbon or steel. The sheets are ideal for use on airplanes and ships, as refined coverings in interiors, or for countertops.

Cornelia Konrads’ Installations

Shan Tara — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:41:08 +0000

Artist Cornelia Konrads creates sculptures that blend with nature and defies gravity. She works with natural materials in a natural environment. Her work is frequently punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness, where stacked objects like logs, fences, and doorways appear to be suspended in mid-air, reinforcing their temporary nature as if the installation is beginning to dissolve before your very eyes.

Via [Colossal]

Portraits Made of Layers of Wire Mesh by Seung Mo Park

Shan Tara — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:21:55 +0000

Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park creates giant ephemeral portraits by cutting layer after layer of wire mesh. These sculptural masterpieces are part of Park’s latest series, called Maya. Each work begins with a photograph which is superimposed over layers of wire with a projector, then using a subtractive technique Park slowly snips away areas of mesh.

Maya is the third phase in a trajectory of Park’s conceptual works dealing with reality, illusion, and existence. Barely possessing materiality of sculpture, or the ideas within them, the idea and conceptualization of MAYA is far from tangible substances.

Via [This is Collosal]

Alicia Martin’s Biografias Installation

Shan Tara — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:23:28 +0000

The Spain-based artist’s sculptural installation at Casa de America, Madrid depicts a cavalcade of books streaming out of the side of a building. The whirlwind of literature defies gravity and draws attention with its size.

There have been three site-specific installations, thus far, of the massive sculptural works in this series known as Biografias, translated as Biographies, that each feature approximately 5,000 books sprawled out around and atop one another.The Spain-based artist’s sculptural installation at Casa de America, Madrid depicts a cavalcade of books streaming out of the side of a building. The whirlwind of literature defies gravity and draws attention with its grandeur size. There have been three site-specific installations, thus far, of the massive sculptural works in this series known as Biografias, translated as Biographies, that each feature approximately 5,000 books sprawled out around and atop one another.

Via [My Modern Met]

‘No Shadow,’ Sculptures Series Made of Lights Makoto Tojiki

Shan Tara — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:39:20 +0000

Makoto Tojiki works hundreds of optical fibres and LED lights, exploring its use in installations, figurative sculptures, as well as kinetic pieces. “No Shadow” series is inspired by the interconnectedness of light and shadow and how they can be manipulated and controlled. Tojiki begins his creative process by breaking down the light and the shadow to capture the essence of their symbiosis resulting in fleeting images that are as ephemeral and enigmatic as shadow itself.

“An object is seen when our eyes capture light that is reflected from the object. If we extract just the light that is reflected from ‘something,’ are we still in the presence of that ‘something?’ Using contours of light, I try to express this ‘something.”

Thishorse installation is part of his ‘No Shadow’ series and was commissioned for a window display for iconic luxury French fashion house, Hermes. The large 3D horse sculpture is made from strands of light and when set in dim interiors, appears as a solid structure from afar, a brightly lit shadow at a closer glance or a curtain of light from meters away. When the lights go on, the light installations disappear, leaving only a translucent outline of what was once there. The sculptures evoke an undeniable sense of awe and wonder and take on an almost magical like quality.

Makoto Tojiki is an artist and designer who uses light as his primary medium of expression.
Tojiki, a 1998 industrial design engineering graduate of Kinki University, devoted his personal time to experimenting with light while employed as an industrial designer.
In 2003, he launched his career as a full-time artist. Early on, Tojiki produced small works intended for production, but found this limiting and branched out into artistic images of objects constructed from light, as well as jewelry that involves light reflection, such as diamonds.

‘I.Rain,’ Light Installation by Thierry Gaugain

Shan Tara — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:01:55 +0000

Exhibited at the Maison & Objet 2012 show, ‘I.Rain’ by Thierry Gaugain is poetic installation created to bring us an atmosphere of Chill light rain, like in a magical world.

‘Floor,’ Installation by Do Ho Suh

Shan Tara — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:10:16 +0000

Korean Do Ho Suh has created this large sculptural installation made of thousands of multicolored miniature plastic figures with their heads and arms turned skyward carrying a glass plate. The plastic figures are holding the weight of the individual visitor who steps onto the floor.They represent the diverse and anonymous masses of people who support and resist the symbolic floor.

Bourrasque, Sculpture by Paul Cocksedge

Hans — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:52:58 +0000

London designer Paul Cocksedge completed a sculpture resembling pieces of paper caught in the breeze. Installed in the courtyard of a hotel in Lyon, the 25-meter long ‘Bourrasque’ sculpture was completed for the city’s annual Festival of Lights.

The 200 suspended sheets were made from an electrically conductive material that lights up when a current passes through it.Each sheet was the same size as a sheet of A3 paper and was moulded into shape by hand.

Photographs by Mark Cocksedge

Dice Sculptures by Tony Cragg

Shan Tara — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:24:38 +0000

British Artist Tony Cragg unveiled his latest dices sculptures at FIAC 2011 in Paris. All these fluides scupltures are made of thousands of dice glued one by one.

Awesome 33-Foot-Tall Lego Christmas Tree in London’s St. Pancras Station

Shan Tara — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:52:59 +0000

A giant Christmas tree made of LEGO has been revealed in London’s St Pancras International Station. Constructed by Titmarsh and Diment, the Xmas Tree is composed of 600,000 Lego bricks, 172 Lego branches, and 1,200 Lego decorations. It took two months to build and erect the tree, and organizers have planned special events like a treasure hunt competition to go along with the new spectacle.

‘Crouching Tiger Turtle Magic Mountain’ by Heike Mutter Ulrich Genth

Hans — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:43:42 +0000

It has taken eight weeks of intensive assembly work but the newest feature of the German landscape has been unveiled. The city of Duisberg is now home to Crouching Tiger and Turtle, which could easily be described as a roller coaster without a roller coaster!

It stands about eleven meters in height and is part of the city’s Capital of Culture project. Crouching Tiger and Turtle, Magic Mountain (to give it its full name) is a work by sculptors Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter.

The giant sculpture, situated in the Heinrich Hildebrand-heights is made from steel and zinc which establishes a link between itself and the park in which it is situated which once produced zinc before it was turned in to a recreational space.

Via Kuriositas

Forever Bicycles by Ai Weiwei

Ian — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:02:25 +0000

The installation will be part of “Ai Weiwei, Absent,” a collection of 21 works presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The exhibition contains 21 works from the dissident Chinese artist including photographs, sculptures, and installations.The exhibition is scheduled to run from October 29, 2011 to January 29, 2012 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and features 21sets of Ai’s works.

8-foot Geometric Light Sculpture Parmenides by Dev Harlan

Shan Tara — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:27:57 +0000

Dev Harlan – “Parmenides I”, 2011 from Dev Harlan on Vimeo.

Dev Harlan is a multidisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice combines the physical and the virtual with the use of sculpture, light and projection. As a self educated Artist, Designer and CG Director, Devan’s uniquely identifiable aesthetic language and reductionist approach place his work at the forefront of a new mode of media arts practice.
Via [Neatorama]

Watch Sculptures by Dominic Wilcox

Shan Tara — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:43:12 +0000

Artist Dominic Wilcox has created a series of miniature sculptures using a range of vintage watches, which have been customized with tiny figures to create unique animated scenes.

“The miniature figure on the second hand moves around constantly and the figure on the minute hand appears stationary. I spent time thinking about the relationship between the two people, how one passes another repeatedly and I tried to think about when that situation happens in real life or in an imagined scenario. I altered head and arm angles of found model figures and made objects such as the LCD tv with wire and plug. The glass domes are hand blown to fit each watch exactly.”

Plexus Series by Gabriel Dawe

Shan Tara — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:00:11 +0000

These massive ribbons of color are made from little more than thread, and from a short distance, the inventive installations seem to be floating. Gabriel Dawe is a young conceptual artist of Mexican origin who currently lives in Dallas – USA – where he is achieving his MFA in Arts and Technology at the University of Texas.

His South American roots give a great influence to his works, colours are bright and vivid, as in the Plexus project, a series of installations that we can define optical, made with threads, nails and wood in a triumph of joy for the eyes.The sewing thread, the main material composing Plexus, is to create garments to protect the body from the weather. Similarly, the architecture responds to that function.Gabriel takes the characteristic of the garment and creates an architecture, a structure that does not repair from the material needs but it makes something not_real that identifies and defines the intangible needs: essential to the survival of humanity.

A4 Paper Cuts by Peter Callesen

Shan Tara — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:26:13 +0000

Peter Callesen Copenhagen Danish artist works on installations cut from A4 sheets of 80g and tranform them into 3D form, leaving behind the negative space from which the form is created.

I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it is probably the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. My paper works have been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost a magic process – or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts.

Most recent I have started to make white paper cuts/sculptures inspired by fairytales and romanticism exploring the relationship between two and three dimensionality, between image and reality. I find the materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form as an almost magic process – or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is as well an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts.

Peter Callesen
Via [Recraft]

Picnic Table by Michael Beitz

Hans — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:49:06 +0000

New York artist Michael Beitz sent us photos of his latest creation, the‘ Picnic Table’. Michael was commissioned by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts to realise a this permanent installation on its front loading dock. This 10-foot-long outdoor picnic table seemingly overflows its space on a gallery terrace and drips down a railing to a level below.

The table was built from laminated poplar and marine epoxy.

‘Sleeper Cells’ by Suzanne Husky

Ian — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:03:21 +0000

Suzanne Husky is a Franco-American visual artist who’s graduated from the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts and has been living in the San Francisco Bay. She built small pods that seem to be cozy and quaint inside with a natural environment. Constructed of wood shakes and shingles with a hedgehog-like appearance, they are advertisements for a Thoreau-inspired lifestyle and a return to simplicity.

“what I want to highlight is the philosophical choice of living with almost nothing, and being happy with almost nothing. It’s the aesthetic of simplicity and poverty that I like to highlight as well. So that’s probably more the social aspect of globalization, or one of the choices of how to respond to globalization, more generally than just environmental crisis.”