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Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea’s site-specific public art installation No Limits with gigantic architectural sculptures of some of New York’s iconic landmarks is now showing alongside Park Avenue Malls till June 9. These sculptures of Chrysler Building, Citicorp Center, Empire State Building, Flatiron building, Helmsley Building, MetLife Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, Seagram Building, Sherry [...]
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Japanese artist Kenji Yanobe often incorporates wearable sculptures into his work. Particularly with the multiple photography series under the Atom Suit Project, he explores a post-apocalyptic world centering around a humanoid figure clad snugly in a protective suit and headgear, standing out against the backdrop of Earth’s muted ruins. The mood is contagiously melancholic.
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Artist Oliver Paass has created these spray painted bowling balls, making them look like severed heads. It’s an obvious choice, really. The detailed 360 degree pieces of art were put into several German bowling alleys, no doubt horrifying and intriguing patrons in equal measure. After all, it’s not every day you put your fingers up [...]
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Wandering around the lovely city of Paris, street artist Levalet finds the best spots to glue, install and apply his art. He sees the street as his canvas and as a playground to have fun and to let others enjoy his great ideas. By always incorporating what the specific location offers him, all his pieces [...]
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English artist Tim Moore looks like a lumberjack and drinks beer on his patio. And this man’s man likes nothing more than a spot of embroidery. Moore’s bizarre and often rude embroidery, seen at Helen Gory gallery, is delicate and sticks closely to the naive style of his craft while depicting ice-skaters with their cocks [...]
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He draws beards, he draws animals, zombies, wacky characters, and then more beards again. He has a unique decorative illustration style combining crazy colours overlaid by intricate line work. Fluro highlighter is used with free abandon and he has been known to customise guitars and skateboards. This a Mulga the Artist, aka Joel Moore. His ethos is clear: ‘I [...]
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Phantasmagoria is a collaboration between illustrator, Annica Klingspor, photographer, Robert Nilsson, and stylist, Anna Klein. The result is a magical mix of photography and pencil drawings, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. The hyperreal, polished beauty shots contrast dramatically with the concrete, material nature of the pencil drawings. Phantasmagoria is currently showing at Scandic [...]
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Tom Eckert creates these unbelievable hyperrealistic sculptures out of, you guessed it, wood. He makes his art using traditional wood carving methods, and then he paints them to ensure maximum realism. Eckert’s wood sculptures take hyperrealism to a whole new level.
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Hungarian artist Csilla Klenyanszki has a childlike approach to making art that she says has her playing a game between fantasy and reality — which then ends in something quite unusual but familiar. Such as playing chess on a gingham-lined tablecloth. Or soaking a ear in a cereal bath over breakfast. Her images certainly infuse [...]
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How splendid is this? Mika Tsutai came up with these manga-inspired plates for his 2011 graduate project at Kyoto Institute of Technology. Complete with visual exclamations, these resemble Japanese manga frame panes. We’re sure these action-packed plates would make eating so darn fun. Too bad they don’t seem to be for sale.
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Well, we aren’t sure how to begin with these sculptures by Takahiro Komuro. Essentially human-like — with human limbs, feet and hands — they are decidedly alien all the same, whether with their possessed stares with dilated pupils, or, you know, monstrous heads or bulbous substances overtaking the rest of their bodies. So much poetic elegance about them, though.
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Sure, knitting often gets pooh-poohed as a granny pursuit all the time. Which probably makes Canada-based visual artist Candace Couse’s knitted corpses — with innards, organs and guts spilling out and loose red vein-like threads crawling out of them — all the more sweeter. She uses the idea of personal geographies to approach issues like orientation and identity that are profoundly detached from collective knowledge and public geographies.
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Helen Jones stunning charcoal drawings are explosively powerful and wonderfully crafted. They conjure space, light, power and serve as a stark reminder of the force of mother nature. Her piece, In The Wake, is so absorbing that you find yourself invited into the plume, however dangerous it looks.
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I was fortunate to attend a talk by Luke Jerram about his Sky Orchestra project, where he commissioned a musical composition to be played by a fleet of hot air balloons, flown low over cities in an attempt to ‘affect’ people as they stir in the early morning. Jerram is truly an innovator and other [...]
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Before images were manipulated with photoshop, America created images of ideal pin-up girl beauties with old fashioned paint and photography. These images reveal the behind-the-scenes techniques applied by famous pin-up girl painter Gil Elvgren. After a photo was taken, he would transform girls into perfect little dolls.
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