3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
The Omote 3D Shashin Kan (“Shashin Kan” is translated “photo booth”) that produces miniature human replicas. A brainchild of Tokyo-New York creative company PARTY, Omote 3D is currently running a pop-up store in the hip Tokyo neighborhood of Harajuku, at the Eyre of Gyre shopping mall. Please read the full interview with Omote 3D founder Masashi Kawamura on Wallpaper*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POx6eWOr97I&feature=share
Stephen Shaheen is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores the porous borders between art, design and architecture. His work spans both manual and digital processes, and employs materials as diverse as repurposed found objects, marble, and recycled denim fiber.
Pakistani artist Khalil Chishtee uses grocery plastic bags and trash bags, to create these life-sized figural sculptures.
World renowned contemporary artist and mainly figurative sculptor Marc Quinn has a plenty of projects on personal website worth to see. One of his latest work - a real-sized Zombie Boy made a good media appearance. But his truly climax of the year 2012 happened at London 2012 Paralympics revealing a huge sculpture of "Alison Lapper Pregnant" previously sat on Plynth on Trafalgar Square.
Photos above are courtesy of PFER
Using figurative representation and geometric abstraction, Ted Lawson creates a narrative progression of forms that reveals something conceptually greater than the sum of their parts. His working process in an exploration into the human existential experience through imagined models of the universe as pure physical form.
Hand-carved wood sculptures by Morgan Herrin.
Seattle-based sculptor Dan Webb uses wood as a handy and plasticity material. Just take a look what can be done using wood carving
Portland based sculptor Peter Gronquist sits with "new surrealists" if speaking of labels but huge heads of bison, goats and other species, with their horns replaced with gilded weaponry and often delicately wrapped in floral ornamentation speak for themselves. Gronquist’s juxtaposition of death, nature and destruction calls forth many pertinent questions about humans’ relationship to the environment; the animal heads seems so real, yet so artificial and manipulated.
“Ceramic Speaks in the Street” is a series of street art by Russian artist Daria Makarenko where missing bricks or stones on a wall or panels absent from pavement are replaced by bricks/stones/slabs with thoughts and phrases. The idea was to take an architectural item from an urban space and replace it with something thought provoking that can communicate between the artist and the viewer.
The project’s pieces were located throughout the streets of Stockholm, Sweden from 2011-2012.
"Julián Cánovas-Yañez is a multidisciplinary and complete artist. He is, at the same time, film director, sculptor, painter, photographer and writer. Julian suggested time ago the idea of doing a portrait of him that could describe his capacity of creating and his constant search to understand his body and spirit. All these made Alejandro Maestre think about his work and helped him to develop the idea of this work. Therefore, with this photograph series he intend to show an artist fighting to get to know and shape himself and turn into a better human being." via defringe
These ghostly paper sculptures by Dutch artist Peter Gentenaar are absolutely stunning. The pieces pictured here are hung inside the abbey church of St. Riquier - a magnificent example of flamboyant Gothic architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries in France.
"The idea of this sculpture work comes from a personal experience of the artist, Yoan Capote, to push the teeth the effect of stress, but we can also consider this sculpture as a monument to the collective experience of stress in contemporary urban life." via sweetstation
London-based sculptor and illustrator Arran Gregory shares his latest works. His mirrored sculpture gained a good attention and has been exhibited among illustrations in few galleries in London this September.
Book seems to be a very flexible and meaningful material for modern sculptors but you need to have classic 99% of perspiration before you hit 1% of genius carving. Brian Dettmer did it well and host an awesome gallery of selected works on personal website http://briandettmer.com/
Interview
http://vimeo.com/25222103
Modern, hip pop art sculpture of Mauro Perucchetti plays around with obvious and well-known objects in topical and critical context.
"Tel Aviv-based artist Shay Aaron constructs incredible miniaturized food sculptures at 1:12 scale that look almost completely edible. You can see hundreds more photos on Flickr and he also makes miniature food jewelry which is available over on Etsy" writes This Is Colossal
Luca Ionescu did an awesome 3d sculpted model "Steady as She Goes" using the Rapid Prototyping SLS method. This piece was exhibited at "There Goes The Neighbourhood" Group Exhibition at The Tate, Sydney, Australia, a week ago.
Like Minded Studio / LMS™ is a Sydney based design studio. Designer Luca Ionescu's is renowned for his logo and typography work which has been documented in numerous publications and online
Barry X Ball is one hell of a sculptor who uses various types of marble and steel to create his works. Mr. Ball (if I may call him that) is currently based out of New York, USA, but originally hails from sunny Pasadena, California. His series, entitled “Masterpieces”, consist of recreated sculptural works after classic pieces of the Great Masters, such as Antonio Corradini, Josse de Corte, and the timeless Hermaphrodite Endormi (Ermafrodito Borghese) piece.
Controversial grotesquely molded sculptures by Kris Kuksi juxtapose two worlds of antique beauty and modern machinery. In personal reflection, he feels that much of mankind in the World today is elastic and fragile being driven primarily by greed and materialism. He hopes that through his art expose his audience to the awareness of the fallacies of Man. His work has received several awards and prizes and has been featured in over 100 exhibitions world wide as well as featured in international art magazines and fictional book covers.
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Young Russian sculptor Alexey Morosov held a solo exhibition in Russian Museum in Saint-Petersburg titled "Antologia" that included 48 of his works.
"The heroes that are marked by inspired beauty and imposing harmony seem to be protecting themselves from the threat of invisible aggressive force in the most part of presented works. The high skill of execution, natural combination of tradition and innovation, canonical and spontaneous helps Aleksey Morozov to discover the new possibilities of plastic language of the Antique Art and to emphasize the eternal significance of its humanistic ideals." was stated in museum's press release.
Morozov believes that European civilization must more often refer to the past, and revisit its positions towards allegory, myth and historical scenes in order to discover a new meaning. The art of Alexey Morozov proves that classical forms have not died, and that traditions andinnovations may well coexist.
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