Hyperrealistic tribute to Frida Kahlo by Kazuhiro Tsuji

December 03, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, TOP 2015, USA, 2015

Frida Kahlo, South America’s most famous woman artist best known for her numerous self-portraits, is portrayed once more as hyperrealist Kazuhiro Tsuji’s latest subject. Rendered with a heightened realism, Tsuji’s Frida is made of resin, platinum silicone, and other materials by the same technique that he once practiced as a special effects makeup artist. Find out more on artist's Facebook via Hi-Fructose

Soft Stone Sculptures by José Manuel Castro López

November 16, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain, TOP 2015, 2015

Spanish sculptor José Manuel Castro López creates surreal sculptures melt down by no reason. The material is stone what left us surprised and mesmerised by the way he played with the form. Check it out below or on sculptor's personal Facebook account

Paper Sculptures of Anna-Wili Highfield

November 05, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Australia, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2015, Art

Anna-Wili's sculptures (Instagram) are stitched together from archival cotton rag. Her works explore the organic qualities and resistance of paper, generating a tension between the complex realism of form and the limitations and economy of the materials used. They represent animal life in an immediate way that conveys the energy, movement and physical character of different creatures. Her aim is to engineer a moment of contact with nature in a way that emphasises both the startling differences and similarities of human and animal forms and consciousness.

Polymer clay flower sculptures by Angela Schwer

November 03, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Portfolios, Sculpture, TOP 2015, USA, 2015, Art

"Working from a tiny table in the nook of her living room, California-based artist Angela Schwer crafts explosive dahlias, gardenias, poppies, fungi, and sea creatures all from a custom blend of polymer clays. Meant primarily as decorative objects, the dense handmade pieces are surprisingly detailed, assembled from hundreds of perfectly formed clay pieces and formed into large tiles that can be hung from a wall or set on a table. You can see more in her online shop, Dilly Pad." via Colossal

Beth Cavener Sculptures

September 11, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, TOP 2015, USA, 2015

The sculptures of Beth Cavener focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalisation, and articulated through animal and human forms. Cavener wants to pry at those uncomfortable, awkward edges between animal and human. Entangled in their own internal and external struggles, the figures express frustration for the human tendency towards cruelty and lack of understanding

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Ceramic Sculptures by Haejin Lee

September 03, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Canada, Portfolios, Sculpture, South Korea, 2015

"Ceramicist Haejin Lee (Instagram) creates sculptures that seem to unravel before your eyes, ceramic forms that open and splay outwards to make vessels unusable and faces far more interesting. Utilizing minimal color Lee instead focuses on her shapeshifting creations, often incorporating human elements like eyes and mouths that sprout from the banded chaos."

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Heartbeat by Charles Petillon in Covent Garden, London

August 28, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in France, Sculpture, TOP 2015, United Kingdom, 2015

Yesterday, the 19th-century market building in London’s Covent Garden was transformed. French artist Charles Pétillon used twenty-five workers over five days to fill the building with 100,000 giant white balloons in an installation called “heartbeat.” The project is part of Covent Garden’s ongoing cultural program that strives to transform the district into an ever-changing art gallery, and will run until September 27th (as a part of London Design Festival).

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"Dismaland" park by Banksy

August 20, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Street Art, United Kingdom, 2015

Heavily rumoured large-scale street art installation initiated by Banksy opened this week in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK and named "Dismaland". Billed as a "family theme park unsuitable for children" and "a festival of art, amusements and entry-level anarchism," the street artist's latest project offers "an alternative to the sugar-coated tedium of the average family day out," according to the park's website. Dismaland features 10 new works by the famous provocateur, as well as the contributions of 57 other artists from around the world, including Damien Hirst, Brock Davis, Ben Long, and more.

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Pencil Sculptures by Jasenko Đorđević

August 12, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2015

Born in Tulza, Bosnia, Jasenko Đorđević uses an X-acto knife and tiny chisel to carve detailed pencil-tip sculptures. The result resembles something made from stone or charred wood. Đorđević was first inspired to carve pencils after seeing the work of Dalton Ghetti.

"Chained" Street Art by Edoardo Tresoldi and Gonzalo Borondo

August 11, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Italy, Sculpture, Street Art, TOP 2015, 2015

"This is a brilliant street art piece made by wire sculptor Edoardo Tresoldi and muralist Gonzalo Borondo. Titled “Chained,” also the name of the art event organized by gallery Wunderkammern who invited nine important urban artists to create outdoor installations in the city of Milan. An exhibition focused on the food chain, and how humans are part of this biological community and “only one of many elements in a chain dependent on the entire system.”

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Pocket-sized Life by Tatsuya Tanaka

August 07, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Instagram, Japan, Photography, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2015

Since 2011, Tatsuya Tanaka (Instagram) has been engaged in his “miniature calendar”, a project in which he created pocket-sized scene of everyday life, on a daily basis.

Sweet Ladies Adventures in SF by Camila Valdez

July 30, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Argentina, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2015, Art

Camila Valdez (Facebook) is a 30-year-old industrial designer and artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina who blends both of her professions to create hyper realistic leggy dessert sculptures in table-top and human scale size.

Her sculptures are inspired by the secret aesthetics of everyday products. Objects, in this case desserts, express their feelings to Camila through their colours, shapes and styles. She says “If a Cupcake is good looking eye-candy, it says come and get me!”

"Sweet Ladies" is her new series of human-sized figurative sculptures invading the streets and venues of San Francisco

Art of Niharika Hukku

July 27, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Australia, Instagram, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2015

“For me, to create form and function out of what is essentially mud was magical,” says Sydney-based artist Niharika Hukku (@niharikahukku). With a background in painting, Niharika started out her career as a commercial illustrator, but later decided to pivot into the field of pottery making. “I always felt a pull towards ceramics,” Niharika says. “I wanted to do something that was personal and organic.” via Instagram Blog

Macro art by Rómulo Celdrán

July 21, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain, TOP 2015, 2015

Artist Rómulo Celdrán turns everyday objects into oversized sculptures for his series 'Macro'. That is not a new concept in terms of postmodernism sculpture but he does it with a great passion to details and as he said "I believe there is something magic in the world of scales. There is a kind of emotional memory that invites us to feel the relationship with the Macro objects as if it were a game"

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Spaces by Material Immaterial

July 14, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, Design, Portfolios, Sculpture

The designers behind Material Immaterial studio, Nitin Barchha and Disney Davis, constructed miniature buildings to celebrate the beauty of concrete. These are miniature homes, which they call 'SPACES'. They are a collection of nine unique concrete pieces celebrating the amalgamation of space and volume that have sparked our senses as designers over the years. In honor of classic architecture, the designers say about their motivation behind the project: "Many of the best and most influential buildings of the last century are constructed with concrete, from Le-Corbusier's quintessentially modernist Villa Savoye, to Frank Lloyd Wright's spellbinding Falling water, and from Oscar Niemeyer's nation defining Brasilia, to Tadao Ando's exhilarating Church of the Light."

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Daniel Arsham art

July 10, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, TOP 2015, USA

"New York based artist Daniel Arsham (Instagram) straddles the line between art, architecture and performance. Architecture is a prevalent subject throughout his work; environments with eroded walls and stairs going nowhere, landscapes where nature overrides structures, and a general sense of playfulness within existing architecture. Arsham makes architecture do things it is not supposed to do, mining everyday experience for opportunities to confuse and confound our expectations of space and form. Simple yet paradoxical gestures dominate his sculptural work: a façade that appears to billow in the wind, a figure wrapped up in the surface of a wall, a contemporary object cast in volcanic ash as if it was found on some future archeological site." Read more on his website

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Jakub Geltner

July 07, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Photography, Sculpture, Czechia

Prague-based artist Jakub Geltner has been installing clusters of surveillance equipment in random places since 2011. See more images from the most recent seaside installation as well as a selection from Geltner’s Nests series below.

Pneumàtic Installation

July 03, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain

"Pneumàtic is a collaboration by Octavi Serra, Iago Buceta, and Mateu Targa for Ús Barcelona, an art festival dedicated to the revitalization of urban spaces." via

Watch Classical Sculptures Spring To Life Through The Magic Of Projection Mapping

June 30, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, France, Motioncollector, Sculpture, TOP 2015

Walk through any good art classical museum, and the statues can seem so real, it's almost as if they'll come to life if turn your back on them. At France's Lyon Museum of Fine Arts, for at least one night, that's exactly what happened.

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The museum asked artist Arnaud Pottier to bring sculptures, including Laurent Honore Marqueste's Perseus Slaying Medusa, James Pradier's Odalisque, and Barrias' Les Premières Funérailles, to life. His method was pretty simple: He used projection mapping, which can turn anything—including statues—into a display.

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Preview the "Golem x MBA" project on Behance

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