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vvolare: “Minimum Monument” by brazilian artist Néle...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:52:13 +0300

“Minimum Monument” by brazilian artist Néle Azevedo, presented as part of the Festival of Queen’s in Belfast, Northern Ireland

likeafieldmouse: Mike Doyle - Abandoned Lego Houses (2011)

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:59:56 +0200

likeafieldmouse:

Mike Doyle - Abandoned Lego Houses (2011)

hifructosemag: Japanese-born artist Sayaka Ganz creates...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:03:10 +0200

hifructosemag:

Japanese-born artist Sayaka Ganz creates sculptures out of discarded plastics found in thrift stores, converting these unwanted materials into graceful imitations of natural beauty. For her Running series, Ganz created life-like horses in mid-gallop. “Japanese Shinto beliefs are such that all objects and organisms have spirits, and I was taught in kindergarten that objects that are discarded before their time weep at night inside the trash bin. This became a vivid image in my mind,” Ganz explained her interest in recycled materials. She collects multitudes of plastic objects, organizing them in dozens of color-sorted bins in her basement. She then decides what to make when she has enough of one color, referencing photographs of her chosen species to convey its distinct movements and characteristics. Take a look at some photos of her work below as well as a video of her process, images courtesy of Sayaka Ganz.

MORE: http://hifructose.com/2013/02/19/sayaka-ganz-graceful-sculptures-made-of-recycled-plastics/

hifructosemag: On March 16, Jason Freeny will debut a new...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:52:11 +0200

hifructosemag:

On March 16, Jason Freeny will debut a new series of surreal sculptures at 101/exhibit in Los Angeles for his solo show, “Choice Cuts.” As the morbid-sounding title suggests, Freeny’s new body of work investigates mortality with a series of works that imagine toys as biological beings. Exaggerated imitations of the human body — like the Barbie or Kewpie Doll — become vulnerable and prone to medical incisions that expose their entrails. Freeny’s new work is both shocking and humorous; cartoon smiles and gleaming eyes soften the impact of the sculptures’ visceral qualities. Take a look at our preview of the show courtesy of Jason Freeny.

MORE: http://hifructose.com/2013/02/15/preview-jason-freenys-choice-cuts-at-101exhibit/

Colombian artist Cesar del Valle has a characteristic way of...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:15:30 +0200

Colombian artist Cesar del Valle has a characteristic way of combining his often hyper realistic drawing with a certain amount of modification to whatever surface he is working on, so that it interacts with his subjects. De Valles human figures are depicted interacting, sometimes with the paper surface, sometimes with the room itself.

http://delvallecardona.blogspot.fi/

hifructosemag: We did a fantastic article in Hi-Fructose Vol.21...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:17:06 +0200

hifructosemag:

We did a fantastic article in Hi-Fructose Vol.21 on Katsuyo Aoki’s porcelain works. They are Amazingly ornate and powerful.

Pencil Art (by Jennifer Maestre)

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:42:03 +0200

Pencil Art (by Jennifer Maestre)

hifructosemag: actegratuit: Naoko Ito, Flora Ubiquitous,...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:40:46 +0200

hifructosemag:

actegratuit:

Naoko Ito, Flora

Ubiquitous, 2009

Nature divided and jarred.

gaksdesigns: Lazer-cut dollar bills by Scott Campbell

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:01:40 +0300

gaksdesigns:

Lazer-cut dollar bills by Scott Campbell

Kris Kuksi has been called as a post-insustrial Rococo master....

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:57:00 +0300

Dharma Bovine

The Plague Parad Opus 2

Tha Art of the Macabre 2

Caracan Assault Apparatus (2008)

The Palace of Hedonism

Kris Kuksi has been called as a post-insustrial Rococo master. His intricate and sculptures are the results of hours of collecting, manipulating, assembling and re-shaping thousands of small parts, using materials such as old toys like plastic soldiers or small model parts, miniature engine blocks and assorted debris.

The artist is critical to the greed and materialism in the world today, and wants his art to expose the fallacies of Man. His works challenge ideas of organized religion and morality and depict a challenge to understand, and bend, the limits of morality.

For more detail, visit his website at kuksi.com.

Miguel Endera: The making of "Hero"

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:55:32 +0300

Miguel Endera: The making of "Hero":

Beautiful video documenting the work progress behind Miguel Endera’s drawing “hero”, commemorating his father. “Hero” is hand drawn, and composed by about 3.2 million (!) ink dots.

The work of Maskull Lasserre explores the unexpected potential...

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:19:59 +0300

Murder 2012

Murder

Sonata Blade 2010

Sonata blade (performed)

Incarnate (three degrees of certaintyII)

Epiphany 2010

Secret carpentry 2011

The work of Maskull Lasserre explores the unexpected potential of the everyday, with elements of humor, nostalgia, accident and the macabre. Created in the most various of materials, his sculptures show strangeness in the familiar and uncertainty in the expected.

Glass artist Mika Aoki Glass as a material holds the conflicting...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:24:12 +0300

Fluctuation of Life 2010

Fluctuation of Life 2010

Syringe 2009

Her Songs Are Floating 2008

Her Songs Are Floating (detail)

Glass artist Mika Aoki

Glass as a material holds the conflicting qualities of solidity and fragility, as well as visible and invisible. Aoki’s beautiful and alien-looking work is often inspired by forms found in microscopic life, like spores or viruses. She calls it “Singing Glass”.

“I perfectly control the changing of the transparent material from solid into liquid, and again into solid, and at the same time, being controlled by this phenomenon, I converse and convey ‘time’.”

For more on Mika Aoki, visit http://www.sing-g.net.

Bethany Krull - Dominance and Affection The current work of...

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:07:00 +0300

Prize (2012)

Surrogate (2011)

Surrogate (detail)

Titan (2012)

Sweatered Sphinx (2011)

Bethany Krull - Dominance and Affection

The current work of Bethany Krull, Dominance and Affection, explores the duality that can be seen in how we relate to the rest of the natural world, and the wild animals we have turned into companions by genetically altering them into sweeter, less dangerous versions of themselves. In her work she wants to illustrate this contradiction between affection and absolute control.

“The success of the relationship lies in our complete domination over all aspects of their existence”.

Most works are made in porcelain, sometimes combined with other materials.

Bethany Krull has a beautiful website at http://bethanykrull.com.

The works of Paul Villinski, an artist cocerned with...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:36:00 +0300

"Paradigm" 2007

"Fable" 2011

"Fable" (detail)

"Muse" 2007

"Lament" 2001-2006

"Wreath" 2010

"Vessel (for Amelia)" (detail) 2010

"Diaspora" 2010

The works of Paul Villinski, an artist cocerned with environmental issues, will often feature repurposed discarded materials. Materials like gloves or beercans are transformed into quite poetic pieces, in metaphores of transformation. Metaphores of flight are also frequent in the works of this pilot of sailplanes and paragliders, and as a record collector Villinski has also re-used records. Before he alters each record with a saw, he listens to it - a kind of eulogy for what it represented before the alteration.

In the words of the artist himself:

(About the beercan butterflies:)”I am drawn to humble, yet evocative materials; in this case, crushed beer cans from the streets of New York - every one of them once raised to someone’s lips. My process of “recycling” them into images of butterflies is a quiet physical meditation, a yoga of tin snips and files and fingers.”

(About the gloves:) “They have qualities we fear coming to know: carelessly left behind, forgotten or discarded, weathered, damaged, exhausted and worn through, run over by life, homeless. Lost and found. So I bring them into the studio and into pieces and give them homes, with the others.”

danceabletragedy: Ceramic autopsy by Beccy Ridsdel

Mon, 28 May 2012 17:33:47 +0300

danceabletragedy:

Ceramic autopsy by Beccy Ridsdel

The art of Travis Louie

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:11:47 +0300

The art of Travis Louie

The salt installations of Motoi Yamamoto The works of Motoi...

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:58:51 +0300

Forest of Beyond (2011)

Sakura (2008)

Sakura (2008)

Labyrinth (2011) size: 3.2 x 11 m

Utusemi (2005) size: 7.5 x 2.5 m

The artist at work on Forest of Beyond

The salt installations of Motoi Yamamoto

The works of Motoi Yamamoto often take the forms of complicated labyrinths, ruined staircases or narrow tunnels. An important staring point was dealing with the death of his sister, in brain cancer. Salt, according to the artist, seems to possess a close relation with human life beyond time and space. In Japan, it ispart of the death culture. After the death of his sister, he began examining how death was dealt with in the present social realm.

“In the beginning, I was interested in the fact that salt is used in funerals or in its subtle transparency. But gradually I came to a point where the salt in my work might have been a part of some creature and supported their lives. Now I believe that salt enfolds the ﾒmemory of livesﾓ. I have thus had a special feeling since I started using it as a material.”

hifructosemag: Seung Mo Park uses giant swaths of stainless...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:27:44 +0300

hifructosemag:

Seung Mo Park uses giant swaths of stainless steal meshing to create his complex and stunning works of art. Beginning with a projected photograph Park slowly layers the wire meshing via cuts and welding until he arrives at a three dimensional sculpture of his subject. In his latest body of work these sculptures depict a woman from a dream Park had. The body of work is meant to convey a sense of illusion relating to the dream which is achieved from the sculpture’s three dimensionality causing the images to seem ethereal, flat or shadowy ethereal, flat or shadowy depending on where the viewer stands. - Zach Tutor

Kim Joon: fragile-flow blue (2011)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:26:20 +0300

Kim Joon: fragile-flow blue (2011)