Go to Madison Square park and you’ll see 1.4 million feet of rope - the total length equating to nearly 20 times the length of Manhattan arranged and knotted into waves of bright colour. The installations by Orly Genger were covered in over 3,000 gallons of paint and apparently prompt visitors to interact within the park in a different way by creating newly defined spaces. An intriguing idea indeed!
We love a bit of paper art here, (although mind those paper cuts), so thought we’d share a few finds from Pinterest.
Shown from top to bottom, the clever creators are as follows:
Su Blackwell
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Brian Dettmer
Brian Dettmer
Stephen Doyle
Stephen Doyle
Jeff Nishinaka
Jeff Nishinaka
Shintaro Ohata’s work has a clever 3D and 2D amalgamation, using both painting and sculpture to create his unique works of art. His scenes are of everyday life, however his expressions of light make them look as though they are movie sets. The polystyrene collaged sculptures are perfectly in tune with their background, they must be wonderful to see in the flesh!
We love a bit of model-making here at Tidings & Things, particularly when it’s as well crafted and eye-catching as these micro machines by Dmitriy Khristenko. Khristenko creates all his wheeled machines using parts from wrist-watches, using straps to create tyres, glass from the front face as windshields, and…well you get the idea!
Anyone with a surplus of (Easter!) snow may feel like getting creative. These examples from a Pinterest collection of snow sculpture images show what you can do providing you have plenty of the white stuff and time on your hands. If you wish to travel with your new-found skills, you could always visit the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan or the Harbin Ice Festival in Northern China at which some of these sculptures were created. Or, just impress your neighbours by creating a snowball sculpture in your front garden.
These beautiful insect/robot sculptures are the creation of Insect Lab aka Mike Libby. Mike once found a dead beetle and noticed how its moving parts sort of resembled a mechanical structure, so he decided to combine the two. This is what he has to say about Robots and insects:
“Robot-like insects and insect-like robots are the stuff of science fiction and science fact.
Often in science fiction, insects are frequently featured as robotic critters. There are many examples in TV, movies, video games, comic books, even on album covers. From Cronos to The Golden Compass, the insect/robot archetype has been used, re-used and re-imagined countless times.”
We think they are beautiful despite being slightly gross, & they are definetely fuelling our Entomology obsession!
Check out these amazing pencil sculptures by Hungarian Artist and Sculptor Cerkahegyzo. Inspired by the work of Dalton Ghetti (see earlier post) he has created these impossible looking pencil sculptures using tiny tools such as sandpaper, needles and blades.
Paper – you can never predict what it will become in the end.
In a recent solo exhibition entitled, Pure White Paper, Li Hongbo, a Chinese artist displayed dozens of his sculptures, meticulously crafted from thousands of individual sheets of paper, glued together to create a a kind of ‘honeycomb’ structure that makes the sculptures entirely malleable and flexible.
Here’s some wonderful book art to celebrate World book day!
Emma Taylor mourns the demise of the printed book. She loves the feel of the book as an object and so she creates these amazing book sculptures. She carefully selects a book and turns the its words into a visual representation made from its actual pages. She works with wire, wadding and strips of book pages to create the impression of the sculpture emerging from within a book.
Kyle Bean makes beautiful hand crafted models, which have been used in installations, window displays, editorial illustration and advertising, both in the UK and internationally. His conceptual thinking and craftsmanship have gained him praise from people such as the Art Directors Club in New York and the International Design Biennial.
We wish we had the skills & ideas to make something like these!
