prosthetic knowledge
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im/materialising by Darren Harvey-Regan
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Geometric Sandcastles
A Flickr photoset showcasing the sand castles created by box builder:
TIME WELL SPENT I always have these ideas that I want to try but somehow in the attempt to get something done by the end of the day I turn towards my old standby solutions. I need to spend 6 weeks on the beach all at once. As it is I only get a day here and there and go whole years without building anything. If I could manage that I might get somewhere new.You can see much more here
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Mixing Digital Sculpture With Real Objects
Demonstration by Greg Petchkovsky on using current technology creatively, making objects designed on a computer to be placed in the real world. There are a couple more examples of this technique other than the one pictured above:
A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints from Greg Petchkovsky on Vimeo.
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Protecting Body Suit Series by Yoon Dujin (윤두진)
Ongoing sculpture series takes the clean naked porcelain human form, altered with cybernetic limbs - a take on our relationship with technology.
More at the Lee & Park Gallery here [Korean]
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Zinedine Zidan Statue Unveiled In Paris, Headbutting Another Player
Via BBC Sport:
A five-metre high statue of Zinedine Zidane’s famous headbutt on Marco Materazzi has been unveiled in Paris.
France captain Zidane was sent off in the 2006 World Cup final, which his team went on to lose on penalties, for headbutting Italy defender Materazzi.
The bronze statue, sculpted by Algerian artist Adel Abdesseme, is on display outside the Pompidou Centre in the French capital.
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Hwan Kwon Yi [이환권]
South Korean artist whose works play on the human form with eskewed perspective.
Currently has a show at the Gana Art Gallery, Busan - more here
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Taliban Hands by Joseph DeLappe
Sculpture based on 3D data from the Game ‘Medal Of Honor’, employing the hands of a Taliban fighter from the game. Note, the top image is a 3D printed version made this year, below are two hand made versions created for an exhibition last year.
The hands of a Taliban fighter, as depicted in the controversial Medal of Honor (Electronic Arts) shooter game. These sculptures were created through a complex process of 3D data extraction from the game for physical construction adapting Pepakura Designer for use with white corrugated plastic. These pieces were created while on residency in China in 2011 for a show at the Where Where Exhibition Space, Beijing.
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Lee Bul: From Me, Belongs To You
Large-scale solo exhibition which was on at Japan’s Mori Art Museum of one of Asia’s leading female artists. Her works are sculptural, with both natural and technological forms - looks interesting:
Since the 1990s, Lee Bul has built an international career as one of the leading contemporary artists from Asia. Her oeuvre is dominated by sculptures that demonstrate a mastery of materials and techniques, including her celebrated Cyborgs and Anagrams series, hybrid machine-and-organic forms referencing critical theory as well as dystopian cinematic worlds; karaoke “pods” that evoke space capsules for eternal sleep; and glittering, spectral gures and cityscapes that seem to be falling into ruin. For over twenty years, it could be said that Lee, whose practice has spanned her home country’s transition from military dictatorship to democracy, has been on a quest for an elusive something . the ultimate physical form perhaps, or the ideal society. While showcasing her major works in the four sections “Ephemeral Presence,” “Beyond Human,” “Utopia and Dreamscape” and “From Me, Belongs to You Only,” in the “Studio” section this exhibition will present the drawings and models that also form the font of her ideas. The subtitle “From Me, Belongs to You Only” is also a message from Lee: her attempt to find the “something” for which she is constantly searching in a personal relationship with each individual viewer. Come and experience that message for yourself in the spaces at “Lee Bul: From Me, Belongs to You Only.”
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PERSONA by Jeffery Wang
Fashion from Taiwanese graduate who has created dresses / sculptures from recycled denim jeans, held together simply with safety pins:
He stated the work as : “The main purpose of this project PERSONA was to use recycled denim jeans and create art pieces from it. In creating this project I think it was very important that we kept the “raw” personality of denim jeans and applying it like a sculpture so there was no cutting, sewing or any use of fashion technical skills. The only thing used to hold the jeans together were safety pins. In staying true to the shape and personality of denim jeans, even if we took it apart all the jeans still hold it’s original shape and can still be worn, a true recyclable project.”
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MAZE by Mabonona
Big neon circuit boards by Hangzhou-based artist - via neochaEDGE:
The word Maze has multiple meanings. Mabonona thought that “We are super relied on electronic products now, just like a disabled man rely on his fake leg.” However, ” We nearly know nothing about them”. He tended to show this contradiction and insecurity in the essence of the time, electronic chips. This complicated and surreal electronic “Maze” in front of us, reminds us to ask how much do we really know about the world we live in.
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Turbo Sculpture
A case study of 21st Century Postmodernism by Aleksandra Domanović.
Video photo essay with commentary looks at the after-effects of the wars in former Yugoslavia in relation to public art, where sculptures of world-famous celebrities and pop culture icons were constructed as opposed to local relevant figures.
Turbo Sculpture 2012 from A.D. on Vimeo.
From Space Studios:
The Political and economic turmoil of the early 1990s Yugoslavia rendered the society compliant enough for the concept of ‘turbo culture’ to gain momentum. With all its exaggerations, inordinateness and random amalgamations of both local and global ornamentation, turbo eventually became a prefix for social and media phenomena of the war and post-war period. As a result terms such as turbo politics, turbo television, turbo architecture and turbo urbanism developed…
- excerpt from Turbo Sculpture, Aleksandra Domanović, 2011
‘Turbo sculpture’ is an epiphenomenon of turbo culture. It refers to the depiction of popular non-national media celebrities in public sculpture projects across the former Yugoslavian nations. In recent years turbo sculpture monuments of Bruce Lee (Mostar, 2005), Rocky Balboa (Žitište, 2007), Johnny Weissmuller / Tarzan (Međa, 2007), Bob Marley (Banatski Sokolac, 2007) and Tupac Shakur (Belgrade, forthcoming) have been unveiled.
It is commonly argued that the rejection of the traditional regional/political context of civic monuments (leading to the turbo sculpture age) is a condition of the post-traumatic recalibration of identity and ideology that occurred following the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.The video (embedded above) is an updated version from the previous 2010 version.
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What Happened To Them? by Woo Sung Park
Lifelike Sculptures of comic-book superheroes past their prime. Yes, the Hulk is sitting on a toilet there …
Currently being shown at the Gallery Golmok in Seoul - More here [Korean]
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Lee Byung Ho
Artist creates sculptural-like works whose subjects age before you, transformed from young to old and back again.
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Wire Sculptures by David Oliveira
Sketch-like 3D sculptures made with wire - more here
