Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Awesome Video of the Day: Kumi Yamashita
As a bit of a followup to the previous post on shadow art, here is a video on Kumi Yamashita. Her work is incredibly innovative. After looking at the images and wondering how she made them, watching this video is quite insightful.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Shadow Art
It is time to up your game, shadow puppeteers. This morning presents you with some shadow art that will challenge your routine. The main artists featured here are Kumi Yamashita plus the art team Tim Noble and Sue Webster (who are responsible for the above image). Even if you’re afraid of your own shadow, don’t miss out on the goodies after the jump.
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Sayaka Kajita Ganz
Emergence, 2008
The sculptures of Sayaka Kajita Ganz are gorgeous. Made out of plastic utensils to hangers, these sculptures are done in such a way that they capture the movement of the animals in action. My favorite piece would have to be the sculptures with the running horses, “Emergence”. Her work is so dynamic and depicts such an agility out of something as unconventional as kitchen utensils. Sayaka was born in Japan and currently lives and works in Indiana.
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Brian Hunter
So this week I’m looking around to buy a new mattress, and it got me thinking about these pieces I saw a little while back by Canadian Brian Hunter. The images he renders fit the tone of the paintings so well, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen materials better suited for their subject matter. It’s always exciting when I encounter something I’ve never seen before that seems so completely obvious. The sleeping bag idea is simply genius!
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Alejandra Villasmil
Alejandra Villasmil is a Venezuelan artist who lives and works out of Santiago de Chile since 2007. I like the broad scope of work and use of absurd sculptural mediums.
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Baptiste Debombourg
This post goes out to all the 9-5ers stuck behind a desk, staring at the white office walls and pretending to be busy, whenever the boss walks by. If there was no boss to check up on you, what would you do inside that office? I see you looking at your nearest stapler. Baptiste Debombourg has lived out your fantasy. Baptiste created these large scale figures with over 35,000 staples. Now someone needs to follow in Baptiste’s footsteps and make a paper clip tapestry.
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Baptiste Debombourg
Baptiste Debombourg’s unique approach to medium and spacial presentation includes spending 75 hours pushing staples into a wall to create a “wall painting”, and UV-glueing shards of glass around an urban bus stop, with intention to “provoke some emotion or empathy”. He turns the scenario of each of his installation/sculptures from violent destruction to that of aesthetic appreciation.
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