Fine Design: Tom Price Tree Installation
Installation by Tom Price using plastic coffee cups and plastic gutter piping…. touch of genius I think….
Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is a classic enfant terrible of the Euro art world. From rings made out of a distorted Christ on the cross, to earrings of interlinked hip-bones… there’s few envelopes he’s not lining up to push.
However, there is nothing controversial about this piece of his work. It’s just plain old beautiful. Delvoye has taken a bunch of used truck, car and tractor tyres and carved intricate patterns across them….so friggin’ cool I think.
If only he did Vespa tyres…. That’d be the Loved-one’s Christmas present sorted…
Check out Delvoye’s pretty amazing interactive website… but vegetarians should shy away from the ‘Tattooed Stuffed Pigs’ section…
Richard Serra, Between the Torus and the Sphere, 2003-2005
(Source: arthistoryeveryday)
Nobody likes a broken heart, so we have constructed this one from durable borosilicate glass- the same kind of glass used in scientific labs. The jar is a completely sealed vacuum, and does not open. All components are worked by hand from glass. Heart “floats” in the middle of the jar with a discreet clear post sealed to the back.
(via: superpunch)
‘Host’ by John Grade
Seattle-based, but a highly intrepid traveler, the artist John Grade constantly explores the relationship between man and nature and also; beauty and cruelty in nature itself….I love the fact that this beautiful, delicate sculpture is entitled ‘host’ which in a human context would seem mild, but in a natural context takes on a parasitic quality, making the sculpture look suddenly quite vermine and less ‘pretty’… dig it…
More from the wonderful Claire Morgan…
A Part at the Seam, 2009
Exhibited at Life. Blood., Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
Down Time
I am completely smitten with Irish artist Claire Morgan’s work with suspended taxidermy… she does the most incredible sculptures showing animals surrounded by thousands of suspended inanimate objects…like this jackdaw in a swarm of strawberries…. this doesn’t even do her work justice.. I URGE you to go to her website and see more….Thanks to Kirstie for introducing me!
Picture: ‘DOWNTIME’, 2010, Taxidermy jackdaw, strawberries, bluebottles, fruit flies, lead, nylon, acrylic
Dimensions variable. The layer of strawberries grew from 2.5 x 2.5 m to around 2.5 x 5 m over the course of the 2-month exhibition
Exhibited as part of on&on at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Photo copyright CISZAK DALMAS TAMANGO - La Casa Encendida, 2010
This month Vivid Gallery in Rotterdam is hosting an exhibition entitled Cubics// Cubic Constructions in celebration of the work of Dutch design/art duo Jan Slothouber and William Graatsma. Having originally trained as architects, the pair were obsessed with the principles of cubic constructs and moved into product design before being chosen to represent the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 1970. I’ve been a fan for a while, but I am particularly fond of this shot in black in white as it makes the boy look as though he too is made out of concrete.
Pic: Slothouber & Graatsma, Venice Biennial 1970, Dutch pavillion
Tara Donovan at ACE GALLERY, Los Angeles
Artist Andy Vogt… master carpenter…
American photographer/artist Andy Vogt ’s work with salvaged wood is so beautiful it makes me stare all day… I wish everyone would use wasted resources with such artistry…what a superstar.
(Above) sustained decay (cone), 24” x 37” salvaged wood, 2009
Beneath the Monument, 107”x88”, 2007, salvaged wood
‘folded back’ 29” x 12” x 9” salvaged lath, plywood + acrylic. 2008
Barren Echelon, 21’x7, 2007, salvaged wood
half timbre - half tone, 21’x7’, 2008. salvaged lath, plywood, paint
- part of “kick out the jams” @ Luggage Store, SF
Introduced to me by the ever-brilliant All the Mountains
The non-billboard billboard
This installation ‘Non-Sign II’ absolutely takes my breath away. Situated between Blaine, Washington and the highway to Vancouver, it was created by Seattle based Lead Pencil Studio and commissioned by the US Government’s ‘Excellence in Design’ programme. Its beauty is in what it’s not; in what’s it’s not telling you. If only all advertising was like this London (and the rest of the developed world) would be a gentler place….
found at we heart
Photos by Ian Gill
