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Krystopher Sapp takes antique gun parts and reassembles them into fanciful sculptures. This is “The Privateer,” and it looks the part. It’s made from the remains of a Savage, a M1 Garand, an ’03 Springfield, an AR-16 and a M-16. His exhibit, “When a Good Man Goes to War,” is on display at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles until January 29.
Link -via My Modern Met
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This great book sculpture and many more like it were completed by a completely anonymous artist who covertly installed them inside a variety of museums, libraries and other locations in Edinburgh, Scotland. While no one knows who is responsible, the artist did reveal herself as a woman in her farewell note. Check out the rest at the link.
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Although it looks convincingly like a pair of melting picture frames, it is actually a wooden sculpture. This is one of three in a series by artists Rémy Clémente and Morgan Maccari dribbling on a gallery floor.
Link -via Technabob | Artists’ Website
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This lovely sculpture by artist Tomoo Yamaji changes from a dragon to a ring of flowers without removing any parts. He presents it as a spiritual companion:
When we are threatened by evil, “it” will appear before us in the form of the dragon and prevent the evil with its fierce face and roar then bring peace to us. After that, “it” will transform into the form of the flower to continue quietly watching our peaceful life. However, we must remember that “it” will not always be on our side. Once we will be evil and bring the disaster, “it” will transform from flower into dragon and mercilessly attack us with its overwhelming power to prevent us.
Link (Google Translate) -via Super Punch | Photo: Henge
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The late Belgian artist Tom Frantzen erected this playful outdoor sculpture in Brussels. De Vaartkapoen shows a man emerging from a manhole to trip a police officer passing by. The cop wears the badge number 15, just like Officer 15 from Hergé’s Tintin comics.
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Michael Beitz is quite skilled at turning ordinary objects into otherworldly art pieces. While my personal favorite is this great jointed tree, there are plenty more amazing objects at the link.
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Comments Off Skip ahead about a minute into the video to see this amazing work in action. David Cerny, an artist from the Czech Republic, made this 14-ton sculpture for a business park in Charlotte, North Carolina. Its segments spin, align, and spit out streams of water.
Link -via The Presurfer | Artist’s Website (warning: auto-sound)
Yes, the stones have been laughing at you. No one else believes you, but I do. Look, that one is doing it right now!
Link -via Spoon & Tamago | Sculpture and photo by Hirotoshi Ito
It looks like a pretty but not extraordinary illustration, right? Keep scrolling.
It’s actually a series of sheets of bullet-proof glass suspended so that they look like a face when viewed from the right angle. Michael Murphy assembled this sculpture. This and other works by him are on display at gallery nine5 in New York City.
You can find this amusing sculpture by Miquel Barceló in Union Square in New York City. It stands 26 feet tall and weighs 7 tons. Why an elephant, let alone one in this position? The artist explained, “A tree looks like an upside-down elephant, and when you touch a tree, it feels like the skin of an elephant.”
Link -via My Modern Met | Photo: Marlborough Gallery
Previously by Miquel Barceló: The UN’s New Grotto
In gratitude for the attention that redditors had given to his work, the artist Zac Max let them decide what should be the subject of his next sculpture. Appropriately, they chose a bear with chainsaws for arms.
There’s a lot of money being spent on research for prosthetic arms. Perhaps an easier solution would be to give people chainsaw arms. Oh, on some occasions chainsaw arms would not be practical. But at other times, they would be essential.
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Beautiful paper sculptures are being left around Scotland’s libraries as a token of appreciation. The artist’s M.O.? Puns, Twitter shout outs, and complete anonymity.
Link -via Boing Boing | Photo Credit chrisdonia
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Etsy seller Creaturesfromel creates one of a kind animals from wire, clay and paint. The results are stunning and certainly worth a look.
I don’t know about you guys, but I am fascinated by sand sculptures. It’s just amazing that people put so much time and effort into creating something beautiful but extremely temporary. That’s why these photos from the World Championship of Sand Sculpting are so great -it’s a way to actually make these works of art last forever.
This is a bronze sculpture by Sukhi Barber. That is possible to make such an object self-supporting is mind-blowing.
One of Barber’s major themes is “the transcendence of our limiting view of a solid reality.” So, appropriately, this sculpture is entitled “Appearance/Emptiness.”
Artist’s Website -via Colossal
Using hundreds of tiny wooden blocks artist Shawn Smith is creating “8-bit” sculptures. At a time when retro 8-bit anything is extremely popular these sculptures take this motif and apply it to every day objects and animals. See the full gallery at the link.
A Korean artist named Chan Girl Park creates sculptures out of steel cross-sections of his subject matter. Each assembly is held together with perpendicular rods. He also welds steel nuts together to form smooth surfaces for figure studies. You can view a Korean-language description of his work at the link, or a gallery of some of his finer works at Colossal. Link (Google Translate) -via Colossal | Photo: Monthly Art World
We’ve all seen the occasional origami made from dollar bills, but those have nothing on these 32 amazing artworks made from currencies around the world. Personally, I like the carved sculptures like the one in the top center of the photo montage above.
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Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre carves human skeletal features into ordinary wooden implements. He can make an axe handle look like a human spine or give teeth to a picture frame. This rather haunting human skull is carved directly into a display cabinet. Link -via Colossal
Jaume Plensa, an artist from Spain, has a motif of monumental, rounded heads. He uses a wide variety of materials, from polyester resin to stainless steel. Pictured above is one of a pair resting in the countryside, looking at each other. You can see other images of them at Fubiz. They’re oddly soothing to look. Artist’s Website -via Fubiz (Google Translate)
I know you Neatonauts love to argue about what is or isn’t art, so these cool art installations are a great subject for debate. From a bloody phone booth by Banksy to Mark Jenkins’ surreal sculptures, there’s sure to be something for everyone in this WebUrbanist article.
Japanese artist Motohiko Odani makes gloriously fluid sculptures. I can’t quite figure out what material he uses.
This unicorn sculpture lies at the center of an exhibit of his work called “Phantom Limb” at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. This Is Colossal has other photos from the show.
Link via Dude Craft | Artist’s Website | Photo: Mori Art Museum
Ben Butler sculpts and assembles deliciously shaped wooden sculptures, such as the above cedar piece entitled “Furrow”. He has an exhibit that opens tomorrow at the Zg Gallery in Chicago.
Link via Dude Craft | Gallery Website
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Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin makes furniture from old naval mines found off the coast of his homeland:
Northern coast of Estonia and especially the islands, wich during the years of occupation were an almost inaccessible border zone for the common including heaps of corroded mine shells, wich are basically spheres with holes, spireks and shackles.[...]
Karmin uses mines as modules. The entire furinture series is composed of only two existing basic forms of mines – the hemisphere and the cylinder. With great delight, he has concocted utility articles of diverse forms, resulting in armchairs, writing desk, bed, toilet, cupoard, bathtub, swing, fireplace…By the hand of the artist the militaristic metallic scrap has become the design furinture of remarkably modern appearance.
Link via Nerdcore | Photo: Marine Mine
Etsy seller ArtAkimbo created a sculpture that looks like a tentacle entering the room through a porthole. It’s made from wood, styrofoam, newsprint, and sawdust. At the link, you can see pictures of what it would look like in a well-furnished office or bedroom.
Link via technabob | Artist’s Blog
“Boxel” is a sculpture created by architecture students at the University of Applied Sciences in Detmold, Germany. It’s built out of more than 2,000 empty beer boxes:
the temporary construction was designed using parametric software to control the position of the boxes in relation to the overall geometry and to analyze the structural performance. in order to define the construction concept and the detailing of the connection several static load tests were made to understand the structural behaviour of the unusual building material, especially since the empty beer boxes were not stacked onto but freely organized next to each other. in parallel to a series of shearing and bending tests in the university’s laboratory of material research the structural concept was simulated and optimized using fem-software.
Link via DudeCraft | Photo: Dirk Schelpmeier and Marcus Brehm
Bill McHugh creates kinetic sculptures that are driven by natural forces like wind, sun, water, squirrels or even birds!
Keeping the sculptures running literally costs peanuts — or birdseed, as the case may be. The Swirl-a-Squirrel runs on 30 peanuts a day, McHugh estimates. All combined, he figures he goes through 2,000 peanuts per week, or a 50-pound bag every three weeks.
But as he has refined them, he has also incorporated other elements. The bird-oriented one he calls “The Hitchcock” works this way: as many as 32 birds can land on the tiny metal cups that are spaced around a wheel. If they do, that sets a second wheel in motion; on it, other cups dip into a reservoir of water at the bottom and are carried up until they empty into a basin at the top. Then the water trickles down into the bottom reservoir and the process begins again.
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Being raised in sunny San Diego, I never even got to build a snowman before. That’s why I find snow sculptures to be purely impossible and amazing. Even if you’ve grown up in the harshest winters around though, you’re still certain to be impressed with these detailed snow sculptures on Web Urbanist.
Australian artist James Corbett began sculpting old car parts in 1999 while managing a car recycling business in Brisbane. Eighteen months later, he closed the shop and turned pro. Corbett never bends the parts, but uses the existing shapes to create (comparatively) realistic forms. Gallery at the link.
Link via DudeCraft | Artist’s Website | Image: James Corbett
These cool sculptures are made during an annual event called Canstruction. Teams of engineers, architects and students get together to make their inspired creations using canned food. After the public exposition of the artworks, the food is donated to local food banks and shelters.
Link Image Via Canstruction
