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]]>Since the early 2010s, Caillard has been creating impressive marble sculptures that represent an unusual blend of past and present. While the sculptures are made in the Greco-Roman style, they don’t have features that fit the period. Instead, the subjects are donning long beards, sunglasses, and scarves, visually embracing the hipster culture.
The influence of hipster culture on Caillard’s works is visible in his several projects, including Hipster in Stone and Hipster Sculptures. The former included dressing the sculptures, including works of classical artists, into fashionable clothes. The latter sees Caillard creating busts in bronze that capture the hipster look in the most unusual ways.
“In order to imagine a new society, richer in meaning and beauty, it is essential to look to our Greco-Roman roots for new inspiration,” Caillard explains.
Caillard had solo exhibits across France while also being part of group exhibits in museums in Belgium, Switzerland, and the United States. He also frequently shares his newest creations on Instagram. Check out more of them below.
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]]>Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Little trained at Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, CA, the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, and Adam State University, Alamosa, CO, with her practices including sculpting, drawing, and painting. But it’s her vessels that first caught our attention. Shaped like pillars or cylindrical vases, they are carved with decorative naive iconography that seems out of place and out of time.
According to Litte, the decorative carving of these surfaces is very much dictated by the materials themselves. Using clay that is hand-mixed in California, she incorporates foreign substances that create a distinctive surface. Little then carves directly into this clay while it is still wet and inlays additional materials that include porcelain, common gravel, and clinker bricks.
“A lot of the materials are really specific to place,” she explained in an interview with Art of Choice, “the gravel embedded in the surfaces is from the yard, the porcelain is one of his formulations, and the bricks are salvaged clinker bricks that are from the immediate area and reference the history of the arts and craft movement in Pasadena.”
Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. Scroll down to see some highlights.
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]]>“I am interested in exploring the fluidity of water against the firm resistance of hard rock,” explained Shearing on her website. She notes that she is particularly fascinated by the movement of the ocean waves expressing the rhythm of life and the force and strength of nature.
But though her work is in direct dialogue with her natural surroundings, it isn’t meant to be representational or realistic. “My mission is to explore the emotional symbolism of something like a broken egg in a nest,” says Shearing. “This for me represents the tension between birth and death, the purity of simple form in contrast with nature’s complex structures and designs. The fragility of the shell which can beak and shatter versus its strength to encompass life and growth.”
With a background both in sculpture and painting, her creative process includes mixing minute amounts of paint to get the exact tone and intensity of colors she wants. “I work very carefully, thoughtfully considering composition and juxtaposition of tones and colors,” she notes. “I spend time choosing my palette very carefully as this is the platform from which I build the timbre and mood of the piece.”
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]]>According to Luka, his unique style, a hybrid between constructivism and neo-plasticism, is very much the result of his background in architecture. With it, he aims to tell a story and evoke a situation or a vision, in an entirely unusual and original way.
“My works are like an everyday diary,” he told Another Fine Mess. “A chronicle of what I see around me, around my friends.” He also describes his art as a puzzle. “People try to find different recognizable shapes that are mixed with abstract geometry,” he notes. “It could be anything, a man walking with his dog, or a large family waiting for their lunch.”
Each piece begins with a sketch on paper. Once the sketch is done, Luka chooses the technique he prefers for realizing his idea. “There is always a story to be found in my works,” he says. “I try to show typical situations from a different angle.”
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]]>Fagerås’ latest series named Down features a number of pillow sculptures that look so nice and cozy in spite of the fact they’re sculpted from marble. This is exactly what the artist wanted to show with his artwork–that looks can be deceiving and even the material such as marble can look soft and fragile.
“Because of the material qualities of marble itself, it appears fragile. It’s quite fragile, but it’s not that fragile, and yet it appears so because of the translucency and pureness of the stone,” the artist said in an interview with Sculpture Atelier. “The common denominator of most of my art is fragility and vulnerability,” he added.
Rather than creating simple items, Fagerås says his art is more about creating an atmosphere or sensation. And most people associate pillows with strong emotions, both happy and sad.
Check out these fluffy sculptures in the pictures below.
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]]>“One of the reasons I am attracted by cardboard is that, although it can be an expensive material, people fail to notice it and just throw it away when buying an object, often slightly irritated at the thought of having to dispose of it,” explains Gilmour on his personal website.
“There is a widespread idea of having to leave our mark, of expressing our personality by buying this or that object that will best convey our originality. Almost as if the consumer society had transformed even our personalities into something you can buy.”
Not one to shy from a good challenge, Gilmour explored the many ways in which cardboard can be used as a basis to his artwork, tying his work with his ethical philosophy and educational projects. “Cardboard is cheap and easy to find, and using simple tools and techniques it is possible to make almost anything,” he states.
With no added supporting structure of either wood or metal, the finished sculptures challenge our ideas about cardboard, most often thought of as light, weak, and uninspiring materials, meant to be used and thrown away. As such, his work can also be understood as a critique of our consumeristic nature and as a metaphor for transience and impermanence.
Whatever the case is, the result is pretty remarkable.
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While the basis of her work is books, the creative process involves a natural process of crystallization, which is created using a supersaturated solution of Borax in boiling water. Placing the book in the saturated solution when hot, allows Arnold to manipulate the book to her liking. As the saturated water cools again, the molecules shrink and any excess Borax crystallizes.
The results are crystallized books that look nothing short of mesmerizing, reminiscent of mystifying objects one might find at the bottom of the ocean in a fairytale landscape. “The crystals remove the text and transform the books into aesthetic, non-functional objects,” relayed Arnold in an interview with Redefine Magazine. “The books, now frozen with heavy crystal growth, have become artifacts or geologic specimens laden with the history of time, use, and nostalgia.”
She points out that stories often exist in our memories while a book remains a spine on a shelf. “I love how just seeing a book can conjure the story contained within,” says Arnold. “With the addition of the crystal growth, the story within the book remains in memory, but new stories can be created by viewers as well.”
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]]>According to the Peled, her creative process is consistent with the Kabbalah concepts of Shevirah (breaking) and Tikkun (mending) which can also be considered as a renewal. “I make, then break, then make again,” she shared with CFile. “Chaos, destruction, and decay are intense and necessary creative process for me to create each of my sculptures.”
This process includes producing the ceramic shards herself, using a slab roller. “I make sheets of clay, fire them, and smash them into pieces with a hammer,” she explained. “I love playing with the idea of the texture and the form can look airy, delicate, light and fluffy and to give a sense of flutter, as if my breath would break it. Yet, the hard and sharp shards can be seen as round and moving, and give a sense of softness.”
Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues like Sotheby’s, Saatchi Gallery (London), and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City); and has also been featured in top tier publications like Vogue, O Magazine, and Elle. But you can also follow her creative journey on Instagram.
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]]>“I see in wire mesh poetics the depiction of a mental projection or, when related to history, the representation of what used to exist but is no longer there,” Tresoldi told Designboom. “Through transparency, I’m also able to keep a direct link with the environment and to establish a new kind of immersive experience for visitors.”
Cited by Forbes among the 30 most influential European artists under 30, Tresoldi’s structures have been featured in public spaces, archaeological contexts, contemporary art, and music festivals, as well as group shows.
“I deeply feel the charm of places and I recognize their expressive potential,” he explained. “My main interest is the relationship between the different elements of the landscape and how contemporary languages dialogue with each other, building its emotional structure. I always spend the right time studying and understanding the characteristics of the site, which become constituent parts of the work.”
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]]>His unconventional style of sculpting incorporates mechanical objects and high-tech materials to produce astonishingly beautiful representations, which he nicknames “Mechanations.”
Having received no formal training in the arts, it wasn’t until his thirties that Peralta found his creative voice. “In 2005, while living in Hong Kong, I came across an exploded diagram of a bicycle on the back of a magazine,” he explains the inspiration for his work on his personal website. “I was inspired by its fragile beauty, and imagined a three-dimensional version with a real object.”
“The subjects I choose for the Mechanations series are icons of utility and invention,” he adds. “I also like to think they hold memories that we’ve long forgotten. They’ve watched generations pass; recorded every scene, love letter, and document. Each image, word, and note is permanently imprinted on them.”
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