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Burning Matcheads!

11/26/2012 by chicquero

David Mach studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee from 1974 to 1979 and subsequently at the Royal College of Art, London from 1979 to 1982. Mach is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. David’s artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. These impressive works of art are the result of meticulous work with thousands of tiny, colourful, Japanese matches which have been used to portray famous faces and recreate legendary artworks. However, despite his hard work […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, burn, cool, David Mach, fire, head, match, matches, matchsticks, sculptures

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Leather kids

08/31/2012 by chicquero

Sabi van Hemert, lives and works in Rotterdam. Hemert creates sculptures that are a fusion between child and animals. Her sculptures have a quality of alternately denying and confirming what you think you see in them and what feeling they give you. Because it is not immediately clear what you are seeing, the relation between viewer and sculpture is more complex. “I create images that evoke associations with people and animals. I imagine the balance between the many conflicting feelings and thoughts […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, child, cool, kids, leather, sabi van hemert, sculptures

Echology rep

05/12/2012 by chicquero

Echology Mathilde Roussel is a French artist based in Paris. Her artwork explores the questions around human being in what it is the most imperceptible. It is linked to a search to reveal through metaphor, our inner image. She wants to find the shape, the color, the dimension of our mental landscape. Her autonomous preparatory drawings allow her to formally think her sculptures which become drawings in space. Through her explorations, she strives to question time considering both human and […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: anatomy, blood, existence, grass, human being, living ingredients, Mathilde Roussel, Paris artist, representation of life, sculptures, simple sculptures, sperm, vital

Yes, carved books!

03/09/2012 by chicquero

Wow! For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee (he´s so gifted) as worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall. The dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus and ancient structures besides thinking about the environment by using old books to create amazing art! […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, canada, carved books, eco, environmental friendly, Guy Laramee, landscape, Montreal, sculptures, sustainable

Life´s attraction

02/20/2012 by chicquero

Yorkshire born Nicola Yeoman moved to London in 2001 and worked at the Guardian as a picture editor whilst studying furniture at Guildhall University. Her combined love of photography and her practical skills as a designer led to an accidental career as a set designer. Now, at first glance at least, it is her eye for the theatrical, honed and developed in this latter role, that most informs her current artwork. Yeoman’s childhood spent growing up on a farm in […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: attraction, childhood, discarded objects, Guildhall University, installations, junk yard, london, Nicola Yeoman, photography, sculptures, tree, Yorkshire

Talk to my hand!

01/19/2012 by chicquero

Israeli clay sculpture artist Ronit Baranga creates fascinating, modern, spooky “little creatures”, I mean, sculptures! He puts his own spin on things and it seems that his artwork is a way too alive! Beyond cool! Well, who’s gonna guess what are they talking about or trying to reach, poke… touch (literally)? “I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I’m just shut up, shut up, shut up… blah blah blah”… […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: bowls, clay, creepy sculptures, cups, finger, hands, Israel, modern art, mouth, plates, Ronit Baranga, sculptures, spooky, talk to my hand

He really likes to play Tetris!

01/06/2012 by chicquero

Tetrism It´s a fact that Swedish artist Michael Johansson likes to play Tetris! His art can be called Tetrism or Compactism. The way he stacks old materials that could easily be useless and dusty in your storage (or even worse, in the trash!) is truly innovative and original. I´m deeply in love with his installations (sculptures and walls)… his color research definitive of a perfect color palette. Also, I think it´s so cool that he has a great eye for vintage elements as well as for more actual […]

Categories: Design • Tags: colorful, compact art, installations, Michael Johansson, sculptures, stackable materials, sustainable, Tetris, vintage, walls

Killing me softly!

12/18/2011 by chicquero

Soft Guerrilla Kyle Bean is a Brighton, UK based designer who is specialized in hand crafted models, set design and art direction. His work is outstanding and for this latest series he has chosen a relevant set of objects to put his spin on given the current state of armed conflict in the world today. Kyle created ” Soft Guerrilla” for CUT Magazine and I´ll tell you what this is about… he got some devices/weapons considered usually harmful such as grenades, knives, among others and […]

Categories: Artsy, Laugh • Tags: art direction, artwork, cool, Cut Magazine, feather, hand crafted, harmful, harmless, Jello sculptures, Kyle Bean, no war, sculptures, Soft Guerrilla, war, weapon

Phantoms and strange beings from a poetic universe.

11/05/2011 by chicquero

Objects such as brooms, cleavers, knives, brushes and scissors are simply so quotidians but not for creative New York based artist Thierry Despont. He has the talent of transforming this objects into these kinda mysterious sculptures featured in Masks. Thierry describes his work as: “As I wonder the streets of our cities I keep stumbling across weird and discarded objects, old tools aban- doned in the dark corners of foreign shops, he?te?roclite bric-a-brac, wondrous rejects of our blind civiliza- tion. […]

Categories: Design • Tags: acrylic, alumichrom, animal sculptures, art, arte, artist, artistic, artwork, asphaltum, birdish, birds, brooms, brushes, cleavers, daily objects, enamel, epoxy resin, flies, glue, ink, knives, mysterious, New York art, oil stick, paper, phantoms, quotidian objects, rustic, rustic art, scissors, sculptures, strange beings, Thierry Despont, wood, wood panel

Sweet & Spooky Hallows!

10/31/2011 by chicquero

Venezuelan artist Mariana Monteagudo creates super cute (and kinda scary) sculptures made of hard latex and other synthetic derivatives. Little heroes, versions of action figures, cartoon characters and Barbie dolls are the sources of her inspiration. A look from the distance to the icons of our society, trying not to take them for granted, but showing a different side, sometimes dark and frightening is totally what Mariana wants us to get from her artwork. The idea is that the viewer […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arte, barbie doll, black cats, cartoon characters, dia das bruxas, dia de las brujas, dolls, escultura, ghosts, halloween, halloween decor, halloween inspired, Hallows, hard latex, heroes, Mariana Monteagudo, neighborhood kids, october 31, sculptures, spooky, trick or treat, trick or treaters, witches

Little ponies, little pop icons!

09/15/2011 by chicquero

We (Lailah & Denis) come from the generation of My Little Pony so when I saw these super amazing sculptures by artist Mari Kasurinen, I knew that some of you would totally understand that I´m talking about the 80´s childhood… of course you´ll see some pop icons from other decades, but it´s a very creative way to express pop art! I went nuts with the ponies… My Little Pony friendship is magic!!!!!

Categories: Artsy, Laugh • Tags: 80´s decade, childhood, edward, elvis, ironman, jack sparrow, kill bill, Lady Gaga, Mari Kasurinen, My Little Pony, pop art, pop artist, pop icon, scissorhands, sculptures

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