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Sculpture | May 6, 2008

Peter Jansen creates sculptures that focus on the body’s movement freeze-framed in time and space. Working with Materialise.MGX, Jansen is able to produce polyamide figures by using a rapid prototyping process that makes good use of the Materialise.MGX technology. Heel Daoyin, Runner and Thomas Flair were part of the Materialise.MGX exhibition in Milan’s Zona Tortona last month, and Jansen’s work, all arms, legs and muscles, was the perfect vehicle to understand some of the process.

Artist: Peter Jansen
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"Eye Eye"
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Sculpture | Apr 17, 2008

Kate Street’s sculptured wreaths are rich in colour and form, and it is only when one approaches that the bugs and flies that lurk within become apparent. Pocket watches dangle from beaks, eyeballs dot a black-petal heart crossed by a sword, and flies hide among the licorice allsorts and chocolatey leaves. There is an air of decay that mixes with decadence, and the message goes out to all who approach: Don’t get too close.

Artist: Kate Street
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"Coathanger Gorilla"
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Sculpture | Apr 10, 2008

David Mach is a sculptor and installation artist who puts wire hangers to use in his pieces of art. Mach first creates a plastic base of the figure he then wraps in coathangers. Hundreds of basic hangers are welded together and then the plastic base is removed, leaving the hanger sculpture ready for silver nickel plating. Mach has also used match heads for other sculpture work.

Artist: David Mach
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"Circa (6)"
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Sculpture | Mar 26, 2008

We featured Mariana Monteagudo’s work a little while ago, but the artist has recently completed a new production of sculptures that is absolutely incredible. These dollies have faces that are so expressive that even the ones who show a sort of passivity are expressing personality. Monteagudo has also managed to capture so well the spirit of her sculptures in the photos that we think the sculpture-related photography is just as covetable as the three dimensional work. Kudos to Monteagudo.

Artist: Mariana Monteagudo
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"Historic Milan"
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Sculpture | Mar 25, 2008

Matthew Picton creates delicate sculptures depicting maps of various cities. Picton’s historical maps are layers of changes to cities like Milan, Baghdad, Berlin and Paris, where different colours help to differentiate the years. Carefully cut out of Dura-Lar plastic and held in place by pins, these maps are fascinating because they are three-dimensional representations of where we live, and who we are. Picton’s work is bound to appeal to travellers and map lovers and anyone obsessed with detail.

Artist: Matthew Picton
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"Moji Family"
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Sculpture | Mar 14, 2008

Pictured above is a very unusual group of sculptures by Adriean Koleric: the Moji family. According to legend as transmitted by Koleric, the rarely seen Moji “originates from the vast goji berry fields in the Himalayas. This ground burrowing creature eventually stowed away on goji filled crates destined for America. They now dwell unnoticed deep inside the produce displays, living off new varieties of produce and fruit which have contributed to the Moji’s recent color change muted cream to more vibrant hues such as orange and red.” So be careful at the fruit stand.

Artist: Adriean Koleric
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"Untitled (Zhang Hui)" Part 2
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Sculpture | Mar 7, 2008

Zhang Hui’s armies of sculptures wear pagodas perched upon their perfectly flipped hair and march forward, eyes closed, as though in rest. There is nothing blind about them whether armed with their own weapons, taking the sun as mermaids do or reading books. All the maidens are marked with a scar, yet everything else about them seems perfect. Indeed, they are fairy princesses (or demure warriors) of a most mystical kind.

Artist:Zhang Hui
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"Time Guardians"
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Sculpture | Feb 19, 2008

Austrian artist Manfred Kielnhofer’s Time Guardians are mysterious sculptures that resemble cloaked and hooded figures that are silent observers of the passage of time. The sculptures have appeared in indoor and outdoor installations, looking for all the world like a very focused procession of beings deep in contemplation. The sculptures appear to be concrete, but are actually hollow folds of treated textile. Ghosts? Grim Reapers? Or maybe simple witnesses …

Artist: Manfred Kielnhofer
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"The Big Guy Tries to Raise the Level of the Discourse by Hurling a Large Gravy Boat"
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Sculpture | Feb 13, 2008

Frank Plant is an American sculptor based in Barcelona who creates wire sculptures that include various three-dimensional additions such as the gravy boat in the above work. Often his themes are without complication, like children holding playthings, but Plant does not shy away from darker issues such as hostage-takings and the surrounding implications. A discarded body of a man left by a heap of trash was motivation for the work in progress after the jump.

Artist: Frank Plant
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"Portable Cellular Phone Booth"
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Sculpture | Jan 23, 2008

Nick Rodrigues is a Boston-based performance sculptor whose unusual work is themed on human interaction. Rodrigues incorporates these pieces into public settings and captures public reaction on video. The Porta Party is a booth the size of a standard telephone booth or portable toilet, but when placed on a street corner with party sounds emanating, it gets more attention than the standard services would. The diePod is a statement on how anyone born now will have some sort of electronic device on them until their death, and the Portable Cellular Phone Booth speaks of avoiding real time interactions. Shown here are stills from the videos on Rodrigues’ website.

Artist: Nick Rodrigues
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"Thinking of Rosy"
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Sculpture | Jan 21, 2008

Mitsy Groenendijk’s monkey sculptures reflect a human need to control nature. Human characteristics are sometimes easier to examine if demonstrated on some “other”, and the monkey is the perfect foil for our foibles. It does not take long for the viewer’s eye to adapt to the image of the monkey in place of the women or girls that would have, or should have, been Rosy, Tina and the Kindred Spirits.

Artist: Mitsy Groenendijk
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