Posts tagged art

Milky Way - Breath by Mihoko Ogaki

Human Body Sculptures and Light installations. Each figure is formed out of plastic and then embedded with bright LEDs, which shine through thousands of little holes and illuminate the surrounding walls. The results are a bright starry sky, projected outward from the dying figures. The series of work represents both life and death. In a bright room, the dying bodies appear morbid and in pain, but, when the lights go off, the suffering seems to disappear into a delightful, twinkling display

Matchstickmen by Wolfgang Stiller

Nothing more black at the festival. Café Ouro Festival Black Festival Ads by Genesis Comunicacao

Jewel of the Universe by Chris Chamberlain

The project took the artist 3,500 hours to complete over the course of 27 months. The varied shimmering materials include 300,000 hand-cut squares and ambiguous shapes of stained glass; 1,238 jewels totaling 260 carats; over 6,900 internal LED lights; and 80,000 pieces of glass to create the frame, which represents space. Constructing the piece out of 12 varieties of gems—amethyst, aquamarine, citrine, diamond, emerald, iolite, peridot, ruby, sapphire, tanzanite, topaz and zircon—the artist took creative liberties to represent only the most globally significant areas of the world.

The Magnificent Seven by Philippe Pétremant

Urban Greenery by Edina Tokodi (Mosstika)

Bejeweled rotting fruits by Luciana Rondolini 

Cartographic paper sculptures reveal global Cities’ history by Matthew Picton

 UK-based artist Matthew Picton uses strips of paper to construct maps of cities from around the world. The Londoner’s sculptural creations use both historic and fictional texts to produce cartographic representations of multicultural cities like Las Vegas, Dresden, Tehran, and Venice. The materials used are reflective of each respective culture, from literary and religious texts to sheet music and DVD film covers.

More than simply lining out the aerial urban landscape of each site, Picton also creatively reflects the historical scene of certain locations that have dealt with disasters, especially those pertaining to fires. The Great Fire of London in 1666 is represented by the burnt pages of Daniel Defoe’s The Plague Years. Similarly, Picton has ignited several of his paper cities to reflect their own fire-related tragedies. Taking the interpretation a step further, the artist constructed his scorched Lower Manhattan piece out of headlines following the aftermath of the World Trade Center bombings.

(Spotted on MyModernMetropolis)

U.S.A. (burnt/unburnt), United States Map Made from Thousands of Green Wood Matches by Claire Fontaine