Glauques sculptures mixed media art of Monica Cook. (Etats-Unis)
Monica Cook – mixed media sculptures
Oui, je crois qu’il est temps de créer un style artistique,
du genre « The Awful Art » dédié aux gens (qui comme moi),
ne comprennent rien à l’Art contemporain.
Neo-Pop artist Dan Colen (American, b.1979) is a multimedia creator who has made quite a name for himself with his unique painted sculptures, gum paintings, and installations.
Dan Colen – 100 000 USD
Mixed media Sculptures of Anna Gillespie (England) – Bristol based artist producing drawings and representational figurative sculpture using contemporary disposable materials and bronze.
Anna Gillespie – Sculptures
The sculpture shows the time of gathering but also a gathering up of transience, as if by embracing time you might stop its perpetual motion. And in bronze it is caught forever.
In such work the distinction between the human and the natural world is blurred, reminding me of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses,’ in which people are transformed into trees, birds, and flowers. In all the tales the transformation is an act of mercy – so the self-obsessed, lovelorn youth Narcissus becomes a flower instead of suffering death, and the devoted old couple Baucis and Philemon are changed into trees at the same time. There is real compassion in Gillespie’s work too, and she would understand that process of becoming, for in those sculptures which do not make use of the twigs and seeds which became a characteristic so beloved of her admirers, there is still a struggle to break free of what was and become something else. So a white figure is imprisoned within a stone wall, and people wrapped in duct or masking tape are infused with extraordinary energy and given the gift of flight.
This is the work of an artist at the height of her powers, who is involved in an endless process of change herself – a serious, passionate quest for synthesis.
Bel Mooney
Figurative Sculpture of Cristina Cordova. (USA)
Cristina Cordóva, a Penland artist in residence, is a ceramist whose delicate, whimsical human and animal forms spark our imagination and curiosity. She discusses her work on display at the Possibilities: Rising Stars of Contemporary Craft exhibition at the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte.
Berlinde de Bruyckere & Philippe Vandenberg – Il me faut tout oublier
Berlinde de Bruyckere, quant à elle, réactualise ici un thème fréquent de la mythologie : celui de la métamorphose de l’humain en végétal. Mais c’est un processus inverse qui s’opère : l’arbre se métamorphose, par le travail de sculpture, en un corps vivant et souffrant. Le procédé du moulage à la cire, caractéristique de la pratique de l’artiste, révèle l’écorce dans ses moindres détails. Mais la palette de tons rose et chair, les membres noueux renvoient étonnamment à une morphologie humaine; les branchages s’apparentent à des os, des muscles, des tendons, des veines, de la chair, de la peau. La fragilité des êtres, de même que les thématiques du grand amour, de sa quête et de sa perte, affleure et émeut.
du 13 février au 11 mai 2014
à la Maison Rouge / Fondation Antoine de Galbert
10 Boulevard de la Bastille
75012 Paris
Berlinde De Bruyckere et Philippe Vandenberg… par lamaisonrouge
Berlinde de Bruyckere, à La maison rouge fondation Antoine de Galbert.
Bob Quinn – Sculptures figuratives (Ireland)
D’Inspirations : Giacometti, Degas et ça me rappelle beaucoup l’univers de Valerie Hadida.
Lycra Textile Figurine of Esther de Groot / Netherlands
Nude collection / 50 x 10 x 10 cm
Syrian-Swedish Artist Alexander Hadad – Born in Syria in 1961. Lives in Norrköping, Sweden.
« My artistic realm is based on two cultural perspectives – Oriental and Swedish. The connection and contrast between these two cultures represent for me a persistant source of inspiration that allows me to constantly find new ways for my artistic creation. »
Mixed media Textile Artist : Kerry Mosley (UK)
Kerry Mosley – Heart – Mixed media Textile Artist
Using a combination of hand knit and machine stitch I create pictures, portraits and patterns according to my current fascination..
I enjoy making decorative and aesthetically pleasing textiles. I love to experiment with unusual techniques and materials, exploiting their contrasting tactile and visual qualities.
Theater Textiles sculptures ART of Valeria Dalmon ! (Argentine)
Valeria Dalmon – Textiles sculptures bunny
Visual Artist Sculptor. Film and theater director (objects, special costumes, masks, full heads of animals, dolls, puppets, costumes, memorabilia direct manipulation, scenic objects, models) I teach in my private studio : sculpture, modeling, drawing, construction of objects from recycled materials, wood, wire, material utilization, textiles, sewing, handling tools,
Papers from student projects, and work to begin to approach the visual arts. Composition, balance, dolls, masks, cartapesta, puppets, etc..
Ca fait un moment que je lorgne sur ce tableau,
pour tout l’abandon et toute la beauté qui s’en dégage : Godiva (1898) de John Collier…
Godiva, ou plus correctement Godgifu, est une dame anglo-saxonne du XIe siècle, épouse du comte Léofric de Mercie. Sa vie est mal connue. Son nom est associé à une légende apparue plus d’un siècle après sa mort, selon laquelle elle aurait traversé les rues de Coventry à cheval, entièrement nue, afin de convaincre son époux de diminuer les impôts qu’il prélevait sur ses habitants. Bien que dépourvue de tout fondement historique, la chevauchée de Lady Godiva a inspiré de nombreux artistes.
Une des variantes de la légende veut que les habitants de Coventry, pour montrer leur reconnaissance envers leur Dame, se soient tous enfermés chez eux pendant son passage. Seul un curieux, nommé Tom, aurait osé enfreindre la consigne et aurait jeté un coup d’œil à la dérobée ; mais en punition, il devint sur-le-champ aveugle. C’est de là que vient l’expression anglaise « Peeping Tom », très souvent remplacée dans la langue actuelle par le français « voyeur ». Selon certaines sources, cette légende serait née en 1586 : on aurait demandé au peintre Adam van Noort de représenter l’épisode et il aurait montré Léofric en train de regarder sa femme par la fenêtre pour constater qu’elle exécutait effectivement sa promesse. Le public aurait mal interprété ce détail, prenant le comte pour un simple indiscret. (selon wikipedia.)
John Collier : L’Honorable John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI ( à Londres – ) était un écrivain et artiste-peintre britannique préraphaélite.
Poetic scary world with Paul Toupet… (France) – born 1979
Paul Toupet – sculptures
Paul Toupet is a designer who was born in 1979 in Paris. Trained at the famous Penninghen art school and at the Workshop of Fine-Arts of Glacière in Paris, Paul Toupet has worked on the theme of human representation since 1996.Since May 1999, he displays his very particular and resolutely modern “Wax Puppets”: nucleated eyes, mouths vomiting braids, dressed in torn tissue or feathers, at a human or a child scale…
His art sometimes evokes childhood, sometimes mummies, the charred bodies of Pompeii, it revisits African art or religious art. The work of Paul Toupet is the fruit of multiple influences which are mixed and embezzle to create a poetic or provocating , a peaceful or scary world, according to the spectator’s gaze.
He is inspired by this artificial creature which have many anatomics possibilities. His work aims at transcribing a pure act of creation by the means of the unconscious which is expressed by the body. The Dolls of Paul Toupet seem to be out of time. This hybrid being would be involved in the formation of an intangible universe. Inanimate, almost eternal, it belongs to the uncanny but it is not devoid of a certain humor, even of a touch of burlesque. Dolls are spatial and temporal representations of the mores and folklore of a society.They materialise a certain conception of desire and phantasm.
Face à face from Vincent Galiano on Vimeo.
HORKA DOLLS – Art dolls sculptures by Klaudia Gaugier (Pologne)
HORKA DOLLS – Art dolls sculptures
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