L’un des plus grand sculpteur hyper-realistes expose à Paris
CHOI XOOANG (Corée du sud)
« The Blind for the Blind »
Galerie Albert Benamou
6 March to 17 April 2014
Galerie Albert Benamou – Véronique Maxé
24 rue de Penthièvre
75008 Paris
L’un des plus grand sculpteur hyper-realistes expose à Paris
CHOI XOOANG (Corée du sud)
« The Blind for the Blind »
Galerie Albert Benamou
6 March to 17 April 2014
Galerie Albert Benamou – Véronique Maxé
24 rue de Penthièvre
75008 Paris
Glauques sculptures mixed media art of Monica Cook. (Etats-Unis)
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.
Quand l’Art devient grotesque, sans interet et immonde.
When Art becomes grotesque, without interest and filthy.
Les « oeuvres » de Tiina-Liisa Kaalamo (Finlande).
Technique mixte, entre autres, fourrure, crânes de rat et queues de… ? peu importe.. et le sens figuratif, l’interet, un message ? L’exploitation animale où encore la génétique à coup sûre ?
Mixed media Sculptures of Anna Gillespie (England) – Bristol based artist producing drawings and representational figurative sculpture using contemporary disposable materials and bronze.
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.
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. »
Theater Textiles sculptures ART of Valeria Dalmon ! (Argentine)
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..
Poetic scary world with Paul Toupet… (France) – born 1979
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)