Patricia Broothaers – androgyn and bashful sculptures..
OSerais-je pour certaines.. parler qu’elles dégagent un « quelquechose » de très trans ?
En tout cas, une émotion pudique et très parlante, un aspect « grimée » très particulier.
(Belgium).
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Rachel Ducker Wire Sculpture
Rachel Ducker Wire Sculpture. (UK)
British contemporary artist, Rachel Ducker was originally trained as a jeweller. With an insatiable desire to create she turned her attention to sculpting the human form in wire, concentrating on the expressive and emotional dynamics of human nature.
Rachel Ducker Wire Sculptures
« With an incredibly visual, active mind Rachel has an insatiable desire to create and make. Well practiced in life drawing and with an appreciation of the human form and the emotional dynamics of human nature, combined with being originally trained as a jeweller, lead her to experiment with wire as a medium for sculpting the human form, capturing something ephemeral, either emotive or active.
Her pieces are untitled due to her belief that everyone sees something different in the sculptures and her lack of suggestion leads them to live that moment she portrays in their own particular way, therefore expanding the piece of work further with every viewer.
The translucency and form of her work allows rather dramatic shadows to be cast and with the right lighting, can show the three dimensional form on a two dimensional level creating an effect resembling a pencil sketch on the wall.
Rachel uses no model and she doesn’t form the shape around anything. The posture is first designed and then the pieces are carefully molded by hand and then gradually added to, wrapping wire, layer by layer. Her satisfaction with the posture can be instantaneous or take days and every angle important right to the tip of the finger and to a millimetre of adjustment until just right. She discovered that the slightest movement in the angle of the hand or fingers, or the tilting of the head changes everything the figure is portraying.
Her sculptures being featureless leaves the posture to say all, expressing the feeling. The hair creating the scene, making all more turbulent, dramatic, adding latent movement and tenacity. She is very focused on people watching and body language and how people express themselves physically and all goes along side her keen interest in psychology.
Her inspiration may come from the human form, but she is also greatly inspired by different materials, found objects and new techniques and is keen to combine mediums, finding it often leading to new ideas, which Rachel is never short of!
The wire work keeps her more than busy, supplying over twenty galleries in the UK alone, various exhibitions and numerous private commissions globally. But Rachel tries to keep her active mind diverse in it’s creativity. She still makes her silver cast jewellery to commission and enjoys experimenting with painting, life drawing monoprints, photography and is keen to try animation with the wire figures, as well as constantly moving on with the sculpture. »
Luminous Art glass David Willis
Luminous Art glass David Willis. Glass installations.
David Willis’ work is predominantly lampworked borosilicate glass which allows him to create works that range from delicate to massive. He is inspired by the natural world and addresses the relationships between people and nature at all levels in his work. During this residency, David Willis will produce a clear glass field of daisies. « Growth and decay, composition and decomposition, life and death, reality and the surreal, will be addressed by this work. »
Burning man. A city in the desert.
Burning man. A city in the desert. A culture of possibility. A network of dreamers and doers.
Le festival Burning Man est une grande rencontre artistique qui se tient chaque année dans le désert de Black Rock au Nevada.
Elle a lieu la dernière semaine d’août, le premier lundi de septembre étant férié aux États-Unis. C’est Larry Harvey qui a proposé en 1986 la crémation festive d’un mannequin géant sur la plage de Baker Beach, qui fait face au Golden Gate Bridge à San Francisco. En 1990, l’événement est déplacé dans le Nevada pour permettre l’accueil, dans une sorte de ville temporaire en plein désert, d’installations (Art Camps) et de participants (Burners) de plus en plus nombreux. (Source: wikipedia)
« Burning Man est aussi bien un rendez-vous interlope pour vieux hippies ou fêtards de San Francisco que pour l’élite technologique de la Silicon Valley. »
C’est Woodstock et la Biennale de Venise réunis, la ruée vers l’Ouest et la plus grande rave party du monde : c’est Burning Man, le festival qui surpeuple chaque année le désert du Nevada, ou l’expression la plus anarchique de l’optimisme américain. Un concentré de l’énergie pure de la côte Ouest et de l’immense richesse des États-Unis.
Venus du monde entier, des centaines d’artistes bâtissent d’immenses chars éphémères sur des charpentes de bois, des voitures-sculptures, des véhicules mutants, des yachts des sables qui vont croiser dans le désert pendant la semaine de cette fête qui ne s’arrête jamais… Ponctuée par la mise à feu spectaculaire de ces édifices, à l’aube ou au coucher du soleil, devant des dizaines de milliers de fans exaltés. Tant qu’il dure, Burning Man est sans doute la plus monumentale exposition de sculptures au monde. Et pourtant, chaque année, quand s’achève le mois d’août, il n’en reste plus rien. (Lire la suite sur lefigaro.fr)
- Voir le très bon reportage photos de DUNCAN RAWLINSON du Rassemblement 2014
- et aussi :
My Burning Man 2013 photos.
my Burning Man 2012 photos.
Le theme du rassemblement 2015 sera « Carnival of Mirrors. (380 $ l’entrée en 2014… hmm)
World of Charles Avery
World of Charles Avery / (born 1973) is a Scottish artist from Oban.
He currently lives and works in London. Since 2004, he has devoted his practice to the perpetual description of an imaginary island. Through drawings, sculptures and texts. Avery describes the topology, cosmology and inhabitants of this fictional territory, from the market of the main town Onomatopoeia to the Eternal Forest where an unknown beast called the Noumenon is held to reside. The project can be read as a meditation on some of the central themes of philosophy of art-making, and on the colonization and ownership of the world of ideas.
He is represented by the gallery Pilar Corrias in London.
(Source : wikipedia)
L’être humain a aussi quelquechose d’effrayant – Sculptures de Hans Jorgensen
L’être humain a aussi quelquechose d’effrayant – Sculptures de Hans Jorgensen, né en 1948 au Danemark. Il est diplômé des Beaux Arts de Copenhague. Il séjourne à L’étranger pendant plusieurs années : d’abord au Maroc puis en Espagne à Madrid où il travaille avec des artistes de la Casa Velasquez sur une recherche autour de l’œuvre de Goya. Il Se fixe ensuite en France et se consacre à la sculpture.
Saltimbanques agités, mannequins décharnés, démantibulés, de quel enfer nostalgique de fiel et de hasard, vous êtes vous échappés ? De quel désespoir aigu êtes vous revenus ? Vous hantez nos misères et vous saccagez nos habitudes. Vous réveillez le chaos sublime endormi dans nos passages cloutés. Vous éveillez nos bas-fonds perdus. Vous enchantez nos pulsions détruites, vous dansez à vif et à cru sur l’ennui de nos écrans, et vous ensanglantez nos routines. Créatures de survie sauvage, vous nous sauvez la vie, et nos démons s’enracinent aux affres de vos désirs… Christian Noorbergen
EXPO : jusqu’au 20 octobre 2014. Galerie Jean-marc Laik, Altenhof 9 – 56068 Koblenz Allemagne
Au ‘corps’ du détail – Textile Art Sally Hewett
Au ‘corps’ du détail – Textile Art Sally Hewett (England)
Sally Hewett – textile sculptures – Sisters under the skin2
» My practice centres around ideas of beauty and ugliness and the conventions that determine which is seen as which. I am interested in why some characteristics of bodies are considered beautiful and others ugly or disgusting.
My concern is with how we see things and how we interpret what we see: does my particular way of representing bodies, using fabrics and stitching (with their historical and political associations), affect how the content of the work is seen? Is it seen as ugly, disgusting, beautiful, erotic, or just funny ? «
Magic Wire mesh sculpture by Pauline Ohrel
Magic Wire mesh sculpture by Pauline Ohrel / Sculptures en fil de fer et sculptures figuratives (FR)
» Mon travail du grillage est celui de la suggestion, de l’aperçu, lorsqu’il s’accroche en bas relief ombré, ou celui des tensions et mouvements lorsqu’il se renforce de fils d’acier.
Toujours vers une plus grande fragilité… apparente. «
Horses sculptures of Saone de Stalh
Horses sculptures of Saone de Stalh. (FR) née en 1984.
Sculpteur-plasticienne, elle se consacre entièrement à un projet : la réalisation de sculptures équestres monumentales.
Les sculptures de cette jeune artiste trouvent leurs racines dans les hantises secrètes où prennent vie les mouvements naturels à l’animal. La langue de la matière se lit surtout à travers la structure de l’œuvre : dans les mains de Saône de Stalh le corps du cheval respire, instinct et imaginaire se rejoignent pour inventer un surcroit de présence. C’est précisément la combinaison de l’aspect de témoignage et l’amour des formes puissantes qui est alternée dans cette recherche abrupte, consciente, qui interroge l’homme sur son animalité. Au cours de ce cérémonial de création en clair-obscur, l’artiste permet à la ligne de dégager son incroyable force.
Une sculpture nécessite addition de plusieurs techniques. Au commencement, il y a le bois qui forme grossièrement la structure de l’animal. Les membres sont ensuite formés grâce à des moules en résine réalisés grâce à une première sculpture. Après le bois et la résine vient le papier qui donne une forme plus réaliste à la sculpture mais c’est ensuite l’application de plusieurs couches de résine qui donnera la forme finale au cheval. Pour niveler l’ensemble, plusieurs heures de ponçage sont ensuite nécessaires. La peinture donne alors la touche finale à l’ensemble.
Saône Stahl is a French artist born in 1984 Sculptor-visual artist, she devoted herself fully to a project: achieving monumental equestrian sculptures. The sculptures of this young artist are rooted in secret obsessions that come to life the natural movements of the animal. The language of the material reads mainly through the structure of the work: in the hands of Saône de Stalh, the horse’s body breathing: instinct and imagination come together to invent extra presence. It is precisely the combination of appearance and testimony of the love of powerful forms that alternates in this abrupt research, conscious, interviewing the man on his animal. During this ceremony on « light and dark », the artist allows the line to clear his incredible strength.
A sculpture requires addition of several techniques. In the beginning, there was wood that roughly forms the structure of the animal. Members are then trained through resin molds made through a first sculpture. After wood and resin comes the paper gives a more realistic shape to the sculpture but then the application of several layers of resin that will give the final shape to the horse. To level the set, several hours sanding are then needed. The painting then gives the final touch to the whole.
Expo : HIP Galerie à Paris du 20 au 28 novembre 2014 avec l’association ArAnima.
Enchanted world of Rebekah Bogard sculptures
Enchanted world of Rebekah Bogard sculptures. (USA)
Rebekah Bogard started drawing animals when she was growing up in Wyoming, and she never stopped, not even as a grad student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Rebekah Bogard – Sculptures
“I enjoy utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relations with humans. This susceptibility gives them a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations….Some pieces look cute, sweet and innocent, but upon closer inspection, one realizes that the piece is conceptually more complicated. They may be read simultaneously as happy-go-lucky as well as melancholic and out of place. I blend the beautiful with the sad, fantasy with reality, idealism with truth as well as the sexual with the innocent.”
Dancing with Dandelions and Robin Wight
Dancing with Dandelions and Robin Wight, fantasyWire sculptures. (USA)
Robin Wight / fantasy wire – metal sculpture
Oeuvres ViEdermistes de Murielle Belin
Oeuvres VIEdermistes de Murielle Belin, inspirations imaginaires mixed-media sculptures, taxidermie, in formol, peintures et illustrations.
Travaille près de Nancy (1976).
Muriel Belin, Folla ratt femella, 2007, TM, 18 x 14.5 x 20 cm
