The best way to describe Japanese artist Mika Aoki’s physical body and shapes of her sculptures are like bacterial specimens going through an epidemic outbreak. At the same time, evolving and incorporating itself on cars, mutated bottles, syringes, and laboratory test tubes. In the end, her sculptures are beautiful, unusually universally perceived, and executed...
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Henrique Oliveira is the man! Mr. Oliveira was featured back in February 2011 and made it onto our EK TOP 100 of 2011. Based out of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oliveira creates amazingly huge “dimensional” wall sculptural/installation pieces out of hundreds of pieces of wood and PVC pipes…so beautiful and yet grotesquely intrusive.
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Rafael Neff’s photo series is based off of some the most beautiful libraries around the world. Many of the libraries shown resembles the infamous and inspirational Sistane Chapel by the Great Master Michelangelo. Credit to the photographer Rafael Neff for capturing them in such a manner, and to the firms that designed them.
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Tom Sachs is a London based sculptor, best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. With a modern contemporary approach, his creations vary from NASA machinery, alcohol suitcase to a Chanel guillotine.
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Baptiste Debombourg is an amazing and talented artist hailing from France who creates sculptural and installation pieces out of various materials, such as paper, metal, wood, staples, taxidermy, glass, and feathers to name just a few. Keep creating Mr. Debombourg, keep creating!
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Female life-sized nutcrackers… Jennifer Rubell is a New York based artist that has created 18 pre-fabricated female mannequins for that one sole purpose. The concept and instructions are quite simple. Place the nut between her legs, specifically on her upper thighs, close the legs shut, hear that crunch, and spread the legs wide open....
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Romain Tardy’s (AntiVJ) and Squeaky Lobster‘s newest collaborative endeavors has lead them to the creation of PIECES / Battleships. The duo has coined their project as a Versatile Installation, promising a five-step metamorphosis of glowing light, moving panels, and loads of digital mapping.
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Art work revolving around geometric and mathematical equations is the immediate, natural impressions I perceive…the themes and my personal revelations based on Julien Salaud’s work. The French artist uses threads, nails, and taxidermy based on mythical creatures.
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Chris Jones, born in Preston, England and currently living and working in both London and NYC, makes his art out of magazines and used books. Pretty wicked cool, if you ask me.
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Danish Artist Jeppe Hein has recently installed contemporary modified benches in De Haan Wenduine, Belgium. The artist created these benches to alter the state of mind within the viewers’ unexpected impressions. After the break, check out the different models and the creative ways to sit on a bench.
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Debra Hampton is a collage crackerjack with as much to say in words as she does in pictures.
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Hugo Orlandini originally hails from Santiago de Cuba, but is currently based out of Barcelona, Spain. “I’m inclined to think of art as a transformational, creative and political energy that has sensorial, optical and mental consequences. A door that grants us access to new channels of perception in order to submit accepted systems to...
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From afar, South Korean artist Seung Mo Park’s portraits look like charcoal drawings, but in reality, they are wired stainless steel scrims. The artist composes and structures the steel as if they we’re paint. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is the first time I’ve got to experience portraits with this...
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Apocalypse has now approached the deserts of Mexico. Spanish photographer Lola Guerrera has created colorful smoke explosions called ‘Nebula Humilis’. Each mountain is intervened with smoke signals that allows her voice to be blasted through the silent lonesome landscape.
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‘Home Within Home’ was created by Korean artist Do Ho Suh, where he was recently represented at the Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea. These houses and interior decorations we’re crafted through silk and other fabrics. The series portrays a skeletal idea of inhabitant places and each concept of ‘home’ reflects a...
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The eccentric and exuberant qualities of Terence Koh is the staple characteristic of an artist that will be forever symbolized in his artistic nature. With his queer, punk, diversities, Koh embodies a wide range of mediums from sculptures, paintings, photography and performances. He was born in Beijing and raised in Ontario, Canada. Out Magazine...
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Isaac Cordal’s latest environmental installation series is titled ‘Waiting For Climate Change’. The Spanish born artist lays out a collection of small sculptures confronting the issue of climate change. Cordal’s installations are located throughout thirty different locations, particularly placed in coastal regions.
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Robert Gligorovis an artist previously featured by our beloved Konahrtist on October 6th, 2011. He has also graced us with his presence in our Top 100 Artists of 2011. With his incredible knack for artistic shock value it was only natural that we’d want to take a peak into this man’s mind and see what makes him...
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David DiMichele creates imaginary art installations that allows the viewer to question monumental artwork scaled at a large perspective. The artist is based out of Los Angeles, where he manipulates his surroundings through photography and constructed installations. DiMichele’s series is labeled ‘Pseudodocumentation’; his personal definition on portrayal and experience of art.
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