Look at this incredible knit skeleton by Ben Cuevas!
Yes, I said knit…
This installation is part of the Transcending the Material project.
More pictures here.
Tag: installations
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Amazing decoration idea, found on Pumpkinrot:
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Although I adore most dark and unsettling things, I’m not a fan of theatrical haunted houses.
I tend to be put off by the live actors invading my space and relying on the cheap thrills of activating the most base human reflexes. It’s distracting and irritating. All I really want to do is enjoy the scenery, props and artistry of the whole thing. Really, get out of my face and don’t jump out at me…it just ruins the experience.
Here’s a novel idea for a haunted house that does use some of the aforementioned scare tactics, but has a different spin:
In this truly immersive experience, audience members are thrust into a beautiful and terrifying dreamscape of neo-Victorian elegance and phantasmagoric clockwork horrors. Once inside, audience members are separated, until one by one, they find themselves alone, lost somewhere within the three sprawling floors of Abrons’ majestic century-old playhouse. From there, they must choose where to go, exploring innumerable twisting hallways, looming balconies, and labyrinthine cellars. All the while, a whirlwind of mechanical apparitions, wraithlike sleepwalkers, and gear-powered beasts hurtle through corridors and lurk behind every corner and within every room.
Trailer:
Honestly, what I’d like to see more than anything else is a collection of still frames. I’m sure it’s a feast for the senses in there.
If anyone in NY goes, please tell me about your experience!
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I am truly astonished by Alexa Meade’s series of hyper-realistic acrylic body paintings. Upon first seeing these, I kept rubbing my eyes…incredible trompe l’oeil effect!
She has a remarkable talent to translate every nuance of how humans are represented with paint on canvas.
I would never guess that these are 3D living installations.
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The human tendency to anthropomorphize never gets old to me. I sit here, staring at inanimate objects, KNOWING they are inanimate…yet neurons keep firing in my brain that endow these objects with human pathos.
There’s been a trend of emotional robots surfacing around the Internet these days (I love every minute of it).
Anton Tang makes brilliant use of our inability to avoid feeling something for objects placed in human positions and situations in his series of tiny cardboard people placed around Singapore.
Magical!
See many more, plus commentary in this post.See a descriptive post with many more examples here.
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I give you Structure of Shadow, an installation by Bohyun Yoon.
“This work is an installation piece in which I present a mix of male and female toy-like rubber figures hung with strings marching in one direction, one after another.”
“Hanging like puppets, the figures portray the idea of a group as opposed to an individual. A simple light and shadow trick is key in this work and becomes a metaphor for invisible power or tricks of politics in our society. When the viewer approaches the work, their weight makes this structure shake and all the figures dance.”
I’m truly amazed by how the doll parts convene into cohesive shadows.
Yoon’s experience in the Korean military inspired him to explore the ideas of agency and power.
“I want to pose a question through my work: how does reality become exquisitely animated by certain control systems such as politics, mass media, advertisement, etc.? Furthermore, I want to reveal how human beings are fragile and delicate in these environments.”
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I came across this informative little tip recently (my broiler is uneven…I will be trying this when I can get enough toast eaters in my house at once):
This “test” reminded me of David Reimondo’s toast art, made of bread cast in resin.
See more at the Albermarle Gallery
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I’m sure many people on the coasts of the US went to the beach yesterday. I hope no one came across enough debris to make artwork like Steve McPherson.
He assembles collages from pieces of plastic that wash up on the beach. Though beautifully constructed, they are also thought provoking.
McPherson also keeps an inventory of his plastic finds.
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I believe I’ve mentioned how any artwork that destroys books leaves me feeling slightly conflicted (anachronistically attached to the printed word as I am). But I give much credit to Alicia Martin for undertaking these large installations, consisting of nearly 5,000 books each.
Of all possible favorite things to rain from the sky and out of buildings, books would probably hurt the most…but I’d love to ba around to weed through the aftermath of the spill.
Paradise on this earth…where books are projectile vomited from windows and spilling through doorways (if one is careful about bruises and paper cuts).
I wish such treasures were bursting from my walls, providing they are decent books of course.
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