Incredible wooden sculptures by Michael T. Rea:
“Standing on the shoulders of other people’s dreams could perhaps be the most pathetic of all dreams. The intent of my work is to create something short of its outcome. My goal is to create the idea of an object that remains a dream. The objects I create are based on fictions, rather than realities.”
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“The Fat Monkey is a site specific work which was created out of the question from the Pixelshow to make a sculpture during their conference in 2010. Made with the help of local students and made from the brazilian icon; the flip flop which obviously works as one of the 10.000 pixels. The fat monkey is a work in the series Obeastitas.”
Project by Florentijn Hofman.
Joshua Webb is an Australian visual artist. From his statement:
“Webb’s practice to date explores the oscillating frontiers of an unknowable thesis in relation to art. The work reflects an ongoing philosophical expedition that transverse a wide selection of meta-data sourced from history, language, culture, politics, technology and capital. With each artistic endeavour Webb embodies theory as form, the resulting sculptural and filmic containers left behind become the debris of an endless philosophical negation. ”
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Erwin Wurm‘s new exhibition: Gulp. On view at Lehmann Maupin‘s gallery in News York:
“In gulp Wurm introduces the theme of the social envelope – clothing, food, furniture, cars, houses – in order to annotate the fragility of both the individual and collective identity behind it. Wurm uses these items as personifications of a social context through which individuals attempt to express themselves all the while being formed and deformed by it. In works such as Telekinetischer Masturbator, a sculpture of a man without arms, wearing a real shirt, and Me Under LSD, a single extended hand supporting a large cloud-like structure, Wurm translates psychological and mental realities into physical realities. The layers in which Wurm surrounds the body, both metaphorically and literally, the extensive fattening-up or thinning-down of people and things, are, like his softened architecture, sculptural metaphors for an existential insecurity about the boundaries of oneself.”
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