Dave Cole – Patriot Games
New Hampshire-born, Rhode Island-based conceptual artist Dave Cole mixes craft with political messaging, often making the viewer rethink their thoughts on national identity and patriotism. Cole’s protean craftsmanship gives voice to both a scholarly knowledge of this nation’s past and a conscientious understanding of what it means to be American in today’s society. His work is a poetic inquisition … Read more
Yinka Shonibare – Fabric-ation
British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare has brought a splash of his typical lighthearted colour to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with his installation Fabric-ation. The exhibition, his largest yet, showcases over 30 of Shonibare’s art amongst the expanse of cedars and firs in the idyllic landscaped gardens. The show includes sculpture, film, photography, painting and collage, with … Read more
Richard Jackson – Bad Dog
Bad Dog by artist Richard Jackson is a temporary sculpture installed at the Orange County Museum of Art. The 28-foot-high giant black labrador is part of the Richard Jackson: Ain’t Painting a Pain exhibition, the first retrospective devoted to the works of the Sierra Madre, Californina-based artist. It has one of its hind legs cocked … Read more
Jaume Plensa – Wonderland
Barcelona-born sculptor Jaume Plensa is one of the world’s most celebrated public artists. Plensa’s work is best known for the monumental figurative sculptures that are seen across the globe. The Spanish artist was commissioned by Calgary’s The Bow plaza to create two artistic legacies for the space. Plensa’s Wonderland, a 12-metre tall bent-wire portrait of … Read more
Anish Kapoor at Lisson Gallery
The Lisson Gallery in London is hosting a major exhibition of new works from the Turner Prize winning artist Anish Kapoor. Spanning both the gallery’s spaces on Bell Street, the exhibition provides a thorough exposition of Kapoor’s most recent work. A complex and varied body of new explorations of experience and form, Kapoor’s show includes … Read more
Mathilde Roussel – Lives of Grass
Paris-based designer Mathilde Roussel has created the stunning sculptures ‘Lives of Grass’ that show the effects of transformation of the material as a metaphor of the transformation of the body. Time sculpts the forms, makes them change and then decay. The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. Roussel’s sculptures strive … Read more
Yasuaki Onishi – ‘Reverse of Volume RG’
Yasuaki Onishi installation, ‘Reverse of Volume RG’, uses plastic sheeting and black hot glue to create a monumental, mountainous form that appears to float inside of Rice University Art Gallery. The installation is on show now until June 13. The process that he calls casting the invisible, involves draping the plastic sheeting over stacked cardboard … Read more
Antony Gormley – Facts and Systems
British artist Antony Gormley, famous for his huge steel-based sculptures, is exhibiting a special project entitled, ‘Facts and Systems’ (Fatos e Sistemãs) at a temporary White Cube Gallery space in São Paulo, Brazil. The ‘Facts and Systems’ installation is comprised of two new series by the Angel of the North sculptor and is on now … Read more
Maskull Lasserre – Incarnate Skull Book
Canadian born Maskull Lasserre has created ‘Incarnate’ a stunning human skull sculpture carved into books. Lasserre’s drawings and sculptures explore the unexpected potential of the everyday through allegories of value, expectation, and utility. Elements of nostalgia, accident, humour, and the macabre are incorporated into works that induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in … Read more
Valérie Buess – Paper Sculptures
Swiss artist Valérie Buess has created stunning intricate mini sculptures from paper. The now German-based artist was born in 1966 in Lucerne, but in 1990 she decided to live and work in the city of Marburg, where she has been honing her craft for over the last twenty years. The delicate creativity in Buess’ work … Read more
Weaving Forest
‘Weaving Forest’ by SUPER NATURE is a Hong Kong art installation consisting of wooden reindeers and structures where visitors can use yarns to weave and make their own line-patterns on it. The result of the interaction and the user-engagement of it, ensured that a mass of yarns were soon covering the installation. Shanghai-based multidisciplinary design … Read more
Banksy – Fallen Soldier
Renowned graffiti artist, Banksy often goes months without any work popping up and then there is deluge of his work on the streets. It seems that now is the latter for the secretive street artist as a new piece of work has sprung up. So, after last week’s new sculpture, ‘Cardinal Sin’ at the Walker … Read more
Herb Williams’ Crayon Art – Unwanted Visitor: Portrait of Wildfire
“Unwanted Visitor: Portrait of Wildfire” is an outdoor art installation, created by sculptor Herb Williams to raise awareness of wildfire in an area that has been severely affected by drought. This installation is on display outdoors at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, TX. Williams designed and created several freestanding, three-dimensional sculptures of wildfire … Read more
Maurizio Cattelan: All
Maurizio Cattelan has been one of the most interesting, provocative, bold and funny contemporary artists of his generation, looking at today’s society and exposing its contradictions in works that despite their humour are a scathing attack on 21st century culture. Following his announcement to retire, the Guggenheim in New York is hosting a retrospective of … Read more
Damien Hirst & Beyond Limits at Chatsworth House
English artist Damien Hirst, has unveiled two new sculptures and thank god they are a million miles away from those awful skulls! The recent pieces, ‘Legend’ and ‘Myth’, are currently on display at Chatsworth House as part of Sotheby’s Beyond Limits until October 30. The sculptures depict a winged horse and unicorn that have been … Read more
Nicola Freeman’s giant sweet sculptures
After going back to where I once was a teenage tearaway in Northolt yesterday and seeing the old newsagent and its penny sweet emporium no longer there, I wondered… does anyone eat sweets like that anymore.Ok the super trendy Shoreditch House has jars of sweets that everyone goes to enjoy – only bad thing is … Read more
Abandoned monuments that could have inspired Transformers
These fantastic monuments that have been left abandoned in the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia , Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia), the designs could have been from the future or inspired the likes of Optimus Prime.
