Marilyn. Marilyn | invictamagazine. The Bride | Chandelier Made of 14,000 Tampons : Crazy or Not ? Chandeliers are usually made of crystal and diamonds. This one’s made of tampons. At first glance, this dramatic chandelier created by Joana Vasconcelos looks ordinarily beautiful, but look closer, and you’ll be bloody surprised! The monster-sized chandelier is actually composed of hundreds of white O.B. tampons. Called “The Bride” this chandelier is right now in a gallery in Lisbon. It’s a 5-meter tall chandelier made from wire, cotton thread, and over 14,000 tampons.
Right now, the tampon chandelier is only soaking up the gazes of art lovers, and will continue to do so until the Belem Cultural Center exhibition ends, on May 18, 2010. Les derniers tubes de Joana Vasconcelos. Joana vasconcelos | lovely textiles. El matador, 2007 Joana Vasconcelos caught the attention of the international art world in 2005 at the Venice Biennale. Her sculptural work is that which often marries highly intelligent concepts with playful execution.
Her work will be immediately recognisable to some of you for the volume and dexterity of crochet work. However she makes important sculptural pieces which pull upon a great range of influences, materials and disciplines. Her output is prolific, having it's roots in sculpture it has grown in scale and detail, range and focus. Victoria, 2008 Vasconcelos' work repeatedly plays upon the tension between the large scale of peices and the small initmate details of their technical execution. Gorette, 2006 For example the monumentally scaled chandelier pictured below, A Noiva (the bride) is made from around 25,000 tampons. A noiva (the bride), 2005 Chandeliers have been widely seen as great statements of status and glamour - the larger they are the more expensive and covetable. I Will Survive, an exhibition by Joana Vasconcelos at Haunch of Venison Gallery, London. Contamination - 54th Venice Biennale - Palazzo Grassi.
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