Hedi Xandt is "God of the Grove" - WAAVE+DADA. Hedi Xandt, raised in a creative family of painters and illustrators, was drawn to artistic expression and his impressive sculptures at an early age. Xandt is known for blending styles, aesthetics and mediums, originally as a painter but more recently, since his vocation as a professional graphic designer, he has delved into intense, dark and imaginative sculptures. photos courtesy of www.hedixandt.com. Welded Steel Sculptures Look Different from Various Angles.
Through his emotive metal sculptures, Hungarian sculptor Aron Majoros explores human equilibrium both physical and emotional. One female figure stands tiptoe on the edge of a thin vertical sheet, evoking an intense feeling in the viewer, and prompting the physical uneasiness of vertigo. The fragmented sculptures are meticulously welded together piece by piece. Both of the life-size standing figures are composed of hundreds of circles only a few centimeters in diameter. While they look solid from the front, when viewed from any other angle, you'll see that Aron's figures are half-formed. Dr. Aron Majoros' website via [doloresdepalabra] Yamamoto "Salt Installation, Artist" BENJAMIN PHELAN.
Brazilian Artists Create Labyrinth Using 250,000 Books. 13 | After Afghanistan, A Vet Finds His Talent For Felted Animals. Kiyoshi Mino is a farmer who needle-felts incredibly realistic small animals for fun. The Illinois native had no intention of being an artist--or a man of the land, for that matter--but two stints in Afghanistan gave him a new perspective on personal priorities, and significantly changed the course of his life. After studying evolutionary biology as an undergrad Mino went straight into the army, and his four years of service included one deployed abroad. “My unit was tasked with disrupting Taliban movements into Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan in the Paktika province,” he tells Co.Design. “We spent three months up in the mountains going from village to village, sleeping under the stars or our Humvees. Most of these villages were so remote that we were the first foreigners they’d seen since the Russian Invasion.
That experience led Mino to question the quality-of-life standards that most Americans are often born-and-bred to hold dear. Watch: A Huge Kinetic Sculpture Balanced Miraculously On A Single Feather. I’ve happened across enough contact juggling videos on YouTube to know that souped-up circus routines are a dime a dozen on the Internet. But Balance, a short film directed by Tobias Hutzler, is the first I’ve been able to watch without laughing. Balance stars Maedir Eugster, the 58-year-old "balance master” and co-founder/director of Rigolo Swiss Nouveau Cirque, a performance art troupe based in Switzerland. Eugster, clad only in pantaloons (and maybe some eyeliner for effect?)
Spends the video building a temporary sculpture, based on a single feather. Then, thanks to physics, the whole thing collapses without Eugster’s steady hand. [H/t Ignant] A Sculptural Take On The Flipbook At Kinetica Art Fair 2013 | Kinetica Art Fair 2013 | The Creators Project.