New Hammered Steel Animal Head Sculptures by Selçuk Yılmaz. Turkish sculptor Selçuk Yılmaz (previously) just completed work on three new mask-like sculptures depicting the heads of a lynx, tiger, and fox.
Yılmaz uses thin strands of hammered and welded steel that give each piece a beautiful curved musculature. You can see more details of each piece over on Behance. Playful New Murals and Paintings by ‘Wes21′ Fuse Technology, Humor, and the Natural World. With a keen sense of humor and superb control of a spray can, Swiss artist Remo Lienhard (aka Wes21) covers both walls and canvases with his playful sythesis of science fiction and the natural world.
The artist imagines a hybrid spaceship ladybug as it blasts into the sky and pair of airborne lighthouses are revealed to be the bodies of ominous looking squid. Lienhard works in a variety of mediums from smaller acrylic and spray pieces on canvas to larger murals that often make use of surrounding objects. Lienhard is a member of a collective of graffiti artists and illustrators called Schwarzmaler and is represented by SOON, and you can see more recent work on his Facebook. Wes21 & ONUR. An Artist Turns Paris into a Playground. Fiet. Fiet is an interactive light object that visualizes the emotional impact of movement.
The object is built out of hundreds of cones which emphasize the motion of the surface. The points of the cones move closer to each other or expand when the skin is moving. All this happens by the influence of sounds surrounding the object. You will see the sculpture become stressed when there is a sudden noise, but when it ’s quiet and peaceful it will move in a comfortable manner. It ’s like a living organism that interacts with its environment. Toer's passion is to explore the boundaries of product and spatial design. SpY, street art, urban art. 2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery. Spanish visual artist Ana Soler is known for working with a multitude of objects from dangling hundreds of pairs of scissors or spoons, to creating dense clouds of string, coins, and paper cranes.
In her most recent work, Causa-Efecto (Cause & Effect), she hung 2,000 tennis balls in spaces throughout the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante, Spain. The balls are carefully aligned in suspended trajectories that appear to bounce off walls, floors, and other surfaces providing an uncanny sense of motion similar to a photograph taken with a strobe light. See much more on Soler’s fancy Flash website. (via collabcubed) Rainbow Toy Car Installation Made from 2,500 Cars.
This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids. A Frugal Town in Lithuania Erects a Christmas Tree Made from 40,000 Recycled Plastic Bottles. Okay municipalities of the world, pay attention.
For a third consecutive year the city of Kaunas, Lithuania approached artist Jolanta Šmidtienė to assist with their annual holiday decorating. Recognizing the city’s somewhat dire financial state the artist challenged herself to build something that wouldn’t rely on any administrative funds set aside for the event. The result: an enormous 13-meter tall Christmas tree made from nearly 40,000 recycled green bottles and zip ties. At night the tree is lit from the inside resulting in a glowing, translucent, emerald green spruce that’s making headlines across the country. I would love it if Chicago had the ambition to do something like this. A Stunning, Intricate Maze Made From 2,200 Pounds of Salt. Motoi Yamamoto has to be the most patient man in the world.
TYPOE_CONFETTI-DEATH_1_900px.jpg (JPEG Image, 900x603 pixels) Dream Big « Pete Fecteau. Dream Big (computer generated draft) Pete at work on the mosaic – Photo by Paul L.
Dice Sculptures by Tony Cragg. So this is definitely jaw dropper of the day.
How impressive are these dice sculptures by Tony Cragg? Artist Tony Cragg recently unveiled the sculpture you see in the first 3 images at FIAC 2011 in Paris. Zp8497586rq. Exposing Texas's Ungodly Heat, With Giant Melting Crayon Sculptures. Blazes have been ripping across Texas this year, as the state endures its worst drought in history.
To educate the public about wildfires, the National Ranching Heritage Center (NRHC) in Lubbock commissioned Tennessee artist Herb Williams to construct a smattering of giant, flame-shaped sculptures, some 8 feet tall, using 60,000 to 70,000 Crayola crayons. As time passes, the crayons melt and warp on the landscape, their slumped forms exposing the parched, blowy conditions that feed real flames.
Unwanted Visitor: Portrait of Wildfire opened October 7 and already, as you can see in the photo above, the sculptures have liquefied significantly. Williams built Unwanted Visitor with a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. “We were very excited about this because their budget has been cut so drastically this year,” NRHC’s Emily Arellano tells Co.Design. [Images courtesy of the National Ranching Heritage Center]
21 Amazing Examples Of Shadow Art. Gabriel dawe + mixed media and installation artist. With a Passion for Skateboarding: Creative Art Sculptures by Haroshi. Now that’s a sick madness!
If you have never heard about Japanese wood sculptor named Haroshi, go get the wind of his most original conceptual art. As a creator of amazingly beautiful wooden sculptures out of old, crashed and broken skateboard decks, Haroshi passed for a man of considerable resourcefulness. His multicolored and meticulously sculpted art pieces simply astound with lifelike affinity, so in whichever way it’s even possible to mistake them for being real!
In his works he stacks many layers with all piece elements being connected either in their original form or in shapes to form wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels. After that they’re cut down to size, shaven to get rid of the debris, and afterwards coated with a final glossy finish. Source Source Source Source. Current Exhibitions. Infinity Room - Fireflies on the Water, by Yayoi Kusama. Drowning Beautiful. 65,000 Old CDs Create a Shimmering Sea. We'll never look at CDs the same away again after seeing these images of Wastelandscape, an installation by French artist Elise Morin composed of 65,000 old CDs. Care to see this in person?
You'll find it in Paris at the Centquatre art space, which was formerly a funeral home. The space is now a unique center for creativity that's open to all types of artistic expression including music, dance and theater. The artist envisioned Wastelandscape to be like "a still sea of metallic dunes. " The CDs were hand-sewn together into an astounding 500-square meter surface and then draped over inflatable mounds.