“Humankind has become the driving influence and force behind natural evolution, with the ability to alter life from a single cell all the way up to entire ecosystems. Through these actions we are leaving vulnerable species and habitats frantic, facing disruptions and uncertain outcomes. In my work I explore these actions while also creating an evocative and mysterious narrative that shows our interdependence with the land and animals around us. Delicate Dependencies is an exploration of these ideas shown through plants and animals native to the western United States. These creatures exist in habitats stressed or impacted by human activity, leading them to an unclear future. They inhabit a space…
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What A Time To Be Alive by Joachim Ojanen
A series by Stockholm based artist and designer Joachim Ojanen featuring cartoon like characters in paintings and sculptures. See some selectede works below:
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Volkswagen Balls by Ichwan Noor
Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor takes vintage Volkswagen Beetles and manipulates them into crisp circles and cubes. All the parts are real and supplied by the German Volkswagen company. See the series below:
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Abused Porcelain by Laurent Craste
Montreal based artist Laurent Craste creates a series titled Sévices featuring sculptures being tortured and smashed by an axe, baseball bats, scissors and more. See the series below:
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Alphabet Aerobics by Anton Alvarez
A series by artist Anton Alvarez where masses resembling white pillers seem to warp and mutate under gravity. See the series below:
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Illustrations on Skulls by DZO Olivier
A morbidly beautiful series by French artist DZO Olivier where animal skulls are manipulated and become sculptures by placing black ink beastlike illustraions. See the series below:
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Graham, the Only Human Body that can Survive a Car Crash.
Graham may look very different, but unlike the rest of us he is fully equipped to survive a car crash. Australian Commission of Road Accidents presented to project by teaming up with artist Patricia Piccinini to create the first man who genetically evolved into withstanding major physical trauma. See the series below:
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Lincoln Vignette by Linda Cordell
Sculpture Linda Cordell creates a morbid porcelaine vignette figure of Abraham Lincoln with flesh hanging from his shoulders as an eager rat approaches. See porcelain statue below: “Socially awkward and full of repressed anger, I anesthetize myself spending mindless hours carving detailed texture on humorous and/or uncomfortable animal sculptures. A child of the revisionist era, my work reinterprets the figurine enabling animals to break the chains of cuteness and noble savagery. An appreciation of the ridiculous, a love of beauty and skilled craftsmanship, and the belief that domestic objects are social propaganda all contribute to my work.”
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Jewel Encrusted Rotting Fruit by Luciana Rondolini
The Tiffany Project is a series by Buenos Aires based artist Luciana Rondolini where we find rotting fruit bejeweled in memorizing glitter filled patterns. “The brilliance of novelty makes us forget the real value of objects, and the fact that they are all perishable and doomed to become obsolete. These fruits, then, work as a Vanitas, reminding us of the deterioration and forgetfulness to which all things are subjected.” -Luciana Rondolini All images © Luciana Rondolini
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Explosive Sculptures by Samuel Yal
Samuel Yal creates distorted and explosive sculpture installations with ghostly white faces and heads. See some selected works below:
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Surreal Sculptures by Alessandro Boezio
Slightly morbid surreal sculpture installations by artist Alessandro Boezio presenting combinations and retractions familiar limbs. See some selected works below:
