Sculpture by Caterina Silenzi
Tags: anatomical-themed, animal skulls, antlers, ceramic, conceptual, installation art, sculptures, weird sculptures
The Trembling Fires of Dreams: An Installation
In contrast to the last “deer-related” post, this is an intriguing installation artwork by Gene Guynn, titled The Trembling Fires of Dreams, which is made from resin, enamel, and yarn, and depicts a lying white deer being circled by two black jackals. The deer has a triangle opening painted on its side, seeming to indicate a kind of vivisection, the exposure of the deer’s internals, with multicolored strands of yarn stretching up and outwards, and also pinning the deer down to the ground on either side. The jackals are attached to all black, frayed strings.
Tags: animals, black and white, deer, installation art, strings, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, vivisected
Reddened Mouths, White Masks, Hungry Fingers
These are ever-so-creepy installation artworks by Israeli sculptor Ronit Baranga
(via Acidolatte):
Tags: conceptual, installation art, masks, sculptures, surreal horror, teacups
Kate MacDowell
Kate MacDowell makes incredible works of art, akin to installation pieces, out of porcelain, a medium she chose for its “luminous and ghostly qualities as well as its strength and ability to show fine texture.”
Detailed and realistic, these pieces make loud and piercing statements about the troubled relationship between man and the natural world, but remain elegant and delicate. They “borrow from myth” (one example is this piece, titled Persephone, which references the myth of Persephone’s abduction by Hades to the Underworld, in which she mistakenly eats the seeds of a pomegranate he offers to her, thus forcing her to spend a quarter of each year in the Underworld – in MacDowell’s vision, the pomegranate’s seeds are actually pills, tablets with a neat little line down the middle); other sources of inspiration include “art history, figures of speech, and other cultural touchstones.”
The pieces are visual metaphors, or illustrated “figures of speech,” such as a pair of lungs with canaries inside them, or a dead rabbit containing a human skeleton. In MacDowell’s world, man and nature are grafted to each other, repeatedly, in surreal and subtly horrific ways. As she explains, often “aspects of the human figure stand in for ourselves and act out sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current relationship with the natural world.”
Check out her work below, and be amazed. More can be seen on her Website.
Tags: anatomical-themed, animals, conceptual, environmentalism, greek mythology, installation art, kate macdowell, metamorphosis, political, porcelain, rabbits, surreal
The Invisible People
Jin Young Yu makes these totally unique, incredible full-size (though they look miniature in pictures) sculptures out of transparent PVC. They represent his concept of the “invisible people”: “It was too simple to define them as ‘the alienated people’ or ‘the depressed people.’ Instead, I thought that I, or we, could easily be one of them. My works are about people who…choose to keep a distance from [others], and be invisible, or left alone, unconcerned. Instead of trying to fit into the world, they climb into a space of their own and reject other people’s intrusions. [They] feign expressionless faces. They are holding their tears back and swallowing them, or they try to put on a cool face…”
A few other of his pieces that I love:
Rain girls
Mother and childTags: installation art, jin young yu, sculptures, urban alienation
Fine China Autopsy Art
by Beccy Ridsel
See more over here: Stripped to the Bone
Tags: autopsy, beccy ridsel, installation art, medical-themed, porcelain, surreal
Categories
Search
Contact
© 2010-2011 Synesthesia Garden