Tag Archives: sculpture

Kim Hyun’s Dice Figures

Korean artist Kim Hyun constructs these delicate figures by running wire through dice, using the plaster casts of actual people as a guide. You can click the images above for a bit more detail. (via mu-um and neolook)

Mind-bending Sculptures by Bhac Ji-Ho

Mind bending Sculptures by Bhac Ji Ho sculpture faces body

Continuing a parade of Korean artists featured on Colossal since last week, behold the sculptural work of Bhac Ji-Ho. Like some of the others, information about this sculptor is extremely scare, and what I can find seems almost incomprehensible to me when using Google translate. Ji-Ho created these sculptures out of a unique synthetic resin that results in a smooth, almost plastic texture.

By Christopher on June 29, 2011 • body faces sculpture

Kinetic Sculptures by Mihai Bonciu

Kinetic Sculptures by Mihai Bonciu sculpture kinetic sculpture automata

I love that these wiry automata by Mihai Bonciu require complex components to make such simple actions. They also seem so incredibly delicate, like winding them the wrong way could cause the entire contraption to collapse. More please!

By Christopher on June 28, 2011 • automata kinetic sculpture sculpture

Otherworldly Paper Sculptures by Chun Kwang Young

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Sculptor Chun Kwang Young uses a seemingly infinite quantity of small foam wedges wrapped in Korean mulberry paper to create imposing, meteoric installations that seem to crack and splinter like fractals. Via the New York Times:

Chun’s preference for using natural dyes and handmade mulberry paper was born from childhood memories of his uncle’s pharmacy, where small medicinal herb parcels that were similarly wrapped with paper and hung in tight clusters from the ceiling in order to protect them from insects. [...] “I love nature and I want to live my life in harmony with nature,” he said. “Our ancestors lived modestly and simply, and thought all lives should be respected. “I hope my work can take this traditional Korean message forward to modern society.”

Like yesterday’s paintings by Kim Hyo-Suk it’s difficult to imagine without seeing these in person that they’re actually real. (images courtesy ravenel, nate dorr, mu-um, and jasmine trabelsi)

By Christopher on June 28, 2011 • giant multiples paper sculpture

The Woodwork of Cha Jong-Rye

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Korean sculptor Cha Jong-Rye works with wood as if it were clay or paint. She layers and sands hundreds of delicate wood pieces to create pockmarked canvases, threatening beds of thorns, or wall-sized recreations of crumpled cloth napkins. Jong-Rye completed her graduate work at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul in 1996 and has had numerous group exhibits and five solo shows, her latest at the Sungkok Art Museum. I am completely hypnotized by these sculptures and in total awe of the painstaking craft on display here. If you like this, you might also enjoy the work of Ben Butler.

By Christopher on June 24, 2011 • sculpture wood

New work by Pei-San Ng

A wonderful new piece from Chicago artist and architect Pei-San Ng (previously) who makes tightly compact sculptural pieces out of matches. This latest work, a bold phoenix with an appropriate ashen tail is the most complex piece I’ve seen from her. This sculpture and some new typographical works are for sale in her shop. (via my modern met)

By Christopher on June 21, 2011 • birds fire matches multiples sculpture

Expansion by Paige Bradley

Wow. Just wow. I haven’t encountered a piece of sculpture so beautiful in quite some time. Expansion is a recent work by sculptor Paige Bradley. (via eat like a whale, curse like a sailor)

By Christopher on June 16, 2011 • body installation light New York sculpture yoga

Match Man

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I don’t normally post two things from an artist in one day; however this seemed too good to pass up, especially due to this blog’s affinity for matches. Ryo Shimizu created this delicate human shell out of hundreds of matches entitled Matchstick Drawing. How macabrely awesome it would have been to watch this figure meet his flaming demise.