Bob Potts Kinetic Sculptures

Pip & Pop

Pip & Pop:

Installations magiques du duo australien Pip & Pop (Nicole Andrijevic et Tanya Shultz), réalisées avec un grand souci du détail à partir de petits objets et matériaux aussi divers que sucre, paillettes, figurines, perles, décorations pour gâteaux, etc.
Leur site : http://www.pipandpop.com.au/

Circuit Board Fossils, Paintings and Other Found Object Sculptures by Peter McFarlane

Circuit Board Fossils, Paintings and Other Found Object Sculptures by Peter McFarlane:

Mixed media and installation artist Peter McFarlane has spent his life turning found objects, computer waste and other discarded materials into sculptures, installations, and even the backdrops of paintings. Of his work McFarlane says:

To me, waste is just lack of imagination. This belief carries beyond the boundaries of my art production and permeates most aspects of my life. Most of my home and studio, and much of everything in them, is recycled. I’ve always had an epic imagination along with a driving desire to make things. Thus, used objects have pared my options down to a workable, manageable level. No object is beyond artistic merit, meaning and metaphor. So why throw it out? The materials of my work are connected intrinsically to my ideas, be they tailored beyond recognition or left as found. Each piece I make resurrects an object as an idea specific to the material and the meaning inherent in its use. The history of the object — from the manufacture to the dumpster — embellishes its contexts and the possibilities I have to manipulate them. I have often made a connection with the objects that I’ve used in my everyday life or work experience: that which I know.

You can see much more of his work over at Saatchi Online as well as in his portfolio and he recently had a show of chainsaw sculptures (!) at Pegasus Gallery in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia just last month.

New Rural Light and Book Installations by Rune Guneriussen

New Rural Light and Book Installations by Rune Guneriussen:

A grid of physical entities, 2012

A capacity to breed and recover, 2011

Circle of reception, 2011

An upward displacement, 2010

Resound with an echo, 2011

Revisit the revolution, 2012

Second system of ethics, 2012

Science of planting forest, 2010

Norwegian conceptual artist Rune Guneriussen (previously) explores a fascinating balance of human culture and nature with his outdoor installations of electric lamps, stacked books, chairs, and phones that appear to have gathered in small herds and swarms as if suddenly sentient. Each work is assembled and photographed on-site without any digital intervention in various rural locations around Norway. Guneriussen just updates his website with nearly two dozen new photos of works over the past three years (the photos are scattered around the site, but it’s well worth the clicking) and also opened a show at Rheingalerie Bonn gallery which runs through November 10. (via my modern met)

Memory Lane: mini men melting a sign of the times

Memory Lane: mini men melting a sign of the times:
Global warming is in the news at the moment, paradoxically because the US Presidential candidates are refusing to talk about it. So Beautiful Crime will. Today we’re revisiting part of Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo’s programme of installations ‘Minimum Monument’, which she began in 2005.

‘Minimum Monument’ was originally intended as a critical reading of monuments in big cities; she carved little ice figures and placed them on steps and around public spaces, giving these tiny ephemeral people centre stage among the heroes those monuments were meant for. Though Azevedo never set out to be an environmental campaigner, because they melted, and because thousands of people saw them, the ice figures were inevitably adopted as symbols of climate change; in September 2009 she collaborated with the World Wildlife Fund to create ‘Melting Men’ on the steps of the Concert Hall in Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt.

Azevedo sculpted 1000 figures and left them out in 23 degrees C/73F heat. They started to melt within half an hour, and shortly after that there was nothing left of the installation except photographs and a large puddle. This was a small-scale representation of what could happen if the ice caps in Greenland and the Arctic are allowed to melt – photographic evidence that they once existed and, rather than just a puddle, rising sea levels with potentially devastating consequences.
by Jennie Gillions



Images from unurth.com and neleazevedo.com.br

Daniel Kornrumpf

Daniel Kornrumpf:





Aunque el artista Daniel Kornrumpf tiene preciosas pinturas en su portfolio, me quedé maravillado cuando ví sus retratos hechos mediante bordados. ¿Pensabas que esta técnica era solo para abuelas? ¡Todo el mundo a coser!
Although the artist Daniel Kornrumpf has beautiful paintings in his portfolio, I really shocked when I saw his portraits made by embroidery. Do you think this technique was only for grandmas? Let’s sew!