Tag: sculptures
German artist Nadine Wottke’s sculptures are a great contribution to the genre of art-by-juxtaposition: she makes small porcelain figurines of the type most closely associated with wholesome, kitschy depictions of angels and children, but re-shapes them to have everyday bodies (soft bellies and sagging breasts) posed in sexually explicit positions. She adds to the off-ness […]
Oral:phabet is a font experimentation project by graphic designer Takayuki Ogawa — a three-dimensional typeface, re-imagined with mouths enunciating each letter. Spoon Tamago explains: “The mouth alone is able to express many emotions,” says Ogawa, speaking about the impetus for his project, which was presented as his graduating thesis last year from Tama Art University. “For example, in email we use […]
Kepler’s Dream merges the archaic medium of analog projection with the latest 3D-printing technology, specifically CINEMA 4D, XPresso, MoGraph, NetFab and Shapeways. The resulting installation by Michael Burk & Ann-Katrin Krenz for the Digitale Klasse (Berlin University of the Arts) produces unique and ephemeral visuals. See the video above for a demonstration. Mixing digital aesthetics – parametric and generative shapes – with […]
Brooklyn artist Evan Desmond Yee didn’t know that the vintage reels he bought at a California flea market contained porn starring ’70s XXX starlet Annie Sprinkle. Yee preserved these artifacts from “the Turn of the Age of Pornography” as altered sculptural objects in light boxes. “I wanted to create something that looks like an advertising-fetish object and still retains its historical […]
