Think it’s all been done before? Take a note from Stephen Knapp who created lightpaintings, a medium that’s been called one of the first new art mediums of the twenty-first century. Formed at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and architecture, lightpaintings are intangible, multi-dimensional compositions that need an entire room to be experienced
When you’re a fashion designer who ends up with too much inspiration you take it to the obvious place, your own bathroom. Roza Khamitova, who has clothing line Shovava, started by adhering her illustrations to the stark white bathroom walls and then connected them with more drawings. After working through bubbling paper and varnishes, her bathroom is a virtual forest full of birds, greenery, and more. I guess it’s always a good idea to have a fallback career!
I’d be happy if the windows in my home looked like the ones in this Margaret Honda installation at Künstlerhaus Bremen, a part of An Answer to ‘Sculptures’. She used a variety of lighting filters to creating this spectacular rainbow of glass and the result is nothing short of smile-inducing!
The word that comes to mind when I view Jim Osman‘s sculptures and installations is this – balance. In physicality, in use of color, and in viewing. Nearly all of Jim’s work uses wood, paper, paper, and hardware for stability, in the end reminding me of the most stunning game of Jenga.
French artist Claire Trotignon employs drawing, collage, screen-printing, and installation as she explores the concept of space through architecture, landscape, and mapping. Claire says her inspiration comes from “everywhere at any moment” and cites music, film, travel, and books as notable sources.
Artist Loris Cecchini’s ongoing series of relief sculptures, entitled Extruding Bodies, create impressions on gallery walls. The polyester resin Cecchini uses is designed to lie flat against a surface, with the result resembling a vibrating pool of water or household objects attempting to push through from the next room.
Many of Lauren Clay‘s sculptural installations look like you could pull them off the wall for a quick snuggle. And while they’re perfect on their own, Clay sometimes pairs them with beautifully created spaces that make them all the more complete. But these pieces are only the start of a laundry list of sculptural styles – take a look.
1/ Cheryl Sorg
2/ All Things Coffee
3/ Daniel Taylor
4/ Marc Figueras
5/ Mix&Match
6/ All Patched Up
7/ Rice Krispie Treats 12 Ways
8/ Tom Blachford’s Midnight Modern
9/ Alessandro Calabrese’s A Failed Entertainment
1/ Russian family poses for sweet and surreal photos with a real bear in the woods.
2/ Exploding paint cans in slow motion.
3/ Camera traps capture striking photos of African animals at night.
4/ The crazy things you can use as tiles.
5/ Mesmerizing acrylic and resin swirl table brings the universe to the dining room.
6/ Technicolor rainbow tape floor installations by Jim Lambie.
7/ The Moment, a short animation that will punch you in the gut with emotions.
8/ A stunning house that can change colors like a mood ring.
9/ An antique piano cut in half, connected only by a wishbone.
Think we can DIY this in my house? Peter Zimmermann covered 1,400 square feet of floor with layers of brighty colored resin in abstract patterns at Museum für Neue Kunst in his hometown of Freiburg, Germany. Peter’s entire portfolio is nothing but joy-inducing, so definitely click over and have a look!
1/Christo floats a 3km walkway across an Italian lake 2/This company is revolutionizing the way we put on sunscreen 3/Thirteen animals made from 13 circles 4/Glittering galaxy-inspired donuts 5/Works by Van Gogh recreated by swirling pain in water 6/Lifelike wooden animals sculpted using a chainsaw 7/MI Guitar can make us all experts 8/This plate absorbs excess oil from food 9/Ceramic shards found on the beach are turned into chopstick rests using kintsugi 10/Shitty Rigs, a tumblr of DIY filmmaking rigs 11/A turntable that lets your friends know what you’re listening to 12/Tattoos that integrate ink with body curvature
1/Courtney Mattison’s Our Changing Seas 2/Backyard Spaces 3/Benoit Paille’s Surreal Mexico 4/Abeego 5/Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains 6/House Plant Mobiles 7/Bodil Jane 8/The Dreslyn Tarot Deck + Guidebook 9/Rose Wong