Sculpture Art

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Balloon art gone right!

Photos via WillyChyr.com

Sculpteur: Stephane Halleux

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Recycled Toy Sculptures

Robert Bradford creates his life-size and larger-than-life sculptures of humans and animals from discarded plastic items, mainly toys but also other colorful plastic bits and pieces, such as combs and buttons, brushes and parts of clothes pegs.

Contrary to some reports, he’s not a self-taught artist who tinkered in his shed one day and suddenly decided to create something out of his kids’ discarded toys. He is a London-born and U.K. and U.S.-trained visual artist who, like many artists, also had another career on the side. His was that of a psychotherapist.



In 2002, he started to consider the possibilities that his children’s forgotten toys could have as part of something bigger. Bradford says he likes the idea that the plastic pieces have a history, some unknown past, and that they also pass on a “cultural” history as each of the pieces represents a point in time. Recycling is not his primary concern, but each sculpture certainly keeps quite a few pieces from becoming landfill. Some of the sculptures contain pieces from up to 3,000 toys and sell for £12,000 (US$19,000). - Tuija Seipell

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James Roper

Wow! So much talent from James Roper! From drawing to painting to graphic work and even sculpture, this guy has a style that Kanye West would lose his shit over.

The Ecstasy of Jenna Jameson II
mixed media on paper
29.5cm x 42cm
2006
The Ecstasy of Puma Swede
mixed media on paper
29.5cm x 42cm
2006
Devotion (mandala)
2005
Deep structure dispersal
acrylic on canvas
120cm x 120cm
2008
Autosarcophagy (The host within the host)
acrylic on canvas
120cm x 100cm
2009
As illusions burst
2006

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Pharrell Williams and Takashi Murakami

Twenty six thousand stones, that’s diamonds and gold, an Ice-Cream Sneaker, pink Johnson and Johnson baby lotion, a Magnolia Bakery cupcake, Heinz Ketchup, a can of Pepsi, a condom, and a bag of Doritos. All inside the mouth of the Takashi Murakami character Mr. Dob - high on mushrooms (seriously that’s part of the concept.) That’s the collaborative effort, in simple terms, between artists and entrepreneurs Virginia born Pharrell Williams and Tokyo born Takashi Murakami. This year’s Art Basel (AB #40, 2009) played host to this wild creation which just sold for more than $2 Million Dollars.

The artwork titled “Simple Things” was manufactured by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd in collaboration with Jacob & Co. (aka Jacob the Jeweler). It was started some time early 2007, taking two years to come to complete fruition.






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What to do with your wall of stank

With the City of Toronto finally reaching an agreement on the four week, 36 day garbage strike, as of next week Torontonians can kick it to the curbside once more.

Unfortunately, rumors are that part of the agreement is for households to only put out one garbage bin at a time, so additional recycling goods and garbage stores that have already become a treasured part of your Stank Family across the last month could still remain a house guest for at least another 3 weeks, yippee!

The question is what to do with your wall of stank...

Lucky for us we have Paris resident and sculpteur du papier extraordinaire JUNIOR JACQUET, who likes to transform left over toilet paper rolls into sculptures of faces:



Perhaps one could create a porch full of angry toilet paper roll faces for when the eventual collection does occur??
Just sayin'...

More on Junior Jacquet here.

Richard J. Evans

Typographic sculpture from the portfolio of Richard J. Evans exhibited at Free Range Graduate Art & Design Show.

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Artist: Johnny Kelly

Johnny Kelly was born in Ireland and now works and resides in the UK. He's an animator and illustrator who does some phenomenal work with paper. Creating these vibrant sculptures and then capturing them with photographs. First is a mask commissioned by Don't Panic.



And here is an amazing mask that I wish I could wear around all the time. My superhero name would be BAR GRAPH. Intimidating.




Giving Bombo a run for his money.

You can find more on his website and flickr.

Artist: Reuben Margolin

If you're looking for something different and progressive in sculpture art. I dare you to check out this video of Reuben Margolin's moving pieces. Bio-kinetics at its best

http://www.reubenmargolin.com/