Chris Gilmour's cardboard objects

Besides sharing a surname with a famous guitarist, Chris Gilmour is recognized for a mastery in cardboard and glue, proving that you can master anything if you really want to. Subtle, yet curious on not only technical level - deconstructing the form and then renewing it in a completely unsuitable material is somehow reverse approach to design - how it forces us to re-think our frames and boxes and embrace the useless ideas, only to find out that uselessness is subjective.

John Grade - Sculpture

These grand, biomorphic structures hanging above your head are the work of John Grade, an American sculptor. After drawing intricate sketches and making medium-sized models, he proceeds to make his art from natural materials. Clean, minimalistic forms are warming and slightly overwhelming - just like the nature itself.

Jean Shin - sculpture

Artists who use a variety of media are always hard to put here. From a rich collection I am forced to choose ten pictures and present them with few sentences. And that was the case with Jean Shin, who draws, prints, photographs, sculpts, records and does other great stuff - so I chose her sculptures. Trophies for ordinary workmen, lottery tickets cities and deconstructed clothing - conceptual, thought-provoking, good art.

Bonsoir Paris - Duramen sculptures

Bonsoir Paris is a French (if it's not obvious) multi-art collective of two designers. They produce design in a means of graphics, products and interiors, as well as installations and sculptures. Yes, the sculptures. Dali-esque, melting wooden frames, dripping suspended in time. This idea might've been used a lot, but the execution here is flawless and produces a surprising, aesthetically pleasing effect.

James Prochnik - Object Poems

I feel there's something special about assemblages. Collections of found our ready-made objects put together in a kind of art that lies between sculpture and installation, doused with a lot of coneptualism. The meeting of originally unconnected items can bring out memories and feelings that you thought weren't there anymore.

And that is the case with the works of James Prochnik (and several other artists co-working with him in some cases) - the man wanders around antique stores looking for things that evoke something in him, striving to create "sculptural haikus - concise and precise artworks that reflect on time, aging, dreams, and mysteries of the spirit (...)". Exceptional art, something that, through initially weird, reaches deep within us. Something perceived as ugly, yet somehow beautiful.

Mauro Fuke - Sculptures

We already have one artist experimenting with math. This time, a Brazilian artist Mauro Fuke transfer the wonderful world of arithmetics and geometry into three-dimensional sculptures. Those are characterized by elegant, simple shape and imaginative forms.

Source: http://mauro-fuke-sculptures.blogspot.com/

Richard William Wheater - Neon Structures

This British artist specializes in garish installations made of neons, which instantly command attention of the viewer. Grown out of pop art, neons in art are mostly used to criticize today's consumerist culture, yet Wheater's structures are strangely enthralling and pleasing to the eye.

Source: http://www.richardwheater.com/Artwork/artwork.html

 

Thomas Beale

It's been a while sine we've featured a sculptor. Now I want to make up for that with incredible works of New York-based Thomas Beale. Young artist and founder of the Honey Space (seriously, check it out) creates great (in size and artisticvalue) objects out of reclaimed wood.

Source: http://tbeale.com/

Jonathan Mess - Cross Sections

"I am an artist, investigator, experimenter, explorer and educator. I digest life through my art-making practice" writes Mess in his statement. His works might look messy indeed - made of clay, resembling pieces of dug up earth, but covered in colorful enamel. Pretty innovative and creative, if you ask me.

Source: http://www.jonathanmess.com/work/cross-sections/

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Seo Young Deok - sculptures

If I told you about a Korean sculptor, who lists his inspirations as traditional Asian art, human body and metro stations, what would you think of? Probably not of what it really is - great constructs made of bicycle chain.

Source: http://blog.naver.com/duck8383

Yong Ho Ji - recycled sculptures

This Korean sculptor uses rubber from used tires in order to create his multi-layered, elaborate works.

Source: http://yonghoji.com/index.html