Ghost...

British artist Rachel Whiteread is well known for her original sculptures with which she seeks to express the idea of space, room, void. She does this mainly by making casts of various objects.

In one of her first works, entitled “Shovel”,  she made a cast of her own back and attached a handle on top of it, so that it would resemble a shovel. 

One of her larger scale works, entitled “Ghost” is yet another cast: its mould was an entire living-room in a Victorian house: Whiteread had the walls of the living-room cast in units of plaster that were then mounted together so that the structure and volume of the original Victorian living-room becomes visible. Negative imprints, such as the open fireplace clarifies that we are in fact dealing with the INSIDE of a room.



Rachel Whiteread: Ghost, 1990, plaster, 270x318x365cm



A new type of sculpture!

Today we’d like to introduce you to a whole new type of sculpture, made by Brooklyn-based artist Nick van Woert.

Van Woert makes weird, awesome and unique sculptures, in which he combines marble busts with polyurethane plastic in adhesive form. The plastic is to be understood as “attacking” the busts. Van Woert himself refers to these sculptures as:  "a hijacking of the art historical past”.

Van Woert is currently partaking in exhibitions worldwide and is represented by the most renowned galleries.



Nick van Woert: Poor me

 




Nick van Woert: Eclipse (yellow)



Nick van Woert: Untitled



Is this the new leader of the free world?

With the U.S. elections soon aproaching a new candidate has emerged
The sculpture of a cow made from butter, shown at the biggest agricultural exhibition in Iowa proved to be so popular that Jack Mathews has begun a campaign to get the Butter Cow in the presidential running. He started a website, buttercow2012.com, which is currently conducting its own pole. Here Butter Cow received 62% of the votes, almost four times more than President Obama's 16%.
The website describes the candidate as "udderly fantastic" with strong "grass roots values". The candidate hasn't made any comments yet, but one thing that he will be out to prove is that being inhuman isn't all that bad.

Official campaign T-shirt

Hyperrealist sculpture



Ron Mueck is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor who started his career as a puppeteer for children’s television programmes and later transitioned to fine art. In his sculptures, Mueck reproduces every little detail of the human body.

The key change, however, is the change of size (most sculptures are oversized while others are on a much smaller scale).  The artist has been hailed by some critics as ‘the greatest thing to happen in sculpture’, while others merely view him as a model maker.

Ron Mueck: Head of a baby (2003)



Ron Mueck: In bed (2005)



Ron Mueck: Boy




 Mueck’s most well-known sculpture is a work titled “Dead Dad”:  a hyperrealist sculpture of the corpse of his father. Mueck works with various materials such as fiberglass resin, latex and silicone. 

Ron Mueck: Dead Dad







Bones of Kallat

We’d like to introduce you to Indian Mumbai based artist Jitish Kallat: Kallat –whose  work includes various media such as photography, video, painting and sculpture - often uses bones (don’t worry they’re fiberglass, nobody was dug up) in his works. His piece “Public Notice 2” recalls the historic speech delivered by Mahatma Gandhi  on the eve of the renowned Salt March. In this speech, the Mahatma called  for complete civil disobedience, but also for  non-violence and peace. The work, which exists out of 4500 bone shaped letters, stands in haunting contrast to the call for peace.

Jitish Kallat "Public Notice 2"

Kallat is also known for his collection of ‘bone cars’: various cars and trucks all made out of fiberglass bone.  Like “Public Notice 2” these cars are simply haunting.  Anyone who’s familiar with Indian traffic can understand these works

Jitish Kallat: Auto-rickshaw

Jitish Kallat: bone car

The tail-less mermaid of Hamburg

A giant sculpture of a mermaid which has risen in  Hamburg’s Alster Lake, is attracting numerous tourists. The mermaid is made of Styrofoam and steel and will be on display for 10 days.  The work was designed by German artist and head of the advertising academy “Miami Ad School”, Oliver Voss.

Interestingly, the sculpture was sponsored by Marcia Kilgore: owner of cosmetics company Soap and Glory.

Unable to decide whether it looks scary or not, the only thing we’re left wondering about, was  what the hell happened to her tail?