Artist Brian Dettmer
From KINZ, TILLOU + FEIGEN:
Brian Dettmer sifts through stacks of antiquated books,
boxes of dusty cassette tapes, and piles of obsolete maps to uncover
the perfect source and subject for his conceptual explorations and
sculptural dissections. Dettmer alters pre-existing materials by
selectively removing and manipulating elements as a way to allow new
interpretations and ideas to emerge. With the precision of a surgeon,
Dettmer uses scalpels, tweezers, and other medical instruments to carve
into the surface of his found objects to reveal hidden meanings.
Brian Dettmer has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout North America and Europe. His work has been featured in several books and in 2007 he was selected as the featured artist by the Illinois Art Education Association, a program in which images of his work were incorporated into lesson plans for student art projects.
Steam Punk Sculptures by Pierre Matter
Pierre Matter is a French born artist known for his strangely beautiful sculptures. They remind me a lot of one of my all time favorite artists, H.R. Geiger.
Below is my attempt at translation from the French Wikipedia entry. Is it just me or is the biography in French written in a very bizarre way?
After a rather mystical childhood, Pierre Matter pursues, without great conviction, general studies in mathematics while in parallel escaping into artistic creation. He tries his hand at gouache and water color, but only much later on finds his own medium. Taking the road less travelled leads him into agriculture and construction work, passing by comic books and stone bas-reliefs.
He finally settles for a form of sculpture that has always seemed
obvious to him. “We live at a turning point in time which makes and will make appear in reality some hybrid, monstrous and mythological beings. Even mountain cows are nothing more than milk machines.” Fusing nature and a technical civilization, his metal-animals translate the interweaving relationship between nature and man. They reflect the always present possibility of monstrosity while also radiating a feeling of empowerment that modern technology seems to offer.He currently works in his studio (an old garage) in Buhl. His work is exposed at the Opera galleries in New York, Paris, and Singapour while being little known in Alsace and in France.
See more of Pierre Matter’s sculptures at the Opera gallery site
Crazy Mecha Lego
Lego fanatic Bryce McGlone creates sculptures using the famous plastic pieces, many of which are based on mecha, those huge mechanical robots so popular in Japanese animation films.
As a Lego purist, Bryce never glues any parts together and is constantly experimenting with new building techniques. One way to construct, which he calls “weaving”, is a multi layered approached to putting Lego pieces together where there isn’t necessarily a central core to support the whole piece.
Bryce McGlone site
