The Italian artist Maurizio Savini makes amazing sculptures with fibreglass and pink chewing gum. Mario Codognato wrote about his work:

The sensual act of chewing, the voluptuous warmth of rebelling saliva, the artificial and secretly aseptic fragrance which spreads from the mouth as a promise and missed kiss. The synthetic fleshliness of the pink color, the obsessive square shape of the product unwrapped and ready to be shred to pieces by the power of the tongue, all compete in crashing on the senses. Applying all this to the power and energy of the Sculpture and its history causes a short circuit having the capacity of turning the ludic into stately and vice versa. The strict minimalism of parallelepiped is subverted by the uniform coating with many bars of chewing-gum completely cover it, rendering chewable to desire, soft and provoking to forbidden touch, what was abstract and distant.

More images of his works at Pastificio Cerere Foundation, Olivier Houg Galerie, artMbassy, Arts blog.it, Angel Art Gallery and bellow. (via Notcot)

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Posted by Bibi on January 25, 2008 01:35 PM in Art, Food, Food, Sculpture ||

Christopher Conte sculptures of skulls, spiders and other insects combine his love for sculpture, medical-science, and biomechanics. His sculptures are created using carbon-fiber, bronze, resin, stainless steel, titanium, aluminium, and even parts of a vintage Singer sewing attachment.

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Posted by Bibi on September 28, 2007 11:29 PM in Art, Sculpture ||

The Canadian artist Jeff de Boer is a Calgary-based multi-media artist with an international reputation for producing some of the world's most original and well-crafted works of art. He creates some incredible metal sculptures, figurative and abstract, suits of armour for cats and mice, armour ties and sword-handled briefcases, rocket lamps and pop culture ray guns. (via Cynical-C)

Posted by Bibi on September 24, 2007 02:16 PM in Cats, Sculpture ||

The artist Nemo Gould has been creating his signature style of kinetic metal and found object sculpture for over 20 years. His portfolio has shows fabulous mixed media and found object sculptures, with a neat retro style. It also includes videos of his creations in movement.

Nemo Gould was cool enough to share the tutorial of the process of four of his last pieces, step-by-step, with lots of process photos at Instructables: the Giant Kinetic Robot sculpture, the Jacob's Ladder Sculpture, the Chopper bicycle and the Giant Squid kinetic sculpture of the picture above. Below, a two-minutes videos of the giant squid moving.

Posted by Bibi on September 15, 2007 01:14 AM in Geek, Sculpture ||

José Geraldo Reis Pfau, a Brazilian advertising professional, reserves his weekends to a productive hobby: creating mini motorcycles with parts of glasses and watches. Part of his private collection, which contains more than 200 pieces, is presented on his site ArtePfau. There are pictures of his neat creations on the page imagens and few more on the PowerPoint presentation to download. (via Make)

Posted by Bibi on September 13, 2007 04:10 PM in Art, Sculpture ||

If you remember of any of my posts with pictures with tiny plastic men and toys, do you know they are usually cheerful and cute or funny. That's not the case, forget them. The work above is part of the little dark universe created and photographed by the Italian artist Adalberto Abbate. His micro sculptures, even been cruel, are very close to our reality, full of disasters and crazy people killing and destroying. In fact, they are reproductions of the sad side of our (modern) society.

His other works include a series of photos, some controversial, a series of panels with iconic images, and mixed media sculptures. (via Notcot)

Posted by Bibi on July 26, 2007 03:51 PM in Art, Photography, Photography, Sculpture ||

The site of Doktor A is full of his fantastic creations: pretty paintings of little men with pointy hats, paintings and illustrations and cute (odd) little fellows called Poddies, dark sculptures of fairies, clowns and creatures, digital illustrations of aliens and bizarre characters, and fantastic toys.

He designed several models of toys: little monsters, strange animals and kind of steampunk creations.They are a cross between the characters of vintage sci-fi pulp books, elements of new steampunk creations and something from a Jules Verne's book. It's tough to describe them, but that's the image which come to my mind the first time I saw the Professor Whistlecraft’s astounding Incendiary Automaton. (via Custom Toy Lab)

Posted by Bibi on July 25, 2007 02:15 AM in Art, Illustration, Painting, Sculpture, Toys ||

If you think a sculpture is the result of the material used, the process and the artists technique and style, add a new items to this list: the acting of environment and time on it. The Underwater Sculpture Gallery shows beautiful images of an underwater sculpture park, created by Jason Taylor in Grenada.

The sculptures highlight ecological processes whilst exploring the intricate relationships between modern art and the environment. By using sculptures to create artificial reefs, the artist’s interventions promote hope and recovery, and underline our need to understand and protect the natural world. [...]
The sculptures are sited in clear shallow waters to afford easy access by divers, snorkellers and those in glass-bottomed boats. Viewers are invited to discover the beauty of our underwater planet and to appreciate the processes of reef evolution.

Posted by Bibi on July 24, 2007 11:46 PM in Art, Sculpture ||

Deanna Molinaro writes and illustrates wonderful not-for-children books that I would like to my kids, if I had some. But why not for children? The books have cute illustrations, adorable creatures and don't have Manichaean stories as the usual books for kids. My favourite is Lonely Sea Monster, which now is available to buy on-line.

She also creates pretty paintings and drawings, and clay sculptures The combination of a cute design with some macabre style is what makes her works very special and so adorable to me. Visit also her blog for news. (via the dead ToM)

Posted by Bibi on July 21, 2007 03:55 AM in Books, Sculpture ||

When I blogged about Lockwasher Design I had no idea that beyond being a talented designer he was also a vintage robot collector or that he had much more robot sculptures than those presented in his site. His Flickr page shows 10 sets with tons images of his robots, rockets and rayguns creations, and vintage Toy robot heads and space toys.

Some of his wonderful creations: BR2D2, a r2d2 version made with a Heineken; the Flat kat made with found objects; the Oil Yeller dog; Eli, the the aluminium elephant; Ms. Domestic Goddess, the robot; Sir Lube of Can-O-Lot robot; an espresso man robot and Robot Franz also made with found objects as almost all, or all, of his sculptures. (via Look At This)

Posted by Bibi on April 2, 2007 03:38 PM in Art, Flickr, Photography, Photography, Sculpture, Toys ||

Tony Price, aka "Atomic Artist", was a multi-artist and antinuclear activist. Among his several creations, his most remarkable work are the sculptures, specially the group of primitive-inspired masks created out of scrap metal, many of them based on Hopi kachinas.

Price explained the intended purpose of his alchemic transformation of atomic salvage into iconography of the world’s spiritual and religious traditions as follows: “Objectively, I knew there exist vast energy banks of super-good energy available. For each religion is like a giant capacitor in the fourth dimension, holding and dispersing the energy of its followers. Now all I had to do was create symbols corresponding to the energy banks of these religions, using the material of the nuclear weapons energy system. When the vibrations of the nuclear scrap have been shaped into spiritual energy images, a vibrational tunnel or bridge is formed from the religious energy banks to the nuclear weapons banks, and an automatic balance of energies would be established. These sculptures act as valves, bringing the dark and light energies together to balance and thus hold the peace”.

I'm to sceptic to believe in all this whole story of energy, but for sure he did a fantastic work. (via Rashomon)

Posted by Bibi on March 30, 2007 02:11 PM in Art, Sculpture ||

The very talented Italian artist Lucio Bubacco makes amazing coloured sculptures with glass. He uses the lampworking technique, which torches the flame and directing the heat source.

His pieces challenge our notion of lampwork as a primarily decorative and whimsical, stressing as they do form and plasticity, rather than detailed elaboration and/or narrative content presented as a mini-installation. Bubacco's recent explorations with two dimensional inclusions in blown, solid off-hand and cast glass, burst forth into three dimensional glory, or are highlighted by cold working through and around the images, as he persists in his quest to create a living force in glass.

His gallery of works is composed by mythological and fantastic creatures, gods, demons, transgressive sculptures and carnival allegories. Some of those are NSFW. (via andreaxmas)

Posted by Bibi on March 22, 2007 05:27 PM in Sculpture ||

The product designer Sam Buxton gave a new life to flat stainless steel cards, transforming them into wonderful tiny sculptures.

By deploying a chemical milling process he had discovered in the electronics industry, Buxton created a flat fine stainless steel card the various parts of which unfolded into a 3-D replica of himself working at his computer. When a manufacturer spotted it in the Design Museum’s 2001 exhibition Design Now – London, the business card was put into mass-production as the first in the series of MIKRO-Man fold-up sculptures.

Explore also Mikroworld, the home of Mikroman. (via MetaFilter)

Posted by Bibi on March 15, 2007 07:02 PM in Design, Sculpture ||

I have some pieces of my old (very old) computers here and I got some ideas of what do with them. Something near of the amazing robots created by Ann P. Smith. Using broken electronics and machines, she creates robot-like animal sculptures. Her sculptures have also been used as illustrations in magazines and brochures, and her clients include Cricket Magazine, Cicada Magazine, and Chevron Global Lubricants. Don't miss the short animations with the horse sculptures in movement!

Related posts: Resistor man, Diskette Handbag, Miles van Yperen, Lockwasher Design and Mark Ho's Zoho Artform No.1.

Posted by Bibi on March 9, 2007 11:14 PM in Animals, Art, Design, Sculpture ||

Via WikiHow I discovered how to make polymer clay cats and the fantastic universe of clay sculpture creatures of Fergus Ray Murray, aka Oolong. Thanks to him, now I'm with an irresistible wish to buy pots clay of clay to to make that clay cat. Maybe make a series of them, and shot my own claymation film. Or a clay dodo!

Many of his clay creations are cats, however, there are lots of other lovely creations: dogs, lizards, beavers, monsters, elephants, dragons, frogs, dinosaurs, turtles, lions, caterpillars, penguins, bats, fishes and other creatures - but no dodos. Murray has a great and remarkable style. Don't wait for the very detailed works of Aardman: his clay creations are simple, almost minimalistic and brilliant.

PS.: it's Friday... that's why there are so many cats in this post. Please, don't blame.

Posted by Bibi on March 9, 2007 07:24 PM in Animals, Art, Cats, Sculpture ||

Artists can create incredible and very coloured sculptures using pencils, crayons and papers, like Jen Stark does. Working with the colours, shapes and depth, she creates wonderful paper sculptures with beautiful effects. The power of effects of colours is also the base of her drawings, but in the place of paper she uses lines to compose the visual effect. ( via Make)

Posted by Bibi on February 27, 2007 02:15 PM in Art, Craft, Sculpture ||

Using metal, driftwood, steel and vintage vacuum tubes the talented Canadian artist Miles van Yperen creates fabulous sculptures of robots, airplanes and vehicles. This "mechanical" universe is also a theme of some of his 3D illustrations. I don't know much more about him by his profile: his interests are metal sculpture and matte painting, he's a fan of Robert Crumb and his favourite cartoon character is Krazy Kat. This all sounds fine to me. (via Pez)

Posted by Bibi on February 9, 2007 03:50 AM in Sculpture ||

The Museum of Fantastic Specimens is is an on-line collection of creatures “curated” by Hajime Emoto. All of the creatures showcased in the museum are sculpted from paper, modelling paste and bamboo. The whole site is in Japanese, with a little confusing navigation, but it worth a visit. (via the nonist)

Posted by Bibi on February 5, 2007 01:22 AM in Craft, Sculpture ||

Taller La Cochera creates wonderful sculptures of whimsical creatures, full of life and colours. Taller La Cochera is an art group established in 2001 by the artists Arturo Coria Altamirano and Maiko Muro. In their works, you can see the mix of distinct characters and cultures under the concept of "familiar arte". Since them they planning exhibition between Mexico and Japan. This is more or less what the profile, in Spanish, says.

The partnership of the Mexican artist Coria Altamirano Arturo and the Japanese Maiko Muro was probably established in Mexico, where she lives since 1997. The Japanese site Dream Ranch has a gallery with more images of their cheerful work. (via IWR)

Posted by Bibi on February 2, 2007 01:57 PM in Art, Sculpture ||

Full Moon Clay Company sells lovely hand crafted ceramic cars, inspired by the wonderful classic designs of Corvette, Porsche, VW and other vintage cars. Those super coloured car sculptures have models for family, with trailer, for just two people, fancy models, hot dog car, for vacation and other with other cheerful designs. They were all created by Scott and Naomi Schoenherr, husband and wife, both graduated of Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. (via smidigt.se)

Posted by Bibi on January 31, 2007 10:42 AM in Art, Sculpture ||