Phrenology

A 300 year old, carved Tibetan skull from a private collection…

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Head space

Australian hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck‘s contribution to The National Gallery of Victoria Triennial is an installation of 100 individual human skulls piled up throughout the gallery:

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Castles under seige

ISLAND by Ian Strange, is an interesting photographic project featuring houses tagged with enormous, desperate slogans.

But it wouldn’t be (the sparsely updated, sorry) VaccuumPacked if something interesting wasn’t immediately undermined by artist’s statement wankery. Presented without (any further) comment…

ISLAND reflects on the home through the metaphor of the desert island, a place of personal sovereignty but simultaneously entrapment. ISLAND interplays the monumental with the intimate and intangible. Exploring the icon of the home as a deeply vulnerable object and personal vessel for memory, identity and aspiration.

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Into the blu

Painted throughout Italy, Blu‘s multi-story, cultural-critique murals pack in so much gorgeous detail:

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Splish splash

I love the washed-out watercolour vibe of Dan Gluibizzi‘s work:

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Tainted love

Stephen King’s Stranger Love Songs is a project by Brazilian artist Butcher Billy (great name), creating 80s-era, Stephen King-style, paperback covers from classic love songs.

They’ve done a great job of capturing that schlockly, video-nasty style:

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Plasti-scene

Love the Play Doh sculpture in these ads by DDB Paris. The writing’s a bit long-winded (and weirdly topical) though:

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Game, set, stitch

Tennis racquet embroidery by Danielle Clough:

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Not a day of work in their lives

I’ve always been fascinated by the ability of sculptors to shape delicate, human textures from hard stone (here and here). Dan Stockholm‘s By Hand pulls soft, fleshy hands from the hardness (that sounded more graphic than intended)..

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Guts for garters

Anatomical graffiti by Australian artist Nychos (previously):

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