A 300 year old, carved Tibetan skull from a private collection…
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A double-sided statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta from the Salarjung Museum in Hyderabad, India:
Posts Tagged ‘Sculpture’
Phrenology
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Medical, Sculpture on 23/01/2018| Leave a Comment »
Head space
Posted in Art, Uncategorized, tagged Art, Sculpture on 22/01/2018| Leave a Comment »
Plasti-scene
Posted in Advertising, tagged Advertising, Art, Poster, Sculpture on 15/05/2017| Leave a Comment »
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
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Sculpture on 10/04/2017| Leave a Comment »
Not a day of work in their lives
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Sculpture on 29/03/2017| Leave a Comment »
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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Boom goes the furniture
Posted in Design, tagged Design, Exhibition stand, Sculpture on 28/03/2017| Leave a Comment »
Circles within circles
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Sculpture, Writing on 09/03/2017| Leave a Comment »
The Gates of Hell is a monumental sculptural group work by Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from “The Inferno”, the first section of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Subsequent bronzes have been distributed by the Musée Rodin to a number of locations, including this one at the Kunsthaus gallery in Zürich (I think)…
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Crystal skull
Posted in Art, tagged Anatomy, Art, Sculpture on 07/03/2017| Leave a Comment »
Death becomes me
Posted in Design, tagged Design, Medical, Public Health, Science, Sculpture, Words, Writing on 03/03/2017| Leave a Comment »
As part of a design project for The University of the Arts, Bremen, Joris Wenger has developed his own proposal for Nuclear Semiotics – (how we communicate the dangers of nuclear waste sites to future generations, which I covered in the last post.
I think the laser-etched skull is incredibly striking, and does a good job of conveying ‘death’. Though the trefoil nuclear sign and exclamation marks aren’t self-evidently about death, danger or nuclear radiation, so their meaning would quite easily be lost to time.
Having said that, when a subject is communicating across tens of thousands of years, it’s always going to be a difficult proposal, and easy to pick holes in. Joris’ work is beautifully finished and an interesting approach to a fascinating challenge:
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Janus
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Sculpture on 18/10/2016| Leave a Comment »
Vacuum Packed 