PARK SOO YOUNG | bronze wire, fiber glass, lifecasting | 68 X 68 X 146 cm | 2008

Thomas Houseago: What Went Down

Thomas Houseago has come to public prominence in recent years with his monumental, figurative sculptures that are charged with a remarkable energy and vitality. 

 Houseago works primarily with media that demonstrates a sensibility towards classical sculptural materials and processes; primitive, totemic sculptures are hewn from giant timbers, Hessian is slathered in plaster and crudely wrapped around steel armatures, and largescale, free-standing works are ambitiously cast in bronze. Houseago’s sculptures possess a daring urgency, a tactility and brute physicality that expose the process of their own making. The visible ‘touch’ and ‘imprint’ of the artist are nakedly evident: a fist of plaster is gauged out to create an eye socket, a deft chiselling of redwood to suggest a shoulder blade. 

Houseago’s work is unapologetic and relentless in its evocation of classical and modernist sculptural works. His somewhat crude and direct working belies a sophistication that is rich in a layering of cultural, mythological and art historical references. In a time of fast-paced
technological change, Houseago’s art takes on the psychological role of an awkward, unresolved reminder of the past – cumbersome and insistent in its emotional presence. 

snowce:

Claudiu Cândea

(via 7knotwind)

Sol Kjøk

www.solkjok.com

Sol Kjøk

www.solkjok.com

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Yeong-Deok Seo.

Korean artist Yeong-Deok Seo creates imposing figurative sculptures using tightly knit configurations of welded bicycle chains and industrial steel chains. While impressive in their intricacy and the apparent skill required to create them, the artwork’s titles such as Infection – Anguish, Infection – Ego, and Addict, suggest the rippled surface created by the materials is not an arbitrary decision. These are figures of individuals in dispair, pockmarked with disease, the chains acting as a metaphor for the human condition. See much more of Seo’s work spanning the past several years here. (By Christopher)

http://blog.naver.com/duck8383

FOLKERT DE JONG
Golden Smile - Eva, 2007
BASF Styrodur, Austrotherm, polyurethane foam, Liquid plastic, artificial gemstones
65 3/8 x 53 1/2 x 65 inches

YOU KNOW, 1995

BODY I, 2009

Many thanks to Julienfoulatier for this link.

In the sun

Sir Ivor Henry Thomas Hele, CBE (13 June 1912 - 2 December 1993)

(via medisina)

http://doodlefukshit.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-12-29T12%3A38%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=35

acertainshadeofyellow:

charcoal sketch (by koendecock)

2headedsnake:

nohaycomolodeuno.blogspot.com

francine van hove