poolsandpearls:

Wire sculpture done by Leigh Pennebaker

cavetocanvas:

Hannover Merzbau: View with Blue Window- Kurt Schwitters, c. 1930

This, the first of Schwitters’ Merzbau experiments, was a pioneering hybrid art and architecture installation that he constructed in his parents’ house in suburban Hanover between 1923 and 1936. This continuous creative project was a work without precedent, and one that even his closest friends found difficult to grasp. Schwitters himself struggled to explain what he was doing, for art at this time was what you looked at, not what surrounded you, and our now familiar terms of ‘Environment’ and ‘Installation’ had not yet been invented. 

andrewharlow:

Sliced steel sculptures by Park Chan-girl

russianavantgarde:

It’s very cool. 

kunsanggyatso:

3D reproduction of
Supremus no. 58 by Kazamir Malevich

Foam Core and acrylic

claresophiet:

I have truly fallen in love with the salt sculptures of Motoi Yamamoto. They obviously relate to me on a fairly personal level, having recently built a wall from sugar, and I wish I had seen these sculptures whilst I was working on that project as his use of form and line reminded me of the development of my own work then.

Yamamoto started working in salt after the death of his sister from brain cancer. In Japan, salt is heavily associated with death and funerals, and is also used for purification. Gradually, over time, his use of the material has expanded beyond that, exploring the ways it is necessary for the survival of all creatures. His works are incredibly detailed and fragile - and temporary. After the exhibition is over, the salt is gathered up and poured into bodies of water to return it to the earth - much like the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of returning sand from their elaborate mandalas to bodies of water. It symbolises the impermanence of life and how we will all eventually return to the earth. There is a beautiful contradiction to them - the salt looks so luscious, we long to run our hands through it, but to indulge ourselves so would ruin the beauty of the installation.

Click through on the image for a link to his website.

theabsolution:

Sliced Metal Sculpture by Chan Girl Park

betonbabe:

JOACHIM WOLFF

SCULPTURE IN NÜRNBERG, 1970s

cavetocanvas:

Left Square into Left Corner - Richard Serra, 1981