Ron Mueck @ Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain Paris

Fascinating hyper-realistic sculptures by Australian artist Ron Mueck at the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris. A head of hair takes an average of three weeks to implant (each individual strand is placed into the follicles). 

Diet Wiegman

LIGHT SCULPTURES by Diet Wiegman

L'Atelier Brancusi

Went to check out l'Atelier Brancusi at Georges Pompidou last week, thought you might want to take a peek...

Pete Fectau x 4 242 Rubik's Cubes

“I woke up from the dream and it was like I was on fire. I spend three hours that morning writing down the concept and brainstorming. When I stepped back I realized how bat-shit crazy it was but there was something pushing me to make it a reality. Sometimes I don’t think I woke up from that dream. It still seems crazy.” - Pete Fectau, Rubik's aficionado and designer extraordinaire. (4242 Rubik's cubes in total!!!)

Metalmorphosis

Amazing piece by Czech sculptor David Cerny in the Whitehall Technology Park in Charlotte, N.C.

Tomohiro Inaba

Great sculptures by Tomohiro Inaba - check out more on his website.

Holton Rower

Beyond. Holton Rower is an American artist who (clearly) juxtaposes sculpture and paint to create these colorful, psychedelic works of art. I'm happy and somehow sad that it was all captured on video - sometimes it's fun to imagine just how the piece was created. Then again, the video is trip-y and wonderful. Dope!

Randy Cooper

These mesh sculptures caught my eye. Found at the Art Symbol Gallery, across the street from Place des Vosges in Paris' Le Marais. Created by Randy Cooper, the shadow sculptures seem to be a conscious and subconscious play on light and image. Wonderful.





Song of the day: Kanye West - All of the Lights

FIAC 2010 x Tony Cragg

This was one of my absolute favorites at the FIAC this year. Tony Cragg is a genius! An incredibly well pre-planned sculpture made of wood that portrays different profiles when looked at from different angles. I absolutely loved the look and feel of this peice. Intricate and yet so subtle.

Dalton Ghetti

I'm going to be honest with you here; I don't 100% believe this is real. It's just too cool - the amount of work, patience and stability necessary to create these pieces of art baffles me. Brazilian-American Dalton Ghetti uses a sculpting knife, razor blade and/or sewing needle to create these pencil sculptures and the coolest part? He just gives them away to his friends and whatnot. Pro-bono pencil art!

P.S. I discovered an AWESOME pencil-ized blog. Take a peep!

Mia Pearlman

Mia Pearlman created the Inrush sculptures, featured at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York using paper and genius. They're quite beautiful to look at and have a sort of otherworldly air to them. The precision of the cutting on these pieces is striking to say the least!




Song of the day: Unkle Jam - What Am I Fighting For? (La Priest Remix)

Subodh Gupta

I first heard about Subodh Gupta via the amazingness that is TED. He was mentioned in Ravin Agrawal's talk entitled "10 Young Indian Artists to Watch", and spoken quite highly of as he is described the "Alphamale of contemporary Indian art". He "celebrates local and mundane objects globally and on a grander and grander scale by incorporating that into ever more colossal sculptures and installations." His works caught my eye, to say the least. I immediately had to Google him and see the pictures in a larger format than my iTouch's small screen. I quite love what he does and how he creates such a grandiose metaphor out of such seemingly unimportant everyday items. The messages he portrays about the health of his people and of the world are sent out via these glimmering sculptures and paintings that seems to be representative of both hope and despair. Recyclable genious.

Song of the day: The Aston Shuffle - I Wanna See You

T-shelf it up

The T-Shelf. A.k.a. the triangle shelf - a system made of plywood, steel cables and zipties that allows you to play Bob the Builder and create some sweet Moravian star-like structures for your home.

"The concept was to create furniture for modern nomadic culture. It is easy to set up and pack flat for space saving transportation. The first approach was to get rid of screws. This also gets rid of the tools in assembling the furniture. T-Shelf uses cables and zipties to tie every triangle into one piece of furniture/sculpture and functions as displaying books, magazines, plants, pictures, or anything you want to display." - Yes, I am aware of the floetry (read: flowing poetry) of that short description, but please give them a break (they're architectural geniuses, not literary ones). I think this is amazing - DOPE, if you will - a must.

It suits both the organizational psycho and the art aficionado - cleverly ironic.

Song of the day: Yelle - Ce Jeu (The Twelves Remix) - Thank you to Luana for the musical tip :)