Willy Verginer crafts hyperrealistic chiseled wood sculptures. Willy Verginer was born in Bressanone (BZ) in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Ortisei, where he studied Painting. After graduation, he worked in various wood sculpture studios in Val Gardena. In the 1980s, starting from the tradition of his valley, he tried to distance himself, by…
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Contemporary Sculpture by Anish Kapoor
Contemporary Sculpture by Anish Kapoor. Anish Kapoor is a contemporary artist residing and working in London. Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Perhaps most famous for public sculptures that are both adventures in form and feats of engineering, Kapoor manoeuvres between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Anish…
Seoul-based artist Yunchul Kim and his glimmering kinetic sculptures
Seoul-based artist Yunchul Kim and his glimmering kinetic sculptures. Yunchul Kim is a transdisciplinary artist and electronic music composer who works in installations, drawings, sound, texts and other media. Dynamically integrating science, technology, music, philosophy and poetry into his practice, Kim unravels a universe of material entanglements, and his transmaterial work has been recognized with the…
Japanese artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV produces Amazing Recycled Bamboo Installations
Japanese artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV produces Amazing Recycled Bamboo Installations. The Sakai-based artist who created this installation, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, comes from a long line of bamboo craftsmen. Previously known as Tanabe Shōchiku, he took up the family name earlier this year. He earned a degree in sculpture from the Tokyo University of the Arts and…
Anton Smit forms his own language through sculpture
Anton Smit forms his own language through sculpture. Anton Smit spends and works the first three months of the year in his Cape studios in Strand and for the rest of the year in his studios at Bronkhorstspruit Dam, where he oversees a dedicated work force of 16 people. “ We are like family.” Anton Smit…
Isobelle Ouzman create a mix of illustrated and carved sculptures, called Altered Books
Isobelle Ouzman create a mix of illustrated and carved sculptures, called Altered Books. Isobelle Ouzman use book pages as layers to a deeper, dream-like visual scene, developed gradually with a combination of glue, blades, watercolour paints, colour pencils, and ink. My Altered Book pieces often feature plants, animals, and a play between day and night….
Kim Simonsson creates Mossy Figures Ceramic Sculptures
Kim Simonsson creates Mossy Figures Ceramic Sculptures. Simonsson renews the traditions of ceramic art by combining the idiom of classic marble sculpting with computer games and other elements of popular culture. He employs a special electrostatic technique of transferring nylon fiber to the surface of his sculptures, giving them a soft, furry appearance. The sculptor’s…
Christian Verginer carves figurative sculptures that meld the play and wonder of adolescence with the vitality of the natural world
Christian Verginer carves figurative sculptures that meld the play and wonder of adolescence with the vitality of the natural world. Christian Verginer was born in 1982 in Bressanone, Italy. His expressionist sculptures are considered to be some the most unique on the scene today. His formal training began with attending the sculpture department of the…