HappenArt

Anders Krisár

Anders Krisár
Sculptor
Location: Stockholm (Sweden)

The subject of numerous museum shows, Anders Krisár’s work, often focuses on the human body. Krisár’s sculptures often features or makes reference to the human form, exhibiting a preoccupation with formal rigor and abstraction. Using this exacting approach, he employs precision of form to create intensely personal, psychological landscapes.

Objects of simultaneous horror and beauty.

Krisár’s sculptures – immaculately produced, and often bear a deliberate blemish that is itself impeccably rendered. Are discomfiting, objects of simultaneous horror and beauty. The Birth of Us (Boy) features a child’s torso, marred by the indentation of two adult hand prints; in M the life size figure of a boy is split in two and then rejoined, so that a single figure becomes two halves, severed twins clasping hands. The violence that underpins both these sculptures is a recurring theme and is rendered with care and deliberation, so that it appears both aesthetic and inevitable. The sculptures are uncanny because of the meticulousness with which they are executed; according to Krisár, “I’m a perfectionist because I have to be, it’s not really a choice. And it’s not a striving for satisfaction, it’s rather to avoid pain.”

Website→  https://anderskrisar.com/

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Samuel Salcedo

Samuel Salcedo
Sculptor
Location: Barcelone (Spain)

In Samuel Salcedo art irony mixes with the great sympathy to the humans. His realistically made sculptures show ridiculous, funny and some times touching heroes often show nuked. Despite of the small scale, Samuel’s works truly and deeply show all the complex of the human loneliness and confusion.

Irreal heads.

Another vector of Samuel’s art is giant irreal heads with the distorted features that might show offense. In the age of social media, when each of us could create his own fake image, the artist uncovers shortcomings and weaknesses of an ordinary people showing them in an unusual way. Samuel explains: “I like to play with the image of the mask, to show the look that hide something or on the other hand show several emotions at the same time… My art is a reflection of ourselves, how we see each other and ourselves”.

Website→  https://www.samuelsalcedo.com/

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Ashley Bickerton

Ashley Bickerton
Sculptor, visual artist
Location: Bali (Indonesia)

Ashley Bickteron is a Barbados-born American artist known for her baroque multimedia approach to exploring contemporary society. Having moved to four continents while growing up and emigrated permanently from America to his current residence in Kuta, Bali, Bickerton’s pilgrim way of life has been a central influence on his compositions. Freshly graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1982, Bickerton began his career in New York where he was part of the famous Neo-Geo Group in the 1980s. During his stay in America, his compositions included industrial materials, found objects and screen-printed images such as company logos titled “Anthropospheres”, “Commercial Pieces” or even “Self-Portraits”.

Website→  https://www.ashleybickerton.net/

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Barbara Licha

Barbara Licha

Sculptor

Location: Australia

Born in Poland in 1957 and arrived in Australia in 1982. Studied painting, graphic design and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland 1979-81. BA City Art Institute Sydney, 1985-88. then painting – Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts – at the City Art Institute, Sydney 1989.

Symbols of emotions.

Barbara Licha has always been interested in the complexity of the human condition and the variety of human behaviors. She explores the parallels between ordinary people and the people who reside in her imagination, who in her mind appear more like symbols of emotions. It is important for Barbara to seek the universality of the human condition. The figures which are sculpted more or less represent someone. But at the same time they intersect and transform into symbols that represent us all. Licha expresses the inside of people: their wishes, their dreams and their desires.

Website→  https://lichabarbara.wordpress.com/

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Bogdan Rata

Bogdan Rata
Sculptor
Location: Timisoara (Romania)

Born January 22, 1984, Baia Mare, Bogdan Rata works in Timisoara, Romania. He teaches at the West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Arts and Design, Department of Sculpture.

Posthumanism.

His new hybrid realism finds new genetic forms of human anatomy in search of a new posthumanism. Rata multiplies human parts (fingers, ears, etc.) and combines them into new life forms. Newborn babies seem to be the result of strange experiments with the human body in an aesthetic laboratory. Rata’s works forge a contextual shift in anatomical detail through his obsessive multiplication. The materials used, and the resulting industrial aspect, question the attack on individual personality in a climate of standardization of the commercial brand.

Unsuccessful blessing.

The concept of “hand-foot” and the symbol of “unfruitful blessing” reinforce the idea behind the work. Propelling it delicately into the realm of the grotesque. The torso also evokes a twist of reality, the socially provocative themes of sexual identity and the hermaphrodite. He uses new materials such as polystyrene, industrial paint, plaster, synthetic resin.

Website: https://bogdanrata.com

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Lawrence Argent

Lawrence Argent
Sculptor
Location: US

Lawrence Argent’s art encompasses a breadth of form, material, and site that push the viewer to confront their assumptions about environments and the art that exists within them. These interventions envelope a path of consciousness through which the physical promotes the non-physical. The sublime emerges as a vehicle traversing a slippery foundation in the gap between stimulus and response.

Website→  www.lawrenceargent.com

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Javier Marín

Javier Marín

Sculptor

Location: Mexico

Mexican artist, born in Uruapan Michoacán (1962), with an active career that exceeds thirty years. Javier Marín has exhibited individually over ninety times and has participated in over two hundred group exhibitions in Mexico. United States and Canada. Also, in several Central American countries. South America. From Asia and Europe.

Construction and deconstruction.

Javier Marín’s work revolves around the integral human being. Using the analysis of the creative process from the construction and deconstruction of three-dimensional shapes. Take sculpture and now include drawing and photography as central disciplines.

His work is part of important public and private collections in Mexico and abroad, in particular.

Website→  https://javiermarin.com.mx/

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Grzegorz Gwiazda

Grzegorz Gwiazda
Sculptor
Location: Barcelona (Spain)

Grzegorz Gwiazda was born in 1984, he studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Poznań and Warsaw. Also, as a researcher at the Accademia di Belle Arte di Brera in Milan. In 2009 he graduated summa cum laude from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since 2010 he has been conducting courses at the University of M. Grzegorzewska in Warsaw. In 2014 he defended his doctoral thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and in 2019 he obtained his higher doctorate.

Fine Arts of Barcelona.

Since 2015 he has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona.
He received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for 2008/9 and a scholarship funded by Inicjatywa ENTRY. In 2010 and 2015, his works won awards in the international figurative art competition organized by the Fundació de les Arts et els Artistes. In 2018 he received the Arteon art magazine award.
His works appear in numerous collections, including the permanent collection of the Museu Europeu d’Art Modern in Barcelona.

Website→  http://grzegorzgwiazda.blogspot.com/

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Isaac Cordal

Isaac Cordal
Sculptor, Street art
Location: Brussels (Belgium)

The Spanish visual artist Isaac Cordal has been leading his urban art project Cement Eclipses for several years in many cities around the world. Five-inch cement figurines (mostly middle-aged businessmen, laptops in hand) are scattered around to intrigue passers-by. On ledges or on the street wall. In a corner of a bus stop or in the hollow of the sidewalks. In the sea or in the puddle of a vacant lot. Denial of climate change and pollution. Questioning our degraded relationship to nature or to others. Social isolation. Alienation at work. Devaluation of the human whether they are refugees, homeless or chain workers… It seems that by miniaturizing the problems in the form of anonymous characters. Then, by placing them in the public space, we paradoxically draw more attention to phenomena that people can no longer grasp at real size…

Website→  cementeclipses.com

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Michal Trpák

Michal Trpák

Sculptor
Location: Czechia

Michal Trpák was born in 1982 in České Budějovice. He studied stone carving at St. Agnes Secondary School of Applied Arts in Český Krumlov. He then graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in the sculpture workshop with prof. and. soc. Jiří Beránek (2007) and doctoral studies under the supervision of prof. and. evil. Boris Jirků at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bánská Bystrica (2012). During his studies, he completed a one-year internship at the Taideninstitut in Lahti, Finland. Then at the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, Canada. In 2000, he participated in an international student meeting on cultural heritage in South Korea organized by UNESCO.

Materials.

Trpák created dozens of sculptures from various materials, which are exhibited in the Czech Republic and abroad. The sculptures they create often work with contemporary society themes as well as the specific space in which they are installed.

In addition to sculpture, he also specializes in architecture and organizes and organizes various sculptural presentations. Since 2007 he has been organizing the Art in the City exhibition in České Budějovice. In 2015 he was at the birth of the Sculpture line sculpture festival in Prague.

Website→  https://www.michaltrpak.com/

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