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Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley
Sculptor
Location: London (UK)

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.

Exhibit.

Gormley’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally.

Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999, the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007, the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2013. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) and was made a knight in the New Year’s Honours list in 2014. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an Honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge. Also,  Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003.

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

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Thomas Lerooy

Thomas Lerooy
Sculptor
Location: Brussels (Belgium)

Thomas Lerooy is a Belgian artist, who was born in Roeselare in 1981. He now works in Brussels. In his workplace, a 1960s garage that was converted into a studio by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen in 2015, and which features plenty of concrete, glass and aluminium, Lerooy makes drawings, bronze sculptures and recently also paintings.

Lerooy’s work.

Transience, the fleetingness of life and the sense(lessness) of our existence are recurring themes in Lerooy’s work. He draws inspiration from classical sculpture and seventeenth-century vanitas paintings, but also from book illustrations, anatomical drawings and grotesque prints. Through a game of creation and destruction, he manipulates classical art and places himself squarely in the Belgian artistic tradition. The humour, the use of the skeleton as a symbol for transience and the nods to Surrealism and trompe l’oeil are all reminiscent of artists such as Félicien Rops, James Ensor and René Magritte.

Sculpture and painting.

Thomas Lerooy flirts. With classical sculpture and painting as well as Surrealism. He provokes, plays and challenges. He seduces and deceives. He unites drama and humour, reconciles the theatrical with the intimate, but also strays into the field of tension between transience and timelessness, between old and new, life and death. Duality and tension are inherent in his work.

Living creatures.

New in his oeuvre are the paintings, which Lerooy sees as living creatures. They need time to mature both in terms of visual language and content. You don’t need to understand them, but rather to feel them by surrendering to the softness of his brushwork. Together with his sculptures and drawings, his paintings form a complex oeuvre that simultaneously touches and troubles, shocks and takes root.

Website→  https://thomaslerooy.com/

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Danh Vō

Danh Vō
Sculptor, Visual artist
Location: Mexico

Danh Vō is a contemporary artist living and working in Mexico City, Mexico, and Berlin, Germany. Born in 1975 in Vietnam and raised in Denmark, Vō is a performance art inspired conceptual artist.

His biography.

The works by Vō emerge from his biography, his own life and path, personal relationships and encounters. His works are objects as the final form of his project, images that have accrued shifting layers of meaning and touching specific events or universal icons.

Vietnam War.

Using his own life as a guideline, the artist explores historical, socio-political themes, in particular topics related to the Vietnam War. Doing so, Vō uses photographs, documents and found objects with an emotional or historical significance, postmodern appropriation of works by other artists often in an eclectic manner. Questioning issues concerning identity, authorial status, ownership and the function or role of personal relationships. The artist explores fragmentation, the discrepancy of reality, fiction and memory.

Website→  https://www.wikiart.org/en/danh-vo

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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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