
Archive For The “Sculptors” Category

Benedict Romain
Benedict Romain
Sculptor
Location: UK
Benedict Romain creates classical style sculptures. It challenges the contrasting contexts in which we perceive gender and sexual imagery. By referencing Greek myths in relation to sexuality and contemporary psychology. A network of both communicating and opposing concepts is forming as a platform for debate.
Collaboration with Bruno Jamaica representing Transition Collective. They met in 2011 by exhibiting with the collective. They immediately found inspiration in each other’s work. Their contrasting styles work together perfectly to form high impact installations. Using classical ideals to tackle contemporary issues. With an aesthetic result which covers the whole extent of the history of art. Joint exhibitions: Santorini Biennial, Santorini, Greece, 2012 ‘The Nest’ at Vibe Gallery. Bermondsey, London 2012 ‘Art Extravaganza’ at Action and Power Gallery. Stoke Newington, London 2012 Arbeit Gallery, Old Street, London 2012.
Website→ https://benedictromain.wixsite.com/
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Matthew Monahan
Matthew Monahan
Sculptor
Location: Los Angeles (US)
Matthew Monahan uses materials like paper to create decidedly human and vulnerable sculptures. All of the artist’s practice uses a variety of materials. What shines through in each of his works is his penchant for transmitting people in unexpected ways.
Recognized for his mastery of traditional and industrial materials, Monahan’s new works reflect a physical and mental showdown with the history of figuration. Monahan goes beyond the individual icon. Populating his works with unruly masses and subjecting his characters to an insoluble struggle. Rendered mainly in black and white. The viewer is forced to zoom in and out on a pixelated optical field. Where sculpture and painting overlap and merge.
Website→ https://www.instagram.com/matthewmmonahan/
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Martín Lagares
Martín Lagares
Sculptor
Location : Spain
Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Cuenca. Martín Lagares was born in 1976 in the enclave that connects the coast and the Onubense mountain range. In his hometown, La Palma del Condado, he has developed his entire career since graduating in 2000. Apprentice to sculptor Francisco Joaquin Moreno Daza.
With an overwhelming personality, the dexterity of his hands with mud, gives his work the strength of the most primitive art. The spirituality of the most evolved man.
Martín Lagares mainly works with clay. Terracotta. Resin and bronze. Materials of immanence, far from the nobility of marble and its divinizing or transcendent stubbornness. Nothing is accidental. These are the most suitable materials for generating creative tension. And strongly expressive to which his sculpture aspires.
Website→ https://www.martinlagares.es/
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Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Sculptor, Installation
Location : Germany
Ursula von Rydingsvard (American, born 1942 in Deensen, Germany). She studied painting at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. Then she obtained a Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University in 1975. The artist’s large-scale sculptures reveal traces of the human hand. Which suggest the earliest memories of being surrounded by wooden walls. Tools and utensils as a child living in wartime refugee and labor camps in Germany. After her family was forced to leave Poland. Von Rydingsvard creates his work from commercially machined cedar beams that are marked. Shaped by cuts in wood. Stacked, then glued together. These shapes can also be used for casting sculptures. In materials such as urethane resin. Copper and bronze. Von Rydingsvard’s organic and gestural works allude to the landscape. To the body and common utility items such as spoons, shovels and bowls.
Website→ https://ursulavonrydingsvard.net/
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Nik Ramage
Nik Ramage
Sculptor
Location : UK
Nike Ramage makes machines that move, or appear to move. Machines not useful but sculptural. With weaknesses and flaws. Ticks and squeaks. Too complicated and underperforming.
Some ask the viewer to put them in motion. Others have their own life. They are made from a motley collection. Disparate parts, encompassing lost and broken machine parts. As well as household items. They are machines born from ideas but bypassing utility. Machines steeped in the human condition. Absurd and uncertain.
Website→ https://nikramage.com/
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Willy Verginer
Willy Verginer
Sculptor
Location : Brazil
Willy Verginer was born in Bressanone (BZ) in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Ortisei. Where he studied painting. After his studies, he worked in various wood carving workshops in Val Gardena. In the 80s, starting from the tradition of its valley. He tries to distance himself, by autonomous learning. Conventional methods. From 1984 to 1989, he taught at the Professional School of Sculpture in Selva (BZ). In one of his first solo exhibitions, organized by Danilo Eccher at the Galleria Spatia in Bolzano. He showed abstract works, made of wood with a combination of natural materials.
90’s.
The 1990s were characterized by profitable exhibitions and the founding of the artistic group Trisma. Trained by Walter Moroder, Bruno Walpoth and Willy Verginer. Then ten years of research, crises and a less creative period ensued. In 2005, he exhibited at the Galleria Castello in Trento. Verginer radically changes style. He presents figurative sculptures developing an original plastic language. Associated with an acrylic paint with nuances of artificial colors.
Website→ https://www.verginer.com
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Mikael Christian Strøbek
Mikael Christian Strøbek
Sculptor, Installation
Location : Berlin (Germany)
Mikael Christian Strøbek, visual artist based in Berlin. He merges photography. The sculpture. Light and digital art to create themes of perception. Physical movements through its installations.
Strøbek’s minimalist and contemporary works give a perspective on form. Color and composition in different artistic contexts. At first glance, the viewer assumes that the works are physical in nature. But often, the artist creates conceptual 3D renderings of his installations.
“Digital works seek to redefine artistic production in connection with architectural contexts. “
By using several supports in his geometric works. Strøbek creates a framework through which the viewer can freely attribute their own impressions.
Website → https://www.mikaelstrobek.com/
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Stefaan De Croock
Stefaan De Croock (Strook)
Painter, Sculptor
Location : Belgium
Stefaan De Croock (1982) lives and works in Bruges, Belgium. He graduated in fine arts (graphic design) at Sint-Lucas in Ghent. Since 2011, Stefaan has devoted his time entirely to his art and to his “Strook” project. His training and experience as a graphic designer clearly marked his artistic vision. Stefaan first draws some basic lines. Each drawing begins with this rapid, spontaneous, even impulsive action. He leans towards automatic drawing. Within these lines, he creates different dimensions by adding color. Structure and narrative details. The intrigue fights to attract the attention of the spectator. However, the large composition stands firm.
Website : https://strook.eu/
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Villu Jaanisoo
Villu Jaanisoo
Sculptor
Location : Estonia
Villu Jaanisoo (born in 1963 in Tallinn) is an Estonian sculptor and professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. He is known as a sculptor. Versatile user of materials. And interprets traditions of sculpture. He lives and works in Pirkkala and Helsinki.
Gorilla.
Public works of Villu Jaanisoo. Anything is possible, are collected from used car tires. The sitting gorilla is nearly five meters tall. In her work, the artist wants to ask questions about the origin. The responsibility and the future of the man. According to the artist, Gorilla recalls endangered animal species. Whose habitat has declined due to human activity. By choosing the material he uses. It raises the ecological perspective. Jaanisoo hopes that the animal will bring joy to the weeklies. And will counterbalance the research. And the studies of the University.
The sculpture was destroyed by fire on January 10, 2018!
Website : http://www.jaanisoo.com/
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