Sentences with phrase «giant sculptures made»

The surreal natural formations of Turkey's Cappadocia region, where soft volcanic rocks have eroded over the eons into fanciful cones and spires, now have some serious man - made competition for tourist attention: The world's largest contemporary land art park, comprising 10 giant sculptures made out of more than 10,500 tons of stone.Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers picked this part of central Turkey for the latest installment of his five - continent «Rhythms of Life» art project due to its natural beauty and long history of settlement by many civilizations.

Thompson had been a driving force at Creative Time, overseeing projects like Kara Walker's A Subtelty, a giant sculpture made of sugar housed in Brooklyn's old Domino factory, that drew more than 130,000 visitors to the rundown plant over its two - month run.

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Or, how about making some giant ice sculptures to melt?

The wreaths currently hang nearby 15 giant sea life sculptures from the Washed Ashore collection, which are made entirely from plastic marine debris.

I used to live in Boston as a child and every year, my dad would take us outside after the first snow storm and he would make these giant snow sculptures of Snoopy on his doghouse.

The outdoor installations will include a recreation of an historic Op Art facade mural in downtown Cleveland by the late Julian Stanczak, a giant sculptural hand at Toby's plaza in University Circle's Uptown, and sculptures made of dramatically folded sections of chain link fence in Ohio City's Hingetown neighborhood.

They may not be radical departures from his original works but they are a great variety of sculptures made from graceful curves, human heads and metal works that feel like giant creeping insects.

Not only her artwork - which included giant looming spiders made of bronze, delicately, sometimes violently sewn sculptures, and double - headed phalluses - but also her absolute persistence.Not until her 70s did she really receive the kind of recognition that she deserved.

Altmejd's diverse and varied oeuvre includes his familiar platform - like structures punctuated by mirrored reliquaries of crystals, flowers, birds, and werewolf bodies and body parts, an inventive assortment of singular werewolf heads, clear Plexiglas boxes filled with an intricate tracery of gold chains, his spectacular aviary filling the Canadian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, uncanny part - bird part - human sculptures, a sculptural clock representing the temporal process of its making, and most recently colossal giants.

The giant bonsai sculpture is made from the windows of demolished Chinese buildings.

Anderson's work indicatively occupies the low floor, making giants of the viewer; her sculptures (like stage sets viewed from the «gods») combine arcane folk narratives, playful characterizations and linear structures sourced from video and arcade games, combined with reflections of contemporary urban malaise.

In some instances, she blots out the Confederate sculpture, as if attempting to erase the history that underpins it; in others, she makes it a more explicit site for white supremacist fantasies by adding giant burning crosses, racist slogans and a memorial to Dylann Roof (the alleged murderer of nine African - Americans in a South Carolina church in June).

Encountering Zheng Lu's giant sculptures in which he crafts cascades and splashes of water out of chainmail, a question forms itself in your mind: «How did he make those?»

There were large photos of things I had made, including Leisure Centre, and some very silly sculptures: a child - sized coffin with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles relief on it, a giant hurdle called The First Hurdle, and a giant walnut whip that had a little door in it.

The show encompasses work from his famous Passstücke (or «Adaptives», from the 1970s — bizarre shapes and objects made from plaster and metal which invite the audience to pick them up and interact), through his beguiling Das Geraune («Murmuring», 1988), a collection of three giant papier - mâché forms with holes for mouths, to the enormous outdoor sculptures in aluminium and epoxy resin he conceived from 1996.

Just as his fellow pop artist Ed Ruscha painted maple syrup and Claes Oldenburg made a giant burger sculpture, his art is a fast food emporium of sticky sauces and fatty snacks.

Tribe uses constructed steel to make sculptures that have a feeling of totemic obsession and pre-industrial roughness, from tiny amulets formed of bolts and other metal scraps to a giant bent phallus with two heads.

Two giant lightbulb sculptures made of charcoal and chalk, respectively, lie on the dark grey floor, which bears the whirled traces of Rhode's dragging and pulling of their opaque forms.

The work of Zhang Huan, one of China's best - known artists, ranges from paintings to sculptures made of ash to giant metal installations.

If you get that guilty feeling when you throw more plastic waste away, then these disturbing yet beautiful giant sculptures will really hit the message home that our society is overusing these non-biodegradable materials and we need to make a change.

Taking influences from Soviet architecture, industrial objects or works by Michael Dean and Rachel Whiteread, Chilean artist Catalina Andonie crafts giant sculptures that are made from materials relevant to their original inspirations.

Thus Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) for instance, had no compunction about painting his figures upside down; while Christopher Wool (b. 1955) made his name in word art, and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) made sculptures out of giant «apple - cores» and «hamburgers».

The sculpture in question, «Scaffold» (2012) by Los Angeles - based artist Sam Durant, is a giant structure made of steel and wood, placed adjacent in the park to «Spoonbridge and Cherry» (1985 — 88) by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

While the Yorkshire countryside may seem like an incongruous place to encounter KAWS» giant, cartoon - like characters, their existential weariness actually makes them seem right at home brooding among the expansive parkland of Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Northern England.

Karikis, whose work currently features in the Whitstable Bienniale, uses the voice as a sculpture material, while Phillipson houses her video art in giant feet and dogs that she makes herself.

Her 2013 exhibition at Morgan Lehman featured a few traditional paintings, a projected animation, sculpture made of altered chairs, and an installation fabricated from thin aluminum strips, seemingly teased into a giant knot suspended midway down two walls and connecting in midair.

hooted philanthropist Shelby White — and a giant new sculpture made of dirt and resin that Nicholas Logsdail dubbed «the Cloudgate to the ancient world» and that Paula Cooper, passing by from her gallery next door, correctly pegged as the tits of Rhea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus.

David Choi's Jumbo, a giant flowered piranha is a tour de force of epoxy and man - made materials, the classical sculptures carved out of Polystyrene insulation by Morgan Herrin put sensation sculptor Marc Quinn's 2005 exhibition The complete Marbles at Mary Boone to shame, (not that this is overly difficult, but Quinn did receive a baffling number of positive reviews for a very easy show) and Brian Basnett's tiny soft sculptures made from found plastics are whimsical, but not at the expense of being personal and warm.

Most of the seven sculptures she made for the show were obviously outsize editions of all sorts of things, like a giant blue strawberry titled Erdbeere / Strawberry from 2017 that looked like an ottoman proposed by a Memphis group designer, and a bronze, painted, neon green seashell (Muschel [Hellgrün] / Shell [Light Green] from 2015) that loomed more than nine feet tall.

Miroslaw Balka: «The Order of Things» (closes on Saturday) The single rousingly portentous sculpture here involves black liquid continually gushing from suspended, industrial - size hoses into a pair of giant bins made of rusty steel plate.

This piece, made from red - dyed painter's canvas and wittily suspended on a wire hanger by two actual clothespins, is a charming version of his series treating the common household object — which for Oldenburg has both anthropomorphic qualities and an affinity to Brancusi's pillars — that found its grandest expression in a giant public - art sculpture across from Philadelphia's City Hall.

Gabriel Maduena makes a giant, mixed media pizza sculpture, reminiscent of Claes Oldenburg's oversized, soft foodstuffs.

«Spaghetti Machine Monument (we considered making an elevated room that addresses belief and our current existential crisis but then decided what's the point let's just make this giant moving spaghetti sculpture),» 2016, Mixed media mechanized sculpture, Dimensions variable

Influenced by the likes of Louise Bourgeois's giant spider or the massive minimalist sculptures of Richard Serra, the huge installation was designed on a scale that would make it worth taking to the galleries of the world, spreading the information that the Arabic world does, indeed, have a contemporary art scene.

Here, you might also find yourself making wall drawings by dancing with a giant piece of chalk, humming on demand, climbing ladders, hunting down Russians and four - leaf clovers, or sticking sculpture between your legs.

The Public Art Fund let David Shrigley make a giant sculpture in Central Park, and this is what they got.

When Andy Warhol painted a picture of a Campbell's soup can, when Claes Oldenburg made a sculpture of a giant hamburger, when Roy Lichtenstein elevated comic - book blondes to the realm of high art, they were all exploring the ideas set forth in Johns's (and Rauschenberg's) paintings of commonplace subjects.

Ryder Ripps completed an impressive «Hypercurrentliving» project with Red Bull (where he drank Red Bull at their headquarters and came up with groundbreaking ideas on Twitter for a few weeks), Os Gemeos announced their collaboration with Hennessy, Shepard Fairey expressed solidarity with the protests in Turkey through a portrait of Ataturk (that he released for free online), and Florentijn Hofman made headlines with his giant inflatable duck sculpture (that subsequently deflated, of course) in Hong Kong.

They include Franz West, Kelley Walker, Amy Sillman, Lawrence Weiner, Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Harrison, and Mark Handforth, whose giant black clothes - hanger of a sculpture fits the space like a custom - made suit.

It's that time of year again when giant, whimsical sculptures — made entirely out of stacked canned food — will be built overnight by teams of designers competing in a fun (and occasionally harrowing) event that also doubles as one of the world's biggest food drives with a creative — and communal — twist.We're talking about Canstruction, an annual international charity competition that aims to raise hunger awareness during Thanksgiving.

Spend the afternoon at the Plains of Abraham taking in marvellous works of art made from giant blocks of snow for the International Snow Sculpture Competition — a carnival classic.