Chinese artist Wang Ruilin creates powerful and
surreal animal sculptures that carry elements of the world on their backs, such as oceans, cliff faces or whole continents.
Not exact matches
Working with a mixture of cold porcelain and polymer atop a metal wire armature, artist Ellen Jewett (previously) creates wildly intricate
sculptures of
animals covered in a tangle of
surreal embellishments.
Standout pieces at SP - Arte include Vik Muniz's Op Art abstraction from his «Handmade» photographic series at São Paulo's Carbono Galeria, Haegue Yang's wooly beast
sculpture at Mexico City's kurimanzutto, Saint Clair Cemin's
surreal ballerina cast in copper at Porto Alegre's Bolsa de Arte, the Campana Brothers» stool made with toy stuffed
animals at São Paulo's Firma Casa, Wolgang Tillmans» photographic still - life of a big peach with other fresh fruits, and Lynda Benglis» biomorphic gold - leafed
sculpture at Cheim & Read.
For her first solo show in New York, Kristalova presents
surreal sculptures made in glazed porcelain, stoneware and patinated bronze that portray the awkwardness of youth, which the artist envisions as dreamlike amalgams of human form with elements taken from
animals, insects and trees.
Rather, the technicolor paintings and
surreal sculptures that make up the show speak to the ways
animals are part of the contemporary imagination through fantasy and allegory.