Korean artist Jae Ko (born 1961) works in fiber,
transforming ordinary materials like paper and vinyl cords into extraordinary sculptural objects.
Some are delightfully low - tech,
transforming ordinary materials into awe - inspiring visuals, while others make use of experimental new media, fusing art and technology in interactive works that change in response to the viewer.
Double Vision features works by six international artists — Samantha Bittman (New York), Manor Grunewald (Ghent), Tony Marsh (Long Beach), Rafaël Rozendaal (New York), Joshua Saunders (Los Angeles) and Michael Staniak (Melbourne)-- whose practices encompass special skills that
transform ordinary materials into something extraordinary.
Not exact matches
In fact, he still does — though it has already been
transformed and resurrected and is therefore no longer subject to the
ordinary laws of our physics, which govern only mortal bodies and
material objects.
Finding the spectacular in the everyday, Oliver
transforms seemingly
ordinary material building blocks into images and installations that stretch the confines of human structures and bodies into the greater universe.
These creative reuse projects have included water bottles (photographs below)
transformed into galaxies, and other
ordinary materials reinvented into shimmering beautiful decorations.
The paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and videos focus on
ordinary objects, such as a brown paper lunch bag, a pink eraser or a 2 - ply, white garbage bag, which are
transformed by the artists, who employ unexpected
materials or play with scale.
With great attention to the range of the chosen
materials and a nuanced sensibility for composition, Wurtz has been since the early works
transforming fragments of the
ordinary into sculptures of wit and poetic composure.
In a process of welding the artist's vision to technical necessities, industrial
materials are
transformed from
ordinary «workaday» existence into lyrical multi-dimensional expanses that immerse the viewer in vibrant fields of color.
Drawing on a wide range of
materials and references, these artists apply a keen eye and a steady hand as they
transform house paint, thread, old and newly woven fabric, industrial tape, and other
ordinary materials into poetic abstract forms.
It builds directly on Barilleaux's award - winning exhibition and book New Image Sculpture, which examined how contemporary artists
transform widely available, often non-art
materials into fanciful replications of the
ordinary.
Benbenisty
transforms objects, images, ready - mades, ephemeral
materials and texts from the everyday, the banal, the
ordinary, moving towards the unique, the individual.