Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that’s required to see them the way they were thousands of years ago.
Biografias was created by artist Alicia Martin using 5,000 books. Eventually, we’ll probably be seeing physical books used more for art like this than for reading. Sigh. [Urban Prankster]
We have seen Gerry Judah’s amazing work before, which mix awesome engineering and technology to get almost-impossible pieces, like this 32 metre high, 44 tonne sculpture showing two Audi cars shooting into the sky. Up close it’s mighty impressive:
Some may frown on this crocodile dying for his art, but mounted on that pink motorbike with the stagnant air in his face, I’d argue he’s living more than most of us.
Sculptor Brian Cox has made a hobby out of turning people’s faces into a real-life, stainless steel Rubin vase illusions. Novelty gifts, as a whole, now have a new standard for, well, novelty.
Cityscope is a new sculpture by Marco Hemmerling, designed to deal “with the fragmented perception of urban spaces” or something: To me, it’s better to imagine it as a meteor that just managed to soft-land in a city square. Or, better still than artistic mumbojumbo: perhaps as a particularly odd-looking alien spacecraft. This works even better when you learn its partially-mirrored surfaces disappear at night as it is dynamically multicolor-illuminated from inside. That said, there was a lot of design thought put into this to make it “fit” its space, and the whole thing was CAD-CAM’d into existence. Pretty. [Dezeen] galleryPost('cityscope', 3, '');
