Wood artworks

Doris Salcedo’s impressive chair installation – What you should know

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Who is Doris Salcedo? Doris Salcedo is a Colombian artist, born in 1958 in Bogota. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1980 at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University then traveled to New York for a Master of Fine Arts degree. Later she returned to her hometown of Bogota to teach at the Universidad Nacional …

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Why you should explore Andy Goldsworthy’s Wood line

Environmental Art, Installations / 7 minutes of reading

Who is Andy Goldsworthy? Andy Goldsworthy is a widely known artist famous for creating intricate and elaborate sculptures with his bare hands. He draws his inspirations and motivations to work from a specific location. If he likes the site, he creates art using natural materials he finds around the place, including icicles, stones, mud, flower …

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Jaehyo Lee – 0121-1110=114047, 2014, 700 x 700 x 700 cm, wood feat

Jaehyo Lee (이재효) & his massive organic sculptures – Our top 10

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Jaehyo Lee (b. 1965, Hapchen, South Korea) graduated in 1992 with a BFA from the Hong-Ik University in Seoul. Combining distinct traces of Land Art, Arte Povera and Minimalism Lee´s works cast a questioning eye over the roots of form, its function and its role within the natural world. Work between modern art and …

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Mark Bradford’s giant sculpture Mithra resembles Noah’s ark

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Mark Bradford Asked to describe himself, Mark Bradford uses the words demolisher and builder in the same breadth and it is easy to see why. Using posters created for promoting merchant goods and services, flyers and general advertising materials, he takes pride in transforming anything he can lay his hands on into large-scale art pieces. …

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Rick Owens’ furniture collection – The birth of brutalism

Art & Furniture, Sculptures / 12 minutes of reading

When asked to speak about his art, Rick Owens appreciates designers who make hand beads or ball gowns, but he loves his style more. By using rare materials and working with highly skilled artisans, he can create unique items. With an emphasis on art instead of lifestyle, Owens creates massive monuments with little assembly …

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Takahiro Iwasaki’s intricate miniatures of ancient Japanese temples

Architecture, Sculptures, Temple architecture / 2 minutes of reading

Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki’s sculpture the Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss) is a sophisticated miniature recreation of Phoenix Hall, which is part of Japan’s Byodo-in Temple complex. Embodying many elements of tradition and modernity, the piece imitates the reflection of the traditional mirror pond as a physical object, suspended from the ceiling, performing to the …

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