Flexible Paper Sculptures of Li Hongbo

The creativity has no limits and boundaries and it can stretches and be flexible just like paper sculptures of Beijing artist Li Hongbo "A book editor and designer, the artist became fascinated by traditional Chinese toys and festive decorations known as paper gourds made from glued layers of thin paper which can be stored flat but then opened to reveal a flower or other shape. He applied the same honeycomb-like paper structure to much larger human forms resulting in these highly flexible sculptures." says Colossal

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Installations of Eyel Gever

Tel-Aviv’s artist Eyal Gever presents Sublime Moments exhibit where one may see the impact of pressure, gravity, chemical mixing, squeezing, explosions, drying, freezing, and so on.

Matt Shlian's Paper Sculptures

"Matt Shlian considers himself a “paper engineer,” and in addition to studying the material’s attributes on a nano-level, crafts and creates these beautiful works experimenting with light, balance and form." via Trendland

Anamorphic sculptures Jonty Hurwitz

You may remember Dali worked with anamorphic images that were recreated on a glossy surface of a metal tube (also the huge one sculpture in Figueres city featuring Dali's face). As for Salvador Dali he did pictures and all mathematics by himself, as for modern figurative sculptor Jonty Hurwitz, computing is a first thing before he begins to create complex anamorphic sculptures. That's clear the process cannot rely only on hands and an eye. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W3SIEt37FjI

For the anamorphic pieces its an algorithmic thing, distorting the original sculptures in 3D space using 2πr or πr3 (cubed). Much of it is mathematical, relying on processing power. There is also a lot of hand manipulation to make it all work properly too as spacial transformation have a subtle sweet spot which can only be found by eye. Generally I will 3D scan my subject in a lab and then work the model using Mathematica or a range of 3D software tools. I think the π factor is really important in these pieces. We all know about this irrational number but the anamorphic pieces really are a distortion of a “normal” sculpture onto an imaginary sphere with its centre at the heart of the cylinder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3hAojDjNhA&feature=player_embedded&list=UUsJTahxI36FEd4dKjOdZdpQ

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Rein Vollenga's Sculptural Wearables

Dutch-born sculptor Rein Vollenga's work has been displayed in worldwide galleries and touted by the likes of Lady Gaga. Vollenga regularly transgresses the traditional boundaries of sculpture by producing tangible and wearable pieces for a whole host of fashion brands - Mugler, New Power Studio and Cassette Playa - as well as magazines, including Dazed & Confused.

Cardboard sculpture by Bartek Elsner

Once we posted the cardboard sculpture made for MINI advertising "Ghettoblaster" made by Bartek Elsner. Today we want to focus on his personal portfolio full of awesome cardboard sculptures he did for different cases.

Sculpture by Daniel Arsham

New York based artist Daniel Arsham challenges our spatial perspective by creating works that manipulate surfaces and materials. His art combines elements of architecture, installation, and design, and his built environments study the relationship between natural versus manufactured objects.

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Shadow sculpture by Rook Floro

"My sculpture/performance piece is inspired by Carl Jung’s psychological theory about the shadow. It concerns with the repressed ideas, weakness, and desires of oneself that the conscious mind refuses to acknowledge.It represents my ‘shadow’ which involves my hidden desires to be different and become perfect in my own right. We always feel the pressure to be perfect by everything around us such as themedia, social network, advertisement, friends, and family." Check full gallery of Bangkok based sculptor Rook Floro here http://www.behance.net/rookie

Melting Disco Balls by Rotganzen

"These melting disco balls are the work of German collective Rotganzen. The installation, titled Quelle Fête, features scattered disco balls in various stages of melting. No longer operable or spinning, they lie lazily on the floor." Regarding the concept, Rotganzen says:“Our conscious choice of the material and form contains a contrast to the message. It’s a reminder of the momentousness of glamour and swiftly passing glory. What once may have been a perfect shape takes on a new character and meaning. However, rather than a cynical take on reality, our intention is to offer a playful approach to observing our object of depiction.”

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Roger Reutimann sculpture

Roger Reutimann is a Swiss artist and sculptor living and working in Colorado. His figurative art is simply amazing

The Porcelain Sculptures of Kate McDowell

"In her delicate crafted porcelain sculptures conceptual artist Kate McDowell expresses her interpretation of the clash between the natural world and the modern-day environmental impact of industrialized society. The resulting works can be equal parts amusing and disturbing as the anatomical forms of humans and animals become inexplicably intertwined in her delicate porcelain forms." via Colossal

Pencil sculpture by Lionel Bawden

Sculptures made with coloured Staedtler pencils by Lionel Bawden

Metalmorphosis Fontain by David Černý

World renowned contemporary sculptor David Černý recently created a huge anamorphic kinetic fountain in North Carolina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5xjfYsulSxE

Peter Trevelyan

Peter Trevelyan’s incredible geometric sculptures are a thing of wonder being created out of fragile pencil lead. Fused together carefully with glue these delicate sculptures come in a range of sizes that will boggle the mind. That's a lot of patience and talent!

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Omote 3D Mini-Me

The Omote 3D Shashin Kan (“Shashin Kan” is translated “photo booth”) that produces miniature human replicas. A brainchild of Tokyo-New York creative company PARTY, Omote 3D is currently running a pop-up store in the hip Tokyo neighborhood of Harajuku, at the Eyre of Gyre shopping mall. Please read the full interview with Omote 3D founder Masashi Kawamura on Wallpaper*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POx6eWOr97I&feature=share

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Stephen Shaheen

Stephen Shaheen is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores the porous borders between art, design and architecture. His work spans both manual and digital processes, and employs materials as diverse as repurposed found objects, marble, and recycled denim fiber.

Khalil Chishtee sculpture

Pakistani artist Khalil Chishtee uses grocery plastic bags and trash bags, to create these life-sized figural sculptures.

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Marc Quinn

World renowned contemporary artist and mainly figurative sculptor Marc Quinn has a plenty of projects on personal website worth to see. One of his latest work - a real-sized Zombie Boy made a good media appearance. But his truly climax of the year 2012 happened at London 2012 Paralympics revealing a huge sculpture of "Alison Lapper Pregnant" previously sat on Plynth on Trafalgar Square.

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Ted Lawson sculpture

Using figurative representation and geometric abstraction, Ted Lawson creates a narrative progression of forms that reveals something conceptually greater than the sum of their parts. His working process in an exploration into the human existential experience through imagined models of the universe as pure physical form.

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Morgan Herrin' sculpture

Hand-carved wood sculptures by Morgan Herrin.