sculpture

Michael Asher and Willem Besselink

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About a year ago I wrote a post about a Michael Asher installation at the Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art. For the installation Asher reconstructed, as open frameworks, all of the temporary walls that had been constructed for the museum 44 previous exhibitions (picutred above).

I noted at the time that it reminded me of an old idea I had discarded invloving mapping all of the artworks that had been exhibited in an exhbition space. A Dutch artist named Willem Besselink has just seen the post and lef t a comment to say that in 2007 at a gallery called Moire in Utrecht he had done something very similar. His project involved constructing framewoks outlining the space occupied by all of the artworks exhibited in a gallery during the previous year. The video below documents the construction and dismantling of the piece. The different colours relate to the different exhibitions. 

Sculptures Made By Bees

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Hilary Berseth makes sculptures with bees by placing armatures in their hives. I blogged about his work before ages ago but it has just been featured on Makezine where they've linked to this article on nymag.com which features a slideshow of images showing the process.

Someone in the comments section of the nymag article posted this link to the work Aganetha Dick who encourages bees to build honeycombs on figurines and other objects:

Arte Povera

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I've read a few articles about (and looking at images of) Arte Povera recently which has been getting some press due to a rehang of a wing of Tate Modern. Here are a couple of nice sculptures by Guissepe Penone (top) and Michelangelo Pistoletto (bottom). I can't find caption info online.

 

Urban Objects

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Here is a sculpture called Grub by Aaron Kramer. It is made of used coffee stirrers (top) and used bristles from street sweeping brushes (bottom) woven on a steel armature. I was particularly interested in this work because I have been collecting bristles from street sweeping brushes that have come loose and scattered on the street. Aaron gets his bristles from a company who replace the bristles on worn out brushes.

Here is some of his work on the Packer Schopf Gallery website.

Here is his own website.