STUFF I LIKE
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I can’t help but wonder whether this tendency to sculpt books is the result of the fact that they’re cheap and plentiful. Wim Botha, “Study for the...
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Book Art (by Brian Dettmer)
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Strange rain by Julien Coquentin
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Kim Dorland. Self Portrait At 38, 2012, oil on jute over panel
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“modern midnight conversation” Acrylic on canvas 40x68cm
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Acrylic on canvas 40x68cm
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Acrylic on canvas 40x68cm
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Acrylic on canvas 40x68cm
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Check out this great piece of art on Saatchi Online. Natural aerodynamic by dario moschetta
BOOK SCULPTING BY ALEXANDER KORZER-ROBINSON
Artist Alexander Korzer-Robinson - “Through my work in the tradition of collage I am pursuing a very personal obsession of creating narrative scenarios in small format. By using antiquarian books, it makes the work simultaneously an exploration and a deconstruction of nostalgia. I make book sculptures / cut books by working through a book, page by page, cutting around some of the illustrations while removing others. In this way, I build my composition using only the images found in the book.”
BOOK ART BY SAMANTHA Y.HUANG
Samantha Y. Huang was born in 1985, in Changhua, Taiwan. She began studying business upon graduation from high school, but decided working in an office was not for her and quit after one semester. She subsequently moved to Vancouver, Canada where she studied English and began to take an interest in the Arts.
“In my art practice, I use mediums that have a strong relationship with people’s creative art productions: books, crayons, coloured pencils, paper, and acrylic paint. This is intended to portray the awareness of mediums as themselves through a sense of touch and lead the audience to reconsider the relationship among mediums, creators, and audience. The art pieces are as accessible for touching as the mediums being experienced initially by the artist.
I believe that the messages of mediums /ideas/concept cannot be received fully by sense of sight alone. Many hidden characteristics can only be unfolded by other human senses. I would like to invite my audience to explore the experience and interact with my artwork by using sense of touch. The experience of art provides more feelings and understandings when it has a multi-sensory approach.” - Samantha Y.Huang
Book Paintings by Mike Stilkey
LeBASSE projects - Los Angeles native Mike Stilkey has always been attracted to painting and drawing not only on vintage paper, record covers and book pages, but on the books themselves. Using a mix of ink, colored pencil, paint and lacquer, Stilkey depicts a melancholic and at times a whimsical cast of characters inhabiting ambiguous spaces and narratives of fantasy and fairy tales. A lingering sense of loss and longing hints at emotional depth and draws the viewer into their introspective thrall with a mixture of capricious poetry, wit, and mystery. His work is reminiscent of Weimar-era German expressionism and his style has been described by some as capturing features of artists ranging from Edward Gorey to Egon Schiele.
Artist Matej Krén “Idiom”
Prague Municipal Library and Gallery on Marianske namesti.
Home is a recent sculptural installation by Colombian artist Miler Lagos. The piece was constructed at MagnanMetz Gallery late last year using carefully stacked books to create a compact dome that is entirely self-supporting.
BANKSY HAS A NEW BOOK: “YOU ARE AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF THREAT”
Set to be released in July 2012 by Carpet Bombing Culture, Banksy has a new 240 page hardcover book set to be released. With a title such as You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat, do you think he himself is getting bored of street art books? Pre-order it here.
Craftswoman Rachel Ashe makes art by altering old books—she cuts, folds, paints, and glues objects onto the pages. You can view more of her work at Flickr.
