Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto creates incredibly intricate mazes made entirely out of salt! Currently showing at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Kanagawa, Japan is one of his newest works entitled “Forest of Beyond.” The story about why Yamamoto started down this path is a sad and tragic one.
Superheroes are always fighting crime and saving innocent victims but, other than acclaim, what do they get out of it?
After we saw the incredible photos of the half graffiti hotel room at the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille,...
Chilliwack, British Columbia-based Kevin Stone specializes in creating gargantuan, one-of-a-kind stainless steel sculptures. His towering bald eagle, called “Power and Authority,” stands an astounding 20 ft high and has a massive 31 ft wingspan. He also completed an 85 feet long mirror polished stainless steel sculpture, the “Imperial Water Dragon.” For almost two years, working seven days a week, he designed and created this 6,000-pound, 12-feet-high, 14-feet-wide and 35-feet-long dragon with two massive coils.
Come to the Guggenheim from now till May 13, 2012 to see a “Choices,” an amazing retrospective of the late...
You may remember Luke Radl's reworking of Norman Rockwell's The Runaway, from last month, but have you seen these other...
Athens, Greece-based designer Charis Tsevis just put out a new set called Chariots of Color 2012 that's inspired by the upcoming London Olympics. I love his choice of colors and how the type is placed so that it gives the illusion that there's motion in each piece. Over the years, we've featured Charis' fantastic work many times here on My Modern Met (see here and here).
John Powers creates geometric installations and sculptures that use simple blocks to form interesting patterns with depth and form.
Artist Simon Beck must really love the cold weather!
Are those heads popping out of vinyl records? In one word, yes. Italians Angelo Bramanti and Giuseppe Siracusa of L017 take waste materials or recycled objects and create art out of them. They find the “charm” in things that have been “abandoned, thrown away, discarded, forgotten or intentionally removed.” This stop-you-in-your-track piece is made up of five overlapping vinyl records that have each been shaped on one side to create distinct heads. Fantastic!
Peter Gentenaar isn't any ordinary paper artist. He creates extraordinarily beautiful paper sculptures that have an ethereal quality to them.
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