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Disco Ball Destroys Dinner in Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s Arresting Sculpture

By Judy Berman on

Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s sculpture of a disco ball wrecking a fussily set table that still bears the remains of a meal could double as a visual representation of our brains circa noon yesterday. But the appeal of Ahead and beyond of everyone’s time, space and rhythm isn’t limited to its evocation of a New Year’s hangover; it’s also a beautiful and disconcerting vision of staid, quotidian life brought to the brink of destruction by debauchery. Click through to see the sculpture, which we discovered via Beautiful/Decay, from various angles, and visit Pereda’s website for more of his thought-provoking work. … Read More

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Unbelievably Detailed Wood Sculptures of Animals

By Alison Nastasi on

To some, the idea of working on an anatomically correct sculpture 10 to 12 hours a day, shaving hundreds of wood chips from a solid hunk of cedar, sounds tedious. For Russian artist, Sergei Bobkov, who we learned about on MSN, it’s a passion. His Siberian cedar chip animal creations take about six months to complete (with no days off), but he has his technique down to a science. After carving the chips, he lets them soak in water for several days, and then carefully whittles them down to the necessary shapes. Every now and then he’ll add willow and beech chips to the sculptures. Each piece contains incredible texture, giving Bobkov’s creatures lifelike feathers and fur. Take a closer look in our gallery. … Read More

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Amazing, Hyperrealistic Doll Children

By Alison Nastasi on

Doll enthusiasts have created a unique industry for themselves, often taking vinyl doll “skeletons” and “reborning” them to look like living, breathing babies. It’s a startling and surreal thing to behold, but the painstaking level of detail is admirable. French artist Laurence Ruet — whose work we first spotted on Design You Trust — also makes “living dolls,” but her creations are perhaps more unique.

All of her dolls are one of a kind works, made without a mold, and sculpted from polymer clay. She also crafts the clothes, shoes, and “pets” that go along with them. Ruet puts a lot of thought into portraying the emotions of the dolls, and each tiny figure’s chubby cheeks, freckles, and missing teeth express their personalities in a beautiful, but uncanny way. See what we mean, below. … Read More

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10 Playful Public Works of Art

By Alison Nastasi on

If you prefer to actively engage with art without a “do not touch” sign plastered on the wall next to it, interactive, public artworks can make you feel like a kid in a candyland. We spotted a playful installation on Colossal that transforms a swing set into a whimsical musical instrument when people take it for a ride. We featured it past the break, along with other playful public works of art that inspire viewers to channel the fun-filled days of their youth. Each installation requires spirited and carefree participation to bring it to life. See what we mean in our gallery of playful public artworks, below. … Read More

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Amazing Shredded Book Installations by Jukhee Kwon

By Emily Temple on

Here at Flavorpill, we’re confirmed fans of book art in all of its forms — particularly the bombastic and unexpected, which is why we’re so in love with these book sculptures by Jukhee Kwon, which we recently spotted over at My Modern Met. The Korean-born, London-based artist creates installations that look like waterfalls (or trees, or spiderwebs) made of language, as the shredded pages pour out from their covers into whatever space they’re in. Forgive us for saying so, but we totally want to go splash around in and lean our heads back under these book sculptures. Click through to see some amazing shots of Kwon’s work, and then head on over to her website for even more. … Read More

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Yunwoo Choi’s Amazing Sculptures Inspired by Multiple Dimensions

By Emily Temple on

“What is real? Where am I living? What do I perceive is the real?” artist Yunwoo Choi asks. “Are invisible things — like my emotions, supernatural phenomena, dreams, God, Tao — real? Do they have some space of their own? Are people really living in the same plane or dimension even though they feel differently about the same situation? These questions are the starting point for my work.” Choi’s enormous, mindboggling sculptures, which we first spotted over at Visual News, are crafted out of magazines and newspapers and suspended in space, inspired by his readings on theoretical physics and multiple dimensions, works by the philosopher Ken Wilber and Taoist and Buddhist texts. “With this idea of overlapping dimensions,” he writes, “I have begun to think that invisible and intangible matter physically exist in those hidden spaces.” We don’t know whether these sculptures represent multiple dimensionality or not, but we do know that they kind of blow our minds. Click through to see some of our favorite pieces from Choi’s collection, and then be sure to head over to his website to check out even more of his work. … Read More

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What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Alison Nastasi on

Today at Flavorpill, we read an excellent account of one GQ reporter’s failed quest to make a man out of Justin Bieber. We watched Mac Lethal take on Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know.” We got ready for a rare solar eclipse that’s happening on Sunday. We listened to a… Read More

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Adorable Tiny Food Sculptures That Fit on the Tip of Your Finger

By Emily Temple on

Israeli artist Shay Aaron, whose work we first spotted over at booooooom, creates impossibly tiny, handmade clay sculptures of delicious looking treats, most of them on a 1:12 scale. In addition to being mouthwateringly realistic, his tiny food is pretty gorgeous — if Aaron has a dollhouse, those dolls are eating in some serious style. If you’re feeling especially covetous, Aaron also makes tiny wearable food art, which you can buy over at his Etsy shop (a chicken soup ring!) but we love these little sculptures best. Click through to see some of the most delectable tiny treats you’ve ever seen, and then be sure to head over to Aaron’s Flickr to see even more of his work. … Read More

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Master Sand Sculptors Celebrate Great Britain in the Tottori Dunes

By Emily Temple on

In the fifth exhibition hosted by the Sand Museum, the first-ever of its kind, located in the Tottori Dunes of Japan, fourteen sand sculptors have created an homage to Great Britain in honor of the 2012 London Olympic Games. The exhibition, which we first heard about over at Design You Trust, will be open to the public from April 14 through January, 2013. The amazingly intricate sand sculptures represent things like Big Ben and Westminster, Shakespeare and Sir Isaac Newton, English pubs, London taxis, and, um, “absolute monarchy under the rule of Queen Elizabeth I.” Click through to see the sculptures in their final stages, and let us know if you’ll be checking out the exhibition in the comments! … Read More

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Alessandro Gallo’s Frighteningly Lifelike Human-Animal Mutant Sculptures

By Judy Berman on

It’s like something out of a nightmare: You step, bleary-eyed, onto the subway for your morning commute and find that everyone else in the car has the head of an animal. A frog in a lavender shirt clutches a plastic shopping bag, a tall, cross-legged snake reads the paper, a flamingo in a tank top stares off into the middle distance. But you’re not dreaming; you’ve just entered the mind of Alessandro Gallo, a Genoa-born, London-based artist who represented Italy in last year’s Venice Biennale. His sculptures of typical city dwellers with animal heads are so realistic as to be uncanny, nailing details like tattoos and folds of fabric to create mutants that look real enough to touch — or, you know run screaming away from. Click through to see some of Gallo’s work, which we discovered via Beautiful/Decay, and visit his website for more. … Read More