A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti has been sold at auction for £65,001,250, in just eight minutes. The amazing world record breaking sale took place at Sotheby’s auction house in London, United Kingdom.
Archive for the 'Sculpture' Category
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Sam Jinks creates unbelievably life-like and haunting silicon human sculptures.
Kinga Offert from Poland sent in these lovely hand-painted Luchadore figurines. Her original idea was to juxtapose the world of Mexican wrestlers with the gray and sad reality of Polish streets. But as it happens, the project got out of control and the figures, which were originally made as part of the diploma work, started to show up in different, faraway countries.
German 3D collage extraordanaire Sarah Illenberger has sent in some shots of her recent creative work.
There are a number of very interesting updates on the website of super talented sculptor Xavier Veilhan. One such update is a giant version of his work titled Sophie, which was created for the restaurant Le Germain. The work is so large to the extent that it exists on two floors of the building. Very impressive.
BIG-GAME is a design studio founded in 2004 by Grégoire Jeanmonod, Elric Petit and Augustin Scott de Martinville. It is now based in Lausanne (Switzerland) and Brussels (Belgium).
Those of you who follow the Human Resources Twitter, may already be aware that we visited the Glasgow Art Fair yesterday. It was an inspiring day for all of us with many highlights. One such work was a £95,000 Banksy print, which featured along side an array of diverse and wondrous works. I have summarised my personal highlights, which you can find below.
Reuben Margolin is a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, who creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reuben’s artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, and the motorised to the hand-cranked.
There is a great insight in to the life and works of Reuben in an interview by Make, which you can view below.
Andreas Fischer is a Berlin based artist who concerns himself with the visualisation of data. More specifically, he works with scientific information visualisation and generative systems, to create drawings, sculptures (data artefacts) and installations. Absolutely stunning works.
Check out this great paper illustration commissioned by Don’t Panic and created by Johnny Kelly (with photography by Linda Brownlee). It was distributed as an A2 poster inside their free flyer packs.
This work found it’s way to Human Resources through our ever growing Flickr group.