11 Life-size Sculptures Made From Discarded Children’s Toys | toy sculpture

This colourful sculpture is one of many made by British artist Robert Bradford. And don’t be surprised if bits look familiar – they’re made out of children’s old toys. Robert Bradford started experimenting with toys for his artwork in 2004, after getting inspiration from his own children’s toy boxes.
His dog sculptures are so popular that people have even asked him to create toy versions of their own pets. It can take thousands of tiny toys to create one of the larger sculptures.link

11 Awesome Lego Sculptures

Some artists use paint, others bronze – But for Nathan Sawaya he chooses to build his awe-inspiring art out of toy building blocks. LEGO® bricks to be exact.
With more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York studio, Sawaya’s sculptures take many forms.
Sawaya’s art is currently touring North American museums in a show titled, The Art of the Brick. It’s the only exhibition focusing exclusively on LEGO as an art medium. The creations, constructed from nearly one million pieces, were built from standard bricks beginning as early as 2002. link

Cool Recycling, 17 Impressive Newspaper Sculptures

Who would have known that one can use newspapers to create art? Now this is recycling!
Nick Georgiou creates organic sculptures out of old newspapers, and then drops them off in random locations throughout the city.
“Books and newspapers are becoming artifacts of the 21st century,” he explains.
“My work is not only about the decline of the printed word in today’s society but its rebirth as art”. link

Is that porn? … We Don’t Know Much About Art, But.. Is that porn? II

Jeju Loveland (also known as Love Land) is an outdoor sculpture park which opened in 2004 on Jeju Island in South Korea.
The park is focused on a theme of sex, running sex education films, and featuring 140 sculptures representing humans in various sexual positions. The park’s website describes the location as, “a place where love oriented art and eroticism meet.”
Loveland started way back in 2002, when 20 artists, graduates of Hongik University in Seoul, began creating sculptures in the area. Visitors can take a 10-minute taxi ride to Jeju Loveland straight from Jeju Airport.
Jeju Island was already a popular destination for honeymooners, being the southernmost and therefore the warmest region in Korea. link

16 Impressive Sand Sculptures

The World Sand Sculpture Championship is in the Kolomenskoye Park in Moscow, where participants are trying hard to create eye-catching images related to the history of world cinematograph. On display are the sand figures of Alfred Hitchcock, Sherlock Holmes, Count Dracula and many others. Separately, the audience is welcome to appreciate participants’ professionalism in creating copies of world famous palaces and pyramids made of sand.  link

Awesome Sculptures made from Trash

Why waste money on expensive art supplies? Joe Pogan creates his sculptures of birds and other wildlife using found scrap metal like old watches, sprockets, nuts and bolts. link

13 Awesome Butter Sculptures

Butter sculpture is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Yak butter and dye are used to create temporary symbols for the Tibetan New Year and other religious celebrations.British music legend David Bowie made a reference to Tibetan yak-butter sculpture in his song “Silly Boy Blue” from his 1967 debut album

Amazing Life-sized Sculptures made of Recycled Cardboard

Chris Gilmour  is an English artist specialising in the creation of life-sized sculptures made of recycled cardboard and glue, using both plain packaging cardboard and recycled packaging material. His works replicate in painstaking detail many objects and machines out of our ordinary lives, ranging from objects from daily life, such as bicycles, motorbikes, cars, cafetieres, chairs, etc. to small models of religious architecture, in an ironic “desecration” by the graphics of the packaging, by juxtaposing these religious symbols and the “profane” icons of modern consumer life and culture, such as condoms, toothpaste, etc.

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Coolest Light Sculptures… Ever

Light sculpture is an intermedia and time based artform in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces light, or the reverse, in the sense that light is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural as opposed to temporal form or mass. Most often light sculpture artists were primarily either visual artists or composers, not having started out directly making light sculpture.

Field of light

Field of Light can be seen at the Eden Project in Cornwall from 1st November 2008 – 31st March 2009. Bruce Munro and five assistants worked over three days to install it on the grass roof of the visitor’s centre, between the Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes. It is made of 6,000 acrylic stems, through which fibre optic cables run, each crowned with a clear glass sphere. There are 11 external projectors; the stems themselves hold no electric power at all. The installation covers an area of 60 x 20 meters, using 24, 000 meters of fibre optic cable. It’s best viewed after dark.

Kubik modular light brick nightclub

Where do architecture, sustainability, light and music converge? At Kubik, a very hip, greenly-designed nightclub located in Barcelona.
Kubik was a temporary open-air installation linking architecture, light and music with a contemporary air of reclaimed material usage. A radically different nightclub, the space is open to the sky and besides the sea, the structure built from hundreds of reclaimed, stacked, and illuminated industrial tanks.

PET lights, recyling plastic bottles

Did you know that it takes 200 – 300 years for a plastic water bottle or soda bottle to decompose? Horrible thought. The PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) material that is used to make the bottles can be reground, but that is a costly process.
The most efficient way to recycle plastic bottles is to reuse them, and Austrian design company Walking-Things.com has the perfect design-it-yourself solution! With the PET Light, which Walking-Things claims was the first ever hanging lamp system for plastic bottles, you can make one or a hundred hanging lamps, creating tame or totally wild ones.

Volume at the V&A

. Volume is a sculpture of light and sound, an array of light columns positioned in the centre of the garden. The installation responds to human movement, creating a series of audio-visual experiences.

Constellation – Covent Garden Winter Lights

Launched as the flagship piece of the winter season program at Covent Garden the installation featured 600 custom-designed mirrored LED tubes hanging above the entire Covent Garden market space. The volumetric arrangement of the tubes created a canvas in which three dimensional light formations were made possible. Constellation was also individually controllable using a custom-designed control panel, giving the installation an intimate connection with the public.

Matrix II

Erwin Redl makes art from LED lights. That’s right, LED as in Light Emitting Diode. That’s the stuff in traffic lights, tv remotes and even some fancy shoes. Austrian born Redl plies his LED works on a massive scale such as his “Nocturnal Flow”, which uses the 85-foot brick column to support 10,000 LEDs which adjust the flow of their pattern-waves to the rhythm of the sun.
Erwin Redl’s “Matrix II” is a 36 by 26 foot installation piece composed of a grid-work of floating green LEDs. Hung from long strings, the lights become a patchwork of points as if space itself were punctured and emitting a soft green light at its joints. While this may evoke childhood memories of Disney’s Tron, Redl is in fact deadly serious with his light-emitting art creations.
According to Redl his works are meant to explore the nature of art after the dawn of the digital age. Like all art traditions, sculpture and its spatial subject matter are thrown into disarray by the pseudo-reality of our circuit suffused epoch.

Sitooterie

Derived from the Scottish, a ’sitooterie’ is a small building in which to literally “sit oot”.
The structure is a cube punctured by over 5000 long thin windows that project from all its surfaces and lift it off the ground. The cube, which measures 2.4 x 2.4 metres, is precision-machined from 15mm anodised aluminium and the windows are 18mm square-section aluminium tubes glazed with transparent orange acrylic.
As the long thin windows all point at the exact centre of the cube, it only takes a single light source, located at this central point, to send light through every tube, causing the windows to glow orange. A small number of them also project into the cube to form seating.

Array

‘Array’ is a field of columns set in the courtyard of the Chuya Nakahara Memorial Museum in Southern Japan. The columns create a field of light and sound which gently shifts in response to the viewers’ movements, via a hidden network of ultrasonic sensors. Each column is lit by a pure, shimmering white light. This forest of light light calls you in, and its response to your movement invites you to explore. Inside the grid lives a spirit, in the form of a single pure red light. This spirit is timid but often playful, revealing itself boldly then disappearing.

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