Category Archives: Sculpture

Superdome

A group exhibition in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo, shows this work by Daniel Firman called ‘Wursa, 18,000 kilometers from Earth’.

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Firmin’s calculations establish that an elephant could balance on the tip of its trunk at 18,00 kilometers from the Earth, though it’s motivations for doing so remain enigmatic to [...]

“Speed” by Joseph.E.Renier, 1939

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This extraordinary image was left over from a recent post about Andre Duranceau
I show it here A) Because I think it’s an astonishingly confident sculpture for its young designer, and B) Because it’s such a robust expression of optimism, reflecting the mood of the 1939 World’s Fair after the [...]

Airborne Paper Castles

Ruminating about the utter madness of making animated films the other day, a vision featuring a meeting of two people in a screening room flitted through my mind, and in this fantasy, person A showed person B a feature length live action film, and, after the credits had finished sliding up the screen, turned to [...]

Lei Xue - Porcelain Rubbish

Back in June last year I posted a piece about Ma Jun, a ceramicist working with models of modern day consumer goods executed in porcelain and decorated with chinoiserie motifs. (Here’s a small pic to remind you, and save you the trouble of leaving this page and coming back here to read the rest [...]

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