Angela Glajcar’s Astonishing Sculptures Made from White Paper

We might not think much of sheets of paper, something we see every day, strung together in our notebooks and journals. German sculptor Angela Glajcar sees something light and delicate, with the power to take us to another place. She has exhibited her paper-produced works and suspended sculptures all over the world, with her latest installation on view at Heitsch Gallery in Munich, Germany. Titled “Weiss Ist Das Neue Schwarz” (“White is the new black”), her new work plays with opposites- solid blocks of light paper that float freely in the gallery space. Glajcar often tears the paper to make an association with the jagged ridges and deep caves on glaciers or rock formations. Many pieces feature a vortex-like opening in the torn paper, like watercolor paper, revealing the layers of hundreds of sheets underneath. When lit, the paper’s torn edges create geometrical tunnels that seem to spiral endlessly into a deep white nothing.

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Angela Glajcar, Paper art, sculpture

aerial sculpture, installation, Janet Echelman, sculpture

May 23, 2015

Boston based artist Janet Echelmen (previously featured here) has created one of her most dramatic works yet, but you won't find it in any gallery. Her latest aerial sculpture hangs half an acre above Boston's Rose Kennedy Fitzgerald Greenway. Titled "As If It Were Already Here", the piece weighs a whopping 2,000 lbs, made of 542,000 knots which Echelmen wove together into a colorful, graceful mesh. Take a look at more photos after the jump!

Dennis Mcnett aka Wolfbat’s Wood Carvings Mix Punk and Norse Imagery

Dennis Mcnett, sculpture, Wolfbat

January 12, 2016

Brooklyn, NY based artist Dennis Mcnett's spirit animal is the wolfbat, a moniker that he has adopted for his dynamic wood carvings and installations featuring creatures, full scale temples and vehicles like viking ships inspired by Norse mythology. His wolfbat character has origins in Fenrir, a monstrous wolf that has been depicted in art and literature throughout history, sometimes as a metaphor for Satan or Goliath, other times as a symbol for rebellion against authority.

Gilles Barbier’s Life-Like Absurdist Sculptures

Gilles Barbier, humor, sculpture, self-portrait, wax

September 17, 2015

Born on the island of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean, artist Gilles Barbier is most well-known for his series of aging super heroes. In "L'Hospice," a grey-haired Wonder Woman with sagging breasts and square hips cares for Captain America, who attached to an IV, lies bloated and incapacitated on a gurney. In another corner, a wrinkled Cat Woman sleeps in front of the TV, while next to her, a deflated and anemic hulk sits comfortably in a wheelchair. Like all of Barbier's works, most of which feature his own self-portrait, "L'Hospice" uses the absurd to reflect on the darker and more difficult themes of aging and the collapse of dreams and ideals.

Chiharu Shiota’s Recent ‘Drawings in Space’

Chiharu Shiota, Installation Art, sculpture

January 3, 2018

Chiharu Shiota has called her thread installations “drawings in space.” Using antique furniture and other objects evoking memory, her work has explored how we're tethered to the past and each other. Shiota's work, and her performance art, has recently taken over spaces at KODE-Art Museum of Bergen in Norway, Museum Nikolaikirche in Berlin, Kenji Taki Gallery in Japan, and SCAD Museum of Art in Georgia. The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Angela Glajcar’s Astonishing Sculptures Made from White Paper

Janet Echelman Builds Ethereal Aerial Sculpture High Above Boston

Dennis Mcnett aka Wolfbat’s Wood Carvings Mix Punk and Norse Imagery

Gilles Barbier’s Life-Like Absurdist Sculptures

Chiharu Shiota’s Recent ‘Drawings in Space’

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