Francesco Barocco’s sculptures reconsider art history through conflicting modes, pairing elegant 2-dimensional forms with malformed sculptural material that would have once held the subject’s likeness. The effect is both striking and eeries, as the ancient figures appear contemplative in some works, and in agony in others.
“Francesco Barocco urges shapes to become something different, to move towards a formless dimension,” Google’s Arts & Culture says. “In his three studies where he works on the idea of heads, he sets himself on the border between languages, cultures and visions, and reflects on the longevity of certain “timeless” images: he selects three classical icons and disfigures them, placing them on traditional studio ‘pedestals.’”
See more of the artist’s work on Norma Mangione Gallery’s site.
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge became a pioneer of capturing movement when he took position on a popularly-debated question of the day: his photographic sequences proved that all four feet of a horse were inexplicably off the ground at the same time while trotting. Late Dutch artist 
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Hugh Hayden shapes wood, sourced from Christmas trees, exotic timbers, or other unexpected objects, into cerebral recreations of everyday objects. He recently showed recent work at C L E A R I N G’s Brussels gallery, pulling from spiritual, historical, and other aspects of the city to craft the body of work shown. The artist often injects his own personal history into his work, whether in the subject depicted or in the very wood harvested and formed.