sculpture Archives

Lloyd Kahn
Shelter not Cabinporn

Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.

Freddy Mamani
Totems of Andean Futurism

His buildings are nothing less than an exuberant act of self-expression by Bolivia’s long-marginalized indigenous majority.

The Root Atlas
Unearthed Intelligence

The following drawings are taken from the Wurzelatlas, a book series that began in 1960 and is regarded as the standard work on root research.

Alexis Pichot
Nocturnal Rites of Passage

The long-time exposures Alexis brings back from his solitary immersions into the night reflect a desire for stillness, to retrieve a timeless meaning lost to modern man.

Isamu Noguchi
Playscapes

Noguchi fought for the reintegration of the arts toward some purposeful and social end, and nowhere was this more apparent than in its playground designs.

David Jien
The Tale of the Inner Struggle

The narrative drawings reflect the eternal human struggle for the right path in life, alongside our demons.

Klaudia B. Lewandowski
A Sensuous World

Klaudia B. Lewandowski is a photographer and creator of visual poetry, based in Berlin. She looks at the world through the eyes of a curious child, collecting sticks and stones and flowers along the way.

Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Body Land

For more than forty years, Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been photographing his body immersed in nature. What you see happening in the image happened in front of the lens.

Christopher Alexander
The Timeless Way of Building

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness.

Stanisław Szukalski
Behold! The Fall of Man

Stanisław Szukalski’s strong nationalistic affinity, coupled with a megalomaniac self-image made him the priest of a nation, that was to hail him the greatest of living artists.

Rajni Perera
(M)otherworlds

Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.

Klea McKenna
Automatic Earth

Automatic Earth refers to what I see as a ‘blue print’ that exists within nature; a plan within each organism to automatically generate a particular form or pattern that is then, inevitably flawed.

De Es Schwertberger
Heavy Light

Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.

Piotr Kamler
In Search of Time

Polish animator Piotr Kamler explores the unfathomable and mysterious relationship between movement and time, matter and space.

Spencer Tunick
Body Mass Index

Spencer Tunick photographs individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together.

Noémie Goudal
Heterotopia

Goudal makes no attempt to hide any evidence of fabrication, drawing attention to the artificial, man-made aspect of photography

Charles Fréger
Europe’s Wild Men

A primal heart still beats in Europe. Rural people all over the continent kept the connection to nature’s rhythm and celebrate the seasonal cycle. They invoke death but bestow fertile life.

Las Pozas
de Edward James

Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.

Constantin Brâncuşi
The Serenity of Essence

When I look at the sculptures of Constantin Brâncuşi I feel a deep serenity. It is the revelation of the…

Brenna Murphy
Resonant hyper objects

The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.

Frieder Grindler
Posters 1963 – 2005

Frieder Grindler is one of the big names of German poster design in the second half of the 20th century.

Jon Rafman
New Age Demanded

Jon Rafman explores the impact of technology on contemporary consciousness, modern social interactions, communities and virtual realities.

Saskia Olde-Wolbers
Drowned worlds in slow motion

It is rarely possible that an artist’s vision pierces me to the heart at first glance. Dutch artist Saskia Olde-Wolbers did so. Her clear as a bell vision is unmistakable and unique.