Alternative Sculpture

It's so exciting to see how uniquely creative artists are, & how they are pushing the boundaries of conventional sculpture. There's an amazing array of materials used in the sculpture found here: glass, acrylic, metals, ice, light, you name it. I love exploring the limitless ingenuity of artists in Alternative Sculpture, the superb art, & shining a light on the artists that created them.

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‘Gaia’s Garden’, bronze & stainless steel sculpture i

Linda Brunker making original wax sculpture for 'Gaia's Garden'.

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TeamLab's 'Borderless' Art Installation - Video Link

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teamLab's Borderless, Everchanging Digital Art Installation

Watch the video here

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Art Installation Collective teamLab is a group of animators, architects, artists, engineers, mathematicians & programmers 

"Team Lab" an international collective, create art installations thru belief in the power of digital technology & creative talent. In the process of creating projects, their team grew, artists, animators, architects, mathematicians, graphic artists were added.

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House of Book, Madrid

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Mirror Houses by Doug Aitken

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'Two Carps' Art Installation in Palazzo della Ragione di Padova

Alternative Sculpture in an important historical space - Palazzo della Ragione di Padova Piazza delle Erbe, Padova, Italy.

“Our goal was to turn this huge empty space into a metaphor for a Japanese garden, so we imagined two giant "koi” carp floating in space. The backlit path (project image as pavement) will guide visitors, through different architectural pavilions in the garden, & towards some important points of the existing building making it part of this promenade experience.“

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The Kelpies - World’s Largest Pair of Equine Sculptures!

Standing 30 metres (100ft) tall, The Kelpies stand majestically above all around them and pay homage to the working horses of Scotland which used to pull barges along Scotland’s canals and worked in the fields in the area where they now stand.

Towering over a new canal extension which links the Forth & Clyde Canal to the North Sea, The Kelpies are the result of a unique collaboration between the partners and Glasgow-based artist Andy Scott. Almost a decade in the making, the project has transformed 350 hectares of underused land between Falkirk and Grangemouth into a vibrant parkland, visitor attraction and marine hub with the canal and The Kelpies at its heart.

-> See a beautiful video of The Kelpies below

Here's The Kelpies being built.... It shows how massive the sheets of metal that went into its building are, and the overall scale of sculpture.

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Shipwrecks & Deep Ocean Scenes Encapsulated Inside Translucent Whale Sculptures

Japanese artist Isana Yamada‘ s project Samsara is composed of six translucent whales mounted on thin pedestals that give each of the sculptures an illusion of movement. The whales, illuminated from within, provide a window to strange worlds locked inside their resin-coated bodies: churning submarine volcanoes, fluffy white clouds, and even polar bear skeletons that float within. The project, staged at Tokyo University of the Arts, references the circle of existence found in Buddhist traditions with each whale displaying a separate scene. The whale that represents the human dimension contains a sunken sailboat, imagery that symbolizes a difficult voyage or plight.

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Reimagined Scrap Metal Sculptures - by John Lopez

John Lopez, a successful artist residing in South Dakota, creates unbelievable sculptures from scrap metal. Pieces of old farm machinery and equipment, musical instruments, chains and many other old metal objects found their way into Lopez’s huge rusty Western-themed animal sculptures, which include life-sized buffaloes and horses.

“My favorite part about these pieces is the texture,” explains Lopez. “I just start grabbin’ stuff from the pile and welding it, and if you weld enough of the same thing on over and over it creates this really cool texture that I’ve never seen in these kinds of pieces before. And I think that’s what draws people in.”

Fore more, see -> Alternative Sculpture blog, & Reimagine, Reinvent & Repurpose - Assemblage Sculpture & More blog

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Reimagined Scrap Metal Sculptures - by John Lopez

John Lopez, a successful artist residing in South Dakota, creates unbelievable sculptures from scrap metal. Pieces of old farm machinery and equipment, musical instruments, chains and many other old metal objects found their way into Lopez’s huge rusty Western-themed animal sculptures, which include life-sized buffaloes and horses.

“My favorite part about these pieces is the texture,” explains Lopez. “I just start grabbin’ stuff from the pile and welding it, and if you weld enough of the same thing on over and over it creates this really cool texture that I’ve never seen in these kinds of pieces before. And I think that’s what draws people in.”

Fore more, see -> Alternative Sculpture blog, & Reimagine, Reinvent & Repurpose - Assemblage Sculpture & More blog

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Spectacular Ceramic Sculptures Which Seem to Disintegrate

Focusing mostly on the human body, Seoul-based ceramic artist Lee Haejin creates abstract ceramic sculptures that seem to unravel before your eyes. These surreal works appear twisted and with multiplied features that turn reality into chaos.

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Green Mirror Maze in San Antonio, Texas

This is an image taken inside the mirror maze in San Antonio this is completely unedited this is SOC. Yup. If you were to go straight down that 'hallway" you'd be smacking right into a mirror LOL | Alternative Sculpture - Art Installations |

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Waterfall on the Audi R8 | Digital Waterfalls with Projection Mapping

Nature is a beautiful thing, and it turns out, you can get a piece of it with teamLab’s amazing waterfall projection mapping installations. The Japanese Studio designed a series of wonderful exhibits showcasing digitally projection mapped waterfalls. For the video of their installation "Waterfall on the Audi R8" click here.

Their most recent installation, entitled Universe of Water Particles Under Satellite’s Gravity is a combination of a giant model of the ALOS-2 satellite and a breathtaking waterfall simulation rendered in unbelievable detail. teamLab uses their own custom tuned physics engine to simulate thousands of water droplets falling and interacting with each other before reaching the satellite and evaporating away. According to teamLab, only 0.1% of the water particles from the simulation are selected and rendered with lines drawn between particles and the satellite. In their own words:

“In traditional Japanese painting, oceans, rivers and bodies of water are expressed as a curvilinear series of lines. These lines give the impression of life, as though water itself were a living creature.”

The mesmerizing piece is featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

For more, see -> Alternative Sculpture and Installations on tumblr

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The Kelpies Sculpture in Falkirk, Scotland

The Helix: Home of the Kelpies covers over 350 hectares of green space between Falkirk and Grangemouth. The Helix includes the Plaza Cafe, the lagoon, woodland and wetland areas, miles of pathways and the Adventure Zone play area. The jewel in The Helix project is The Kelpies - the world's largest equine sculptures, standing at 30 meters tall and weighing over 300 tons each.

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Massive Iberian Lynx - Made of recycled material in Lisbon

Massive new sculpture representing an Iberian Lynx made of recycled material by Bordalo II and his team in Lisbon

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"The Guitar Tornado" from the Experience Music Project in Seattle

-- The Sculpture is Surprisingly Playable --

The Guitar Tribute Tornado is the true-to-life definition of "art that rocks." This gigantic installation in Seattle's 'Experience Music Project' is made up of tons of guitars all attached to one another in a vortex of music and melodies. The Guitar Tribute Tornado was created by German artist Trimpin and is surprisingly playable. Robot motors on some of the guitars play the same chords in unison to create one giant guitar solo. Check out the installation in the gallery above and make sure to see it live if you happen to be in Seattle.