Video: One to one: wooden sculptures of soda cans and other household items
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Caroline Slotte lives and works in Finland. Her work is distinguished by simplicity and a non-standard approach to objects and materials. Thus, in a series of works under the general title "One-to-One", the artist plays with the audience's perception, offering to evaluate objects from everyday life in their wooden embodiment.
Caroline graduated from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway and holds an MA in Ceramic Art. In addition, she studied for a long time in Denmark and Finland. From 2007-2011, Slotte was a Research Fellow under the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Program. In addition, the artist was a member of the interdisciplinary research project Creating Art Value.
Caroline mainly works with materials and things that have already served their time. Her favorite theme is antique pottery. However, her arsenal is not limited to ceramics. The artist skillfully handles wooden objects, giving them a second life and giving them new meanings. For example, one of Caroline's projects, One-to-One, is a kind of game with the audience's perception of objects: the artist presented in a tree what almost everyone encounters in everyday life. Flattened soda cans, plastic bottles and cocktail tubes are all made of wood.
Slotte's works have long been recognized worldwide. The artist exhibits a lot, and some of her works have been acquired by renowned museums and galleries. These include the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, London's Victoria & Albert Museum, the Design Museum in Helsinki and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Oslo.
A young American artist, sculptor and graphic artist, Crystal Wagner, like Slotte and many other artists, uses old materials to create her works. She often finds parts for future installations right on the street, and sometimes buys everything she needs in the cheapest stores.
Recommended:
Visiting Gulliver. Giant household items in sculptures by Lilian Bourgeat
Even if you have impressive height and weight, and in cinemas people grumble unhappily if they have to sit behind you, there is such a place in the world where you can feel not just a short person, but tiny, tiny. You just need to be at the exhibition of sculptures by Lilian Bourgeat, who creates truly gigantic household items, as if intended as a gift to Gulliver from grateful midgets
Optical illusion: funny faces on household items
Have you ever noticed that a funny face is "looking" at you from the washing machine? Or, looking at an ordinary soap dish, could you see a little man in it? This strange impression is called pareidolia - a type of visual illusion based on the details of a real object
Strange fruits. Unusual household items and decor from the Fruits collection by Hisakazu Shimizu
If in real life humanity is fighting against GMOs by sticking appropriate labels on food, then designers have nothing to worry about - their modified "organisms" have the right to life, and are often much more in demand and popular than "natural products". People are drawn to everything original and unusual, which was used by the Japanese author Hisakazu Shimizu, creating a collection of unusual household items and decor Fruits
Sculptures from household items. Creativity Federico Uribe
I think it’s not the first time for us to admire the talent of sculptors and artists who can create amazing things from old and unnecessary things gathering dust in closets, attics and mezzanines. Most recently, we looked at what can be made from old bent forks, and today we will get acquainted with the sculptures and paintings that the artist Federico Uribe from Miami creates from any household items
Light installations from household items from Ivan Navarro
Ivan Navarro is an artist who paints with light. He knows how to make the most ordinary household things glow. He creates light installations from them, many of which are now in the most prestigious galleries in the world