Video: Machine Man: Sculptures and Installations by Brooklyn Artist Stephen Shaheen
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The purpose of the American artist Stephen Shahin (Stephen shaheen), in his own words, "blurring the lines between art, design and architecture." Shahin's expressive installations, in which he brings his principles to life, are popular with audiences and critics throughout Europe and the United States.
One of Shahin's most successful installations bears an ambiguous title Headlights … This is a play on words: a word that simply means "light bulb" is interpreted here literally - "lights in the head." As a result, frightening people-lamps come to life before the eyes of the audience, who reach for the outlet like a drug addict to a syringe.
To create his sometimes provocative works, Shahin turns to non-standard materials. Often he sculpts from marble - which in our time has long gone out of fashion among sculptors. Along with this, the Brooklyn citizen is in use - denim, recycled production waste and, as you can see, taking another look at Headlights, everyday objects like light bulbs.
Stephen Shaheen received his art education in Italy, completing his Master of Fine Arts degree from his native New York in 2005. For almost ten years now, Shahin has been successfully pursuing a career in the world of contemporary art: his works are exhibited in leading museums around the world, and individual installations - for example, a 100-ton sculpture made of marble and granite called Memoria (2002) and an art object created from five thousand metro passes Metrobench (2011) - cause a stir in the specialized press.
Jean-Michel Basquiat died, but his halo of fame continues to support life in Brooklyn, which remains one of the centers of contemporary art in America. Proof of this are the amusing installations designed for the most widespread acceptance like "Gingerbread Brooklyn" Rene Baumann and the more serious and ambitious works of Stephen Shahin. The artist continues his search for the most radical ways, and, apparently, in the future, connoisseurs of contemporary art will repeatedly hear the name of Shahin.
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