Video: Perspective sculptures by James Hopkins
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
How can you describe the items in the image above? On one part of it, of course, the well-known and beloved characters of the cartoon "Tom and Jerry". On the second half there are incomprehensible objects, randomly laid out on the table. Now imagine that both of these images are actually photographs of the same sculpture, only from different points of view. Hard to believe, right? “Perspective is a great thing,” says James Hopkins, author of extraordinary works.
The author's works from the Perspective Sculptures series are brightly colored works, the main highlight of which is that they must be viewed from one specific angle. From all other perspectives, sculptures lose all meaning and seem like an incomprehensible jumble of strange objects. The characters in James Hopkins' Perspective Sculptures are mostly cartoon characters. The already mentioned Tom and Jerry, The Simpsons, Mickey Mouse …
"In my works, everything is not what it seems, because I use perspective and illusion. And depending on the point of view from which you look at the installation, you can see different things" - we have already quoted these words of James Hopkins on pages of our blog, talking about it installations in the form of skulls. This statement is quite applicable to the series of works presented in today's article.
James Hopkins was born in 1976 in Stockport (UK). He holds an MA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2001) and a BA in Sculpture from the University of Brighton (1998).
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