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Ninja November 23rd, 2009

Gregor Gaida learned his craft as a wood sculptor apprentice in Flensburg and is now pursuing a masters degree in Bremen, Germany. His haunting, blank-faced sculptures are part of his Sum of Stories show and will be exhibited at the Adler Gallery next year!

The result of my work is a translation of reality. With it, the spatial object is put into relation while the sum of perceptions reflects the ambiguity of reality.
– Gregor Gaida

When
January 16 – March 6, 2010
Opening reception: January 15, 2010
7:00 PM

Where
Adler Gallery
Hanauer Landstraße 134
60314 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Those children and their chalk drawings hold me spellbound and simultaneously creep me out. You can see more of his work from the gallery here.

Preview

Kind und Kreide III, 2008
Painted polyester resin
75 x 65 x 55 cm

Fahnenträger III, 2008
Painted wood
110cm x 100cm x 80cm

Drummer, 2008
Painted and sprayed wood, aluminum
Flagged base
80 x 65 x 90 cm

Rest von Schwarz, 2008
Painted wood, polyester resin, painted wood, iron, plastic foil
200 x 180 x 195 cm

Fragment-Poly 4, 2008
Painted wood, polyester resin
20 x 10 x 6 cm

Lateral, 2007
Painted wood, chair, cloth
100 x 80 x 60 cm

Teilen und Herrschen, 2005
Painted wood, concrete
Ca. 160 x 240 x 130 cm

Related link
+ Gregor Gaida’s website

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Tags: Adler Gallery, Exhibitions, Germany, Gregor Gaida, Sculptures, Wood

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Ninja July 2nd, 2009

Wow, I am in awe of Wataru Itou’s handmade, papercraft castle. This intricate paper castle took four years to create and includes lights, a ferris wheel, and a moving train! It is on view at the Umi no Ue no Oshiro (A Castle On the Ocean—海の上のお城) exhibition at Uminohotaru.

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Ninja June 3rd, 2009

Following a successful exhibition at Shepard Fairey’s LA Subliminal Gallery, House Industries’ Letters & Ligatures returns to the East Coast. Hosted by 222gallery in Philadelphia, Letters & Ligatures features the type foundry’s prints, patterns, installations and sculptures. The Letters & Ligatures show opens this Friday, June 5 and runs through July 31, 2009.

When
Opening reception: Friday June 5, 6-9 PM
Letters & Ligatures runs through July 31, 2009

Where
222gallery
222 Vine Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
open Mon – Fri, 9-6p
or by appointment

All photos by House Industries

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Ninja May 20th, 2009

Language comes to life in Ebon Heath’s beautiful, kinetic typographic ballet, Stereo.type.

Heath’s intricately hand-cut mobile sculptures (the more recent pieces are laser-cut) feature Tupac and Rakim lyrics, Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, advertising slogans, and religious texts. His cascading tyvec and bristol letters are strung on fine wire and dance in the air. Heath cites Alexander Calder as a strong influence on his work.

Brooklyn-based Ebon Heath is an artist, graphic designer, and a Professor in graphic design at Lehman College (he holds a bachelor’s degree from RISD). He is also the co-founder and partner of Cell Out.

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Ninja February 23rd, 2009

Happy Monday, everyone!

I’m really loving Diem Chau’s crayon sculptures. Chau often uses common, every day objects (she has a miniature series constructed from toothpicks) to create her delicate narratives.

Girl and Dog
Carved crayons & wood base
3″ W x 3.5″ H x 2″ D

Boy and Girl
Carved crayons & wood base
3″ W x 3.5″ H x 3″D

Storytelling Crayons installation view

Boy in Blue, commissioned work
Crayon commissions are available upon request. Please contact Diem at diem@diemchau.com for more information.

Related link
+ Diem Chau’s online gallery

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Ninja February 10th, 2009

Mari Kasurinen is an art teacher from Lahti, who makes pop sculptures from My Little Pony dolls. You can see more of her remixed dolls here. If you’re interested in purchasing or commissioning one, email her at spippo_@hotmail.com.

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Penguin September 2nd, 2008

It takes roughly 40 typewriters and 1,000 hours for Mayer to assemble a full-scale figurine like this reclining female form.
[...]
Mayer, who describes his work as a cross between Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical drawings and the gritty futures imagined by sci-fi maestros William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, assembles his artwork without welding, soldering or gluing.

- Wired

Over the weekend, Ninja mentioned she had a penchant for old school typewriters. I’ve used typewriters, and I’ll take a pc any day. But there is something kind of really awesome about refashioning these old relics and making something fantastic with them.

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Ninja August 14th, 2008

Oh, come on, laugh a little.

Photo from the Zentrum Paul Klee Centre

A powerful gust of wind recently swept a house-sized sculpture of dog feces from its display outside a Swiss museum. The massive inflatable sculpture, created by U.S. contemporary artist Paul McCarthy and titled Complex Shit, is part of the Zentrum Paul Klee Centre’s exhibit East of Eden: A Garden Show.

The wind carried the work away, knocking down a power line and breaking a window at a nearby orphanage before falling to the ground about 200 metres from the centre.

The museum had yet to contact McCarthy about the incident.

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