Rachel Whiteread
also known as Dame Rachel Whiteread is an English artist who creates sculptures from casts of materials such as resin. her casted art focuses on mimicking the impression of realism from the places she re creates as sculptures. Rachel is most renowned for creating a concrete cast of an entire old Victorian house the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial house in Vienna, alongside being the first woman to win the annual Turner prize. much of her re created sculptures and casts are the impression of taking ordinary domestic objects and pieces of life and turning that into negative space focusing on aspects such as open areas and architecture in her casts. her direction takes that of line and form using details and indents in the natural moulds to create her sculptures.
in the 1980s Rachel whitehead studied painting and sculpture at the Brighton polytechnic slade school of fine art. her largest solo gallery featured her sculpture piece Ghost. an exhibition holding the casted sculpture made from a room house on archway road north London. this piece specifically relating to her own home much like her other works of art. one of her sculpture piece being reminiscent of her childhood memories this sculpture was that of an interior cast of an wardrobe. both her parents were passed in a spectrum of art and architecture. her childhood being based in London. her fathers interest of architecture and urban houses impacted her artistic style and choices. her art displaying the concept that her sculptures in process reveal daily life the traces of former uses and previous lives.
in as sense I believe her art is directive between memories and a practical stance of a permanent perspective taking a mould of something to keep forever showing through as sculpture the essence and the reminiscent memories of what the sculpture once was.
sculpture reference:
detached April 11- may 25 2013 Britannia street London
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Antony Gormley
sir Antony mark David Gormley is a British sculptor and is was the youngest of seven, his mother being German and his father Irish. he attended a boarding school college in Yorkshire before gaining interest towards the history of art at the trinity college of Cambridge.as a student he typically travelled the world. He later attended saint martins school of arts and goldsmiths in London from 1971 graduating in sculpture and completing a postgraduate course at slade university school of fine art London. in 1981 he held a solo exhibition at Whitechapel art gallery.
Antony’s work is based around the human body and creates his sculptures as a subject of that form to create metal casts in his own words he states” an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live”
Antony’s work has been featured across the uk with exhibitions ranging across the world in London, Greece, Shanghai Philadelphia and so on.
His art to what I believe is based on a surreal perspective of how life or the human body can be represented. to his own agenda it parallels the reality of this world to the other perspective I his art like a mirror. I believe his art takes on a slightly paranormal approach to representing one own soul in a human figure. his sculptures and drawings carrying across his desired creative mind or the human body and space.
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xooang choi
xooang choi is contemporary korean sculptor and instillation artist who lives in Seoul. his work outreached first in parish, bejing and signapore. xooang bases his work on emotions and the human body. His art is themed around emotions and how they control us, they impact how people feel. his art focuses on the realism of human feelings frozen his art interested towards social systems. his artwork is strong with how he represents body language with exagerated form and proportion.
xooang choi creates his art from clay and resin. his sculptures are highly detailed creating very powerful expressions and movements. his work is very based on hyperrealism creating sculptures that are distorted, exaggerated. as N rtiat hia aim with his sculptures is to explore social and value systems and the way they impact humans being figurative with body language, to get people to raise questions.
his exhibitions have been based in muesames and galleries such as: the nationoal muesame of contemporary art, himhae arts centre, the muesame of art seoul national university among others.he was norn 1975 in korea and went onm in life to recieve his MFA in sculpture from seoul national university in 2005.
his work soley is something bizare and abstract, it creates a particular feeling and tone with how the sculptures are colures, posed and detailed to speak an underlying message to the audeince.
here are some examples of his work
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