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Kansas City chainsaw artist TJ Jenkins turns damaged trees into sculptures
A Kansas City artist is employing a chainsaw to develop a piece of art in Parkville.”When I started out, it was just a cylinder and everyone just appeared at it humorous and reported, ‘What are you undertaking?'” said T.J. Jenkins.Jenkins is very good with a chainsaw. Some of his work is pretty famous, such as an eagle in English Landing Park in Parkville.”He did not want to see this tree go to squander,” Jenkins explained.It was a tree that was struck by lightning, so the town determined to switch it into a sculpture.”I have a tricky time calling myself an artist. I just began clawing absent at chunks of wooden,”…
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Artist Jeff Koons aims to send sculptures to the Moon on commercial lunar lander
Later this 12 months, American artist Jeff Koons will be displaying some of his most current sculptures in their most unique place still: the surface area of the Moon. Many thanks to a new collaboration, Koons will make some new sculptures that will journey to the lunar surface area on a robotic lunar lander designed by Houston-primarily based corporation Intuitive Machines. Intuitive Machines’ lander is referred to as Nova-C, which the firm has been developing in partnership with NASA. For the final couple of a long time, NASA has been actively performing towards sending human beings again to the Moon by way of its Artemis plan. And as component of…
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In Storage or ‘In Situ’? 75-Year-Old Artist Guillaume Bijl Works From Home Surrounded by His Weird and Wonderful Large-Scale Sculptures
On Manhattan’s Higher East Facet, Belgian artist Guillaume Bijl has designed a fortune teller’s den, decked out with glowing neon indications and embroidered floor pillows scattered throughout a plush pink carpet. The installation now on watch at Meredith Rosen Gallery is Bijl at his best: a spirited and humorous aesthetic that hints at deeper, and at times darker, undercurrents. Bijl, who is now 75, 1st rose to interest in the 1960s as a self-taught artist painting in a style that mimicked anything from Impressionism to Surrealism. By the late 1970s, he’d started to incorporate located objects and genuine residence decor into his increasingly elaborate vignettes. These opulently detailed installations have appear to embody…