John McCracken

thinking with the body

dorothea tanning

circular

1. Maurizio Mochetti, Cilindro - Due dischi di luce(1968).
2.  Matt Bryans, untitled (2008).

valerie hammond

Arms spreading.
Lithographs and wax sculpture by Valerie Hammond

Janet Echelman

"Janet Echelman creates experiential sculpture at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light. The art shifts from being an object you look at, to a living environment you can get lost in. Using unlikely materials from fishnet to atomized water particles, Echelman combines ancient craft with cutting-edge technology to create artworks that have become focal points for urban life on four continents."

changing skin

These beautiful and delicate sculptures, made of paper and glue, were made by French artist, Mathilde Roussel. Meant to emulate human skin, these folded sculptures serve as a metaphor for everyday human change:

"We imperceptibly change everyday as if we were changing skin. The Mues sculptures make visible this metamorphosis through imprints of a body at the specific time. They are clothing of empty skin that we fold and keep to put on a new one. This skin becomes the trace of the time passing and the memory of an anterior life."

See more on Mathildes website

Janine Antoni

“My work has always focused on the body and how it exists in the world; how it makes meaning. It’s an exploration of what it means to be female; it’s important to claim that."

"Our bodies physically store our memories. We are the history of our lives, so to be in touch with one’s body is to have access to those memories.”

“We treat our bodies as a vehicle to transport our thinking minds. I’ve been on a journey to embodiment. I want to enter my body, to trust it. I want to make sculptures that talked about that experience. Making this work has been a way to externalize a bodily understanding. Making has been a form of healing.”

All works and quotes from Janine Antoni

Peter Jansen

Peter Jansen (1956-2011) pioneered digital sculpting of sequential human movement in space and time. He worked with 3D CG software to create overlapping frames of movement and then had the result made into physical form via the thee dimensional printing systems of rapid prototyping technology.

Fabrizio Corneli

Light sculptures by Fabrizio Corneli

Saturday Cartoon

VISIONS OF VISIONARIES WITH ERYKAH BADU from MADE on Vimeo.

"Creativity is freedom...it's the absence of fear."

image found here

Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm's One Minute Sculptures make me think of mini rituals.

Images from here and here.

Floating savasana!
'Edge' by Antony Gormley

Katie Grinnan

Katie Grinnan’s Mirage (2011) Made of plastic, enamel, and sand, the sculpture was formed from the casts of the artist’s body in different positions of her yoga routine.

found here.