14 Amazing Sculptures made from Used Tires

See what happens when old used car and motorcycle tires are turned into beautiful works of art, the results are truly remarkable… According to Korean artist Ji Yong Ho, recycled tires help capture the spirit of the animals because “rubber is very flexible, like skin, like muscles.” [image credit: Yong Ho Ji, Gana Art Gallery] [image credit: sweet-station] [image credit: thememagazine] [image credit: Yong Ho Ji, Gana Art Gallery] [image credit: jalopnik] [image credit: sweet-station] [image credit: hautenature] [image credit: [...]

The Mourners, Bill Viola Exhibitions Opening at Saint Louis Art Museum

SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum opens The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy and Bill Viola: Visitation, two exhibitions presented in tandem this summer that reveal how different artists working more than 500 years apart have chosen to express the most fundamental human emotions. The Mourners, 40 extraordinary alabaster sculptures forming a funeral procession that adorned the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, depict personal responses to the Duke’s death. The exhibition brings [...]

Artist Nasser Azam Relaunches Historic Art Foundry

LONDON.- The Zahra Modern Art Foundries, a major new UK art foundry, has been launched under the ownership of the artist Nasser Azam. Based in a purpose-built facility in Braintree , Essex , and benefiting from highly skilled local craftsmen, the Zahra Modern Art Foundries will build on the tradition and expertise of the Morris Singer Foundry (closed May 2010). The Morris Singer Foundry produced some of London ’s most famous monumental sculptures, including the bronze lions in Trafalgar Square [...]

Italy to Loan Roman Sculptures to the Indianapolis Museum of Art

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced that it will receive a long-term loan of several ancient sculptures from the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome in January 2011. On loan for a renewable two-year period, the objects include three life-size portrait busts and a marble funerary urn from the Vigna Codini Columbarium II, a major Roman tomb discovered in 1847. The loan of the Vigna Codini Tomb group is an example of new types of loans that the Italy-US Memorandum [...]

Chicago Gains a New Eye-Con this Summer with Three-Story Eye

CHICAGO, IL.- Move over Millennium Park “bean”….there’s a new icon in town, and passersby on State Street won’t believe their eyes! Just in time for the influx of summer and fall visitors, the Chicago Loop Alliance (CLA) will present EYE, an incredibly lifelike three-story (30-foot-tall) eyeball sculpture by internationally-renowned, Chicago-based contemporary artist Tony Tasset, to be mounted at Pritzker Park at the corner of State Street and Van Buren. EYE will be officially unveiled Wednesday morning, July 7, and remain [...]

World-Renowned Sculptors Unite to Honor Major Philanthropists

GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- In just 15 years, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park has established a permanent sculpture collection of international acclaim built by two philanthropists who collected solely for public enrichment and enjoyment. The world’s most renowned sculptors working today have united to present an exclusive group exhibition honoring the organization’s namesakes. “Sculptors Celebrate the Legacy of Fred and Lena Meijer” will be on display June 4 – January 2, 2011. The exhibition features works by 26 of the [...]

Calder’s Le Guichet will Spend the Summer at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

BROOKLYN, NY.- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced that Le Guichet (The Box Office) by Alexander Calder will be on view in the Osborne Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden from June 4 through the end of summer. Earlier this year, Lincoln Center paid tribute to Mayor Bloomberg at its annual spring gala by offering to move the work by Calder to any place in New York City of his choosing for [...]

Antony Gormley Creates a Major New Installation at White Cube

LONDON.- White Cube Mason’s Yard presents a new exhibition by Antony Gormley. The artist has created a major new site-specific installation and a new series of cast iron block-work sculptures. Engaging our mobility, Gormley considers how time acts on objects and how objects act on us. In the lower ground-floor gallery, Gormley will exhibit a new installation of Breathing Room III the third and largest in this series of works which contain and implicate the viewer as the figure in [...]

Denver Airport’s Latest Sculpture: God of the Dead

DENVER (AP).- Sculptures outside Denver International Airport already include a 30-foot-tall, rearing blue mustang with glowing red eyes, nicknamed “Bluecifer” by snickering locals. Now the airport has another statue: a 26-foot tall replica of the Egyptian god of the dead. Workers erected the seven-ton replica of Anubis on Wednesday next to the main terminal to promote an upcoming King Tut exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. The statue has promoted the exhibit in other cities too. It’s not far from [...]

Allegra LaViola Gallery Opens Show with Sculptural Works Attached to the Wall

NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Off The Wall, a group show comprised of sculptural works attached to the wall. The origin of the term “off the wall” remains unclear, but it is a relatively new phrase, used to describe something, or someone, who is zany, untraditional and unusual. Though the concept of three-dimensional works that are still on the wall is not new, the seven artists included in this exhibition are pushing the boundaries of how sculptural form [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell One of the Most Iconic Works of Art by Bharti Kher

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale Bharti Kher’s celebrated sculpture The Skin Speaks a Language not its Own, one of the most iconic and most talked-about works of art by a contemporary Indian artist and the masterpiece of the leading female artist of her generation. Awe-inspiring in its scale, detail and beauty, this life-sized female Indian elephant, will be offered in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Monday, June 28, 2010. The work appears at auction for [...]

Nicola Carrino at A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan

MILAN.- On Thursday 20 May 2010 an exhibition devoted to the artist Nicola Carrino opened at A arte Studio Invernizzi. On this occasion the artist presented a work specially created for the spaces of the gallery entitled ‘Ricostruttivi Progetto Invernizzi 2009.2010′ (Reconstructives Invernizzi Project 2009.2010). Starting from the premise that ‘in order to reconstruct, it is necessary to return to basics’, as Carrino himself wrote, ‘the Ricostruttivi, like the previous ‘Costruttivi’ (Constructives) and ‘Decostruttivi’ (Deconstructives), are open sculptural systems that [...]

Joslyn Art Museum Outdoor Garden Galleries Showcases Three New Sculptures

OMAHA, NE.- Large-scale works by two major contemporary American sculptors and a figurative bronze by preeminent French sculptor Auguste Rodin were positioned in locations across the Joslyn Art Museum campus this month. Joslyn Art Museum’s One of the Burghers of Calais: Andrieu d’Andres, immortalized by Rodin (French, 1840–1917) and the generous gift of John and Carmen Gottschalk, G. Woodsen Howe, and Anda Howe (2002), moved from the Museum’s concert hall foyer to the southeast corner of the Peter Kiewit Foundation [...]

Hammer Museum Present New Sculptural Work by Architect Greg Lynn

LOS ANGELES, CA.- This summer, the Hammer Museum will present a new sculptural work by Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn. A fantastical attraction for visitors of all ages, Fountain will be located in the museum’s outdoor courtyard. The work is a functioning fountain made entirely out of found large plastic children’s toys that have been cut and reassembled in multiple layers, with water spouting from its top and pooling at its base. Constructed from more than seventy-five prefabricated plastic whale [...]

IVAM Offers Bernar Venet His First Show in a Spanish Museum

VALENCIA.- The first exhibition in a Spanish museum dedicated to Bernar Venet gathers 53 works and a representative selection of the conceptual work developed by Bernar Venet during different phases of his artistic career. Part of his work was characterized by the use of poor materials, new media such as the video, the sound recording and the photography in order to document performances and actions and the advent of unpredictable situations. Works such as Performance dans les détritus (Performance within [...]