An Artist Creates Complex Sculptures Only from Cardboard

Daniel Agdag‘s whimsical, complex sculptures are crafted entirely from cardboard and depict eccentric machines. The Australian performer, who’s also a filmmaker, labels his work “sketching with cardboard,” as he does not utilize intricate planning, measuring, or sketching to pull off each piece, despite its own meticulous appearance. Instead, the plays with the elements until he pleased.

“He will tell you that he gets things out of cardboard,” says MARS Art Gallery at Melbourne. “He is modest. This declaration in no way illuminates the delicate kind and bizarre narrative of his work. To say he compels the medium to its limits is an understatement. His process is quite much like freehand drawing. He spends a great deal of time thinking and absorbing objects in the built environment, their wonderful information and acts, which leads him to shape narratives. After this is firmly resolved in his thoughts, various components of the work start to emerge, fitting together to compliment the overall idea slowly.”

Lee Kwang-ho’s Immersive Hyperrealistic Cactus Paintings

Korean painter Kwang-ho Lee depicts larger-than-life cacti in oil paintings which stand up to 8-feet tall. Every thorn, blossom, and division is painted with excruciating accuracy, bringing the most molecular components into hyperrealistic focus. Lee studied painting in Seoul National University and can be represented by Johyun Gallery.

Vincent Leroy’s Mesmeric Installation is a Dimensional Experience With Suspended Structures

Motivated by a wave breaker which Vincent Leroy had observed in Japan, the French artist imagines his latest installation entitled ‘Nebula.’ This time, the tide breaker is not in concrete but a mild inflatable construction. The major volume moves slowly towards you in this completely immersive plot.

Parisian based Vincent Leroy’s ‘nebula’ includes twelve modules without a connection to the ground, seeming to be in levitation. The installation floats with extreme elegance, elegance, and voluptuousness, and takes us into a spatial experience. The black mirror texture creates a twisted reflection. Regardless, you can view across the module via a transparent segment in the middle.

Once more, Vincent Leroy’s setup manages to lose your mark. The artist’s diffused work savors slow revolutions and enjoys slowing down the pace with the mechanism which seems magical. He likes to take his own time, breaking down each gesture which counts in his eyes. Leroy’s installations aren’t only visual but experiential — engaging and connecting mind, body and soul. These exhibitions will plunge the visitors into the world of the artist, a reflection on our relationship with all the speed, the space with the fact — so crucial in the world today.

A hunt for the natural rhythm of its internal harmony is conceived. This installation is performed with a particular soundtrack by whistling audio designer Jérôme Eechenoz. It’s broadcasted from four unique directions, moving at precisely the same rate around and within the scheme.

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Artist Plants Sparkling Spiral Vortexes into Miniature Glass Marbles

Adam Smolensky of Smo Glass compresses mystifying vortexes into small glass marbles. His colorful, handcrafted creations match between your fingers, but since you seem inside, they seem vast–as if their spirals could go on forever. While these coils are common themes in Smolensky’s job, it’s just one facet of his fabulous designs. Additionally, he creates patterning reminiscent of scales and sea coral, with layered textures that build a beautiful visual complexity inside the half-to-two-inch pieces.

Smolensky recently shared one of his own art glass marbles on Reddit. It was a close-up shot of a “glass vortex marble” with a swirling rainbow layout and glittery center. “All my vortex marbles are done on [a] strong rod,” he explains, meaning that they’re shaped on the tip of a glass stick. As for the sparkling feature, that is the work of fuming–a method where the glass is placed in a metal “smoke” and becomes embedded within.

If you would like to get your hands on those miniature, infinite galaxies, Smolensky sells marbles, dishes, and sculptures throughout his online shop.

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Alma Haser’s Puzzling Portraits of Identical Twins

In her most recent series, German photographer Alma Haser combines the portraits of several pairs of twins by literally puzzling their images together. Haser first photographs every twin individually, then prints their corresponding photograph onto a 500 or even 1000-piece puzzle. Finally, Haser Gradually switches each other piece to make two works that are an equal combination of each sibling.

In earlier works, in the series, Haser only switched the twins’ faces, rather than melding their full-length portraits. In the side-by-side images of the twin brothers below, it is difficult to tell if anything is swapped if you don’t narrow your attention to the subjects’ eyes.

Haser lately contributed a few portraits from this series to the group exhibition The Body Issue: Individual Stories at NOW Gallery at London. You may see more of her portraiture between twins on her site and Instagram.