Looking for Mother (2002).
Gourmand (2002).
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Sculpture
Exotic France in Harbin
French Girl.
One of the snow sculptures at the 20th International Ice-Snow Sculpture Expo in Harbin, China, which opened on Thursday. Exotic France in Harbin is the theme this year although this “French Girl” looks more like the kind of heroic revolutionary sculpture favoured by Communist regimes than anything that might originate in France. More pictures here.
Update: More and better pictures here.
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• Dead Monuments
Giant Lantern Festival
The Giant Lantern Festival is an annual festival held in December (Saturday before Christmas Eve) in the City of San Fernando in the Philippines. The festival features a competition of giant lanterns. Because of the popularity of the festival, the city has been nicknamed the “Christmas Capital of the Philippines”.
Lots of Flickr photos and YouTube video.
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• Maximum Silence by Giancarlo Neri
Kirsten Hassenfeld’s paper sculptures
Dans la Lune (2007).
Dans la Lune (2007).
“Il est dans la lune” can be translated as “He’s got his head in the clouds,” or “He’s on another planet.” Dans la Lune is a perfect title because in my work I try to create an imaginary place that relates to our longings for a better, grander existence.
Gorgeous paper sculptures inspired by Fabergé eggs and that favourite fetish object of mine, Ernst Haeckel’s Art Forms in Nature. These are from a show at the Rice University Art Gallery, Texas. The Bellwether Gallery has an overview of Hassenfeld’s work back to 2001. Via Kimberly Brooks.
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• Darwin Day
• The glass menagerie
Lalique’s dragonflies
Dragonfly woman corsage ornament (1897–1898).
Gold, enamel, chrysoprase, moonstones, and diamonds.
Seeing as dragonflies emerged as a theme this week I can’t resist mentioning my favourite of all, this bizarre confection by glass artist and jeweller René Lalique (1860–1945), a dragonfly with female torso and gryphon claws. This was owned by wealthy Armenian collector Calouste Gulbenkian (in whose museum it now resides) and was worn once by Sarah Bernhardt. You can barely tell from this picture but the delicate gold wings are hinged at several points so they wouldn’t be obtrusive for the wearer.
The Lalique company made more glassware than they did jewellery and these included a range of unique automobile mascots whose pedestrian-puncturing potential saw them banished to museum cabinets as road safety laws evolved. The dragonfly design was an especially splendid example, being placed above a multicoloured disc lit from beneath which rotated in accordance with the speed of the car. The faster the car travelled, the faster the colours changed.
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• Lucien Gaillard
• Wesley Fleming’s glass insects
• The glass menagerie