Haroshi has taken sculpture to a whole new level. As a boy and teenager, he liked to skateboard and became a skateboard enthusiast. He eventually gained an extensive knowledge of the different types of skateboards as well as their shapes and which ones would fit easily together. Today he takes broken/old/outdated skateboards and combines them to make sculptures. The most interesting part is that he also takes an old outdated piece of metal, like a wheel, and places it in the inside of the sculpture, however, you can't see that piece. You just have to know that it's in there. The interesting part about that though, is that Haroshi says that it gives the piece sort of a soul, which I find very cool. I love the idea of having a part of a sculpture that only the artist fully knows about, it just gives the artist and artwork a new connection that I find secretive and beautiful, I plan on using this in the future.
The visual aspect of these sculptures it what originally drew me to them. The stripes of color and the marbley looking texture give the sculptures a beautiful surface that you really really want to touch. I also really like the negative space in some of his pieces, like the hands. Then, there are other pieces like the apple, made out of the pixel looking pieces, and the contrast between the different directions of the lines of color is amazing. I really like these artworks because their firstly very visually attractive, and then the more you learn about them, the more interesting they become. I really wonder what the souls of these pieces look like.
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VandenbergThis has been one of my favorite art projects for many years. Basically, Andreas has taken photographs of this shipwreck; The Vandenberg(Sunken off the coast of Key West), and then superimposed photographs of people doing everyday things on to the shipwreck. My favorite thing about this exhibit is that it's the only one like this, other than his other works. Divers could swim up to the wreckage and view the photographs mounted on the ship for the original 4 months that they were down there, and though they were protected by two sheets of plexiglass and sealed with silicon in a steel frame, the effects of the ocean are still seen on the photographs, giving them an even more hauntingly beautiful look. This transformation made them into completely new works of art, possibly even more beautiful. This project is just completely incredible, the photographs of the ship themselves would have been beautiful enough, but when Andreas superimposes the photographs are regular people doing regular things, it gives the photographs such a hauntingly beautiful feeling that just intrigues me, it brings the shipwreck to life, which on its own is already incredibly beautiful and eerie. Then the idea of letting the ocean add its touches to the work is such an amazing idea, and since Andreas was one of the first to actually have an exhibit like this underwater, it gives it an extra layer of magnificence. I could stare at this exhibit for hours, I only wish I had had the chance to see it underwater, it must have been so incredibly intriguing and beautiful. BAck at it Again!StavronikitaAndreas is doing it AGAIN, but this time off of the coast of Barbados. This time, the shipwreck is the SS Stavronikita. The photographs have the same general idea, except that now the photographs are taken of people during the Rococo era, because Andreas thought that that fit the mood well. This exhibit is equally as beautiful, but I think I like the first one better, I feel like the dressing up of the people disrupts the balance between shipwreck and photograph, leading this exhibit to focus more n the individuals rather than the backdrop. The only reason that this leads me to like the Vandenberg better is because it feels more hauntingly beautiful and intriguing whereas this one is just a little too extravagant with the figures.
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