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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Indoor Street Art by Paul Baines

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 03:35 AM PDT

At last a site offering a range of great underground art prints that contributes to the plight of the Japanese following the recent triple whammy disaster of a Tsunami, earthquake and nuclear disaster. If someone had pitched this as a script in LA LA Land last year I doubt anyone would have taken it seriously, but there you go, we are all going to die. So think a little bigger, feel a little more, and gain a great print for your trouble. They're all available at The Poster Cause Project (http://shop.thepostercauseproject.com/collections/japan-earthquake-relief-prints) and are on sale at $15 each, 6" x 11" and limited to 100 of each design. Here are a few of my faves to look over…

Oli Soden

Anthony Garrett Hurd

Josh Geiser

Joshua Budich

Monk

Catch 'em all at Poster Cause

Super Sized Sculptures

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 06:23 PM PDT

Rómulo Celdrán's series of sculptures entitled "Macro" features a selection of super sized household objects such as a giant burnt matchstick and an enormous blue plastic ballpoint pen lid, complete with bite marks! The pieces are incredibly realistic, obviously a great deal of careful examination and preparation went into these works. Celdrán's sculptures remind me a little of the iconic Pop Art sculptures by the legendary Claes Oldenburg, famous for his near building sized clothes peg, half eaten apple, cutlery, shuttlecock, garden trowel, binoculars and many more.

Although the scale might not be as grandiose in proportion, I really think the level of detail Celdrán works towards raises the benchmark, and the choices of objects to super size are most definitely more of a challenge. Take the empty paint tube for example, everything from the creases to the crimped edging to the dried paint around the cap really brings the piece alive. Almost as if we're truly living in a land of giants, and stumbling along in their wake of detritus.

Here's what the artist has to say:-

"The concepts of Zoom and Macro give the object new dimensions, strengthening its presence and inviting us to explore it, discovering hidden spaces and unnoticed nooks. They break down the physical laws that govern our logic as observers and place us before a growing world, with the same consequences that we would see as Shrinking Men walking through a reality made up of objects whose unsuitable size renders them functionally useless, existing on a scale that is no longer human. [...]."