Photo Sculptures
Oliver Herring’s figuratively and creatively, life-size portrait sculptures sheathed in bits cut from thousands of separate photographs. It is fascinating to observe the ways he translates the human figures all along his carrier(watch him working)
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WADE 2006 digital c-print photographs, museum board, foam core, and polystyrene with vitrine 68 x 22 1/2 x 15 inches
GLORIA 2004 digital c-print photographs, museum board, foam core, and polystyrene 72 x 40 x 40 inches with vitrine
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very cool. thanks for the post
Don't you know Gwon Osang too ?
http://www.brindilles.net/gwon-osang/
hey this looks really cool!
kinda seems like their skin was burned and transplanted..
Oliver Herring's work is fantastic. It's conplex and highly unusual. It is also only one of his outlets. I have seen some of his previous work (knit mylar sculpture), as well as videos and performances (most recently TASK, which was performed at the Hirshhorn in DC). It seems to me that any medium serves Herring as a means to a larger end. It is never the end itself.
That other guys' work, by comparison, is a simplistic, badly executed one liner.
Being familiar with both Herring's and Gwon's work, I have serious questions about the uncomfortable similarity between their photo collage sculptures. It's an established fact that Gwon's work precedes Herring's by several years, and, given Herring's previous work, which differs in so many fundamental ways from these photo collage sculptures, it's not inconceivable that there are some unacknowledged influences (from Gwon to Herring) at work here. Just because one artist is better known and operates from the advantageous position of working and showing in centers of Western art production and discourse does not automatically negate this possibility. Indeed, art history shows that Western artists have routinely "appropriated," often unacknowledged, from "lesser" cultures. Could this be yet another example in that long, infamous tradition?
For details on the Gwon-Herring controversy:
http://www.artdish.com/ubbcgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=000228
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