Telephone Sheep
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Created by Jean Luc Cornec - Frankfurt Museum of Communications
Complete with one black sheep.
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Created by Jean Luc Cornec - Frankfurt Museum of Communications
Complete with one black sheep.Art made out of odd things is definitely my favorite kind of art. Visiting the Extreme Materials exhibit at the Memorial Art Gallery on my birthday in 2006 was a huge turning point artistically for me. I'm not inspired to do that kind of work, yet one of my great joys in the paper art I make is finding unexpected ways to use my paper punches. Using a heart punch for the outside edge of a piece is still one of my favorites. I turn it bumps-out for a scalloped edge or points-out for a spiky edge. I guess that type of thing is my version of "extreme art".
Until I Googled 'extreme materials art' just now to get the date of the exhibit, I forgot about this piece by Devorah Sperber. It's spools of thread hung on vinyl tubing. Interesting enough, but when you look at it through the acrylic sphere, you see it's actually a scene. Seriously, check out some of her other art at her site. She has a vinyl shower curtain with 60,000 tiny flower stickers applied in a way that the shower curtain becomes a VW bus. She has map tacks stuck through clear vinyl in a way that it looks like a fabric bandanna, for instance. (Yes, her work is partially funded by the companies that make these components: Coats & Clark Thread and Moore Push Pin Company for example.) Wow, she's really great!
The 2 museums we visited on vacation this year fell in this same odd art materials category. At the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, we saw a very large ship made of toothpicks. At the Contemporary Art Center in Virginia Beach, we saw purses made from seat belts.
I love this stuff!
Until I Googled 'extreme materials art' just now to get the date of the exhibit, I forgot about this piece by Devorah Sperber. It's spools of thread hung on vinyl tubing. Interesting enough, but when you look at it through the acrylic sphere, you see it's actually a scene. Seriously, check out some of her other art at her site. She has a vinyl shower curtain with 60,000 tiny flower stickers applied in a way that the shower curtain becomes a VW bus. She has map tacks stuck through clear vinyl in a way that it looks like a fabric bandanna, for instance. (Yes, her work is partially funded by the companies that make these components: Coats & Clark Thread and Moore Push Pin Company for example.) Wow, she's really great!The 2 museums we visited on vacation this year fell in this same odd art materials category. At the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, we saw a very large ship made of toothpicks. At the Contemporary Art Center in Virginia Beach, we saw purses made from seat belts.
I love this stuff!
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Labels: Fun Stuff I Found Online
posted by Stefani at 5:18 AM
5 Comments:
Oh, so that's what they do with all those old dial phones!! I suppose that is called "artistic recyclying".
I love the bodies of the sheep, but I find the telephone heads to be a bit disturbing. :0
I got the sheep in an email, without the black sheep, but no information whatsoever where the origin listed.
How did you find it?
Oh, I sent her the email, and she did more research and found the rest, including the black sheep (nice touch, Stefani!).
Yes, I should definitely have given Sunshyn credit for emailing me those photos! She always sends me cool stuff she knows I'll like.
Bonnie, I Googled "telephone sheep" and got a bunch of hits. I even poked around the German museum site but there was only one picture that I could find, but maybe I didn't look hard enough, not being fluent in German. (And I didn't want to take the time to use one of the free online translators.)
One of the hits brought up several Flickr sites, which is where I borrowed the black sheep photo from. Shoot - I always email the Flickr user when I do that but I forgot this morning. I'll do that now.
I think these are so cool! I especially love the feet.
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