Skeletons

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Tim Hawkinson Penitent (1994)
‘Penitent is a sculpture of a small human skeleton made out of rawhide dog chews. The figure’s ribcage contains a motorized device, which blows a slide-whistle, giving the impression it is calling for a dog. Kneeling on the floor in a position of supplication, the skeleton seems to be beckoning for its own demise in the form of a dog, which will tear it apart.’

 

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Ron Mueck Mass (2017)
‘Australian artist Ron Mueck has unveiled his largest installation ever with Mass, a collection of 100 monumental hand-cast skulls. The imposing and ominous skulls pour through the galleries, each skull artfully placed into a tumbling mass like a glacier inching across a landscape.’

 

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X-Ray Audio Bone Music (2016)
‘Bone Music, an exhibition currently on show at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, examines the phenomenon of Soviet music bootlegging, a period in which music lovers used x-ray films to record and distribute music, unavailable in the country at the time.’

 

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Urs Fischer Undigested Sunset (2001-2002)
Cast aluminum, wax, wood, acrylic paint, pigments, fabric, silicone, wood glue, screws

 

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Caspar Berger Various (2012-2013)
Dutch artist Caspar Berger is using his own skeleton to create a new series of sculptures.

Skeleton (2012)

Sanctity (2013)

ATTRACTION / SELF-PORTRAIT 30 (2014) Watch an excerpt here

 

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Subodh Gupta Very Hungry God (2006)
‘Sometimes dubbed India’s Damien Hirst, Subodh Gupta is one of India’s leading contemporary artists, who creates mainly large-scale sculptures and installations (from stainless steel Indian kitchenware and other found objects) that address the country’s changing social landscape. Arranging traditional utensils, pots, and pans according to a Minimalist aesthetic, Gupta approaches readymade items with Duchampian irony, while also offering social commentary.’

 

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Casey Weldon Kids Will be Skeletons (2010)

 

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Francois Robert Stop the Violence (2010)
‘Francois Robert spent hundreds of hours arranging the real bones of a single human skeleton into a series of striking iconic shapes, each five or six feet wide.’

 

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Tavares Strachan What Will Be Remembered in the Face of All that Is Forgotten (2014)
‘Made between 2014-2015, the five-foot-tall piece includes pulsating neon that mimics the racing of blood through veins, stainless steel to hold the skeleton in place, and a total of seven transformers. The flashing circulatory system is a glowing reminder of English scientist Rosalind Franklin’s contributions to the field of science, mainly the discovery of DNA’s molecular structures.’

 

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Joseph Wesley Moon Watson The Candle 2 (2015)

 

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Alain Séchas Les Papas (1995)
Plastic skeletons, canvases, easels, stools, palettes, brushes, acrylic paint.

 

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Matthew Day Jackson Terminal Velocity (2008)
‘Jackson created a 3D scan of his own skeleton in fibreglass and dropped it from a great height onto an aluminium car hood.’

 

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Shanell Papp Lab (2019)
‘Canadian artist Shanell Papp crochets forms associated with the human figure, notably crocheting a life-size skeleton stuffed with colorful removable organs. The work was created in 2005 from wool yarn, and includes everything from a soft crocheted heart to ten hollow phalanges. After working for four months on the skeleton, and four months on the organs, the final work was displayed on an actual mortuary gurney.’

 

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Paul Hazelton Death Duster (2011)
a cobweb skull made from a duster and glued household dust

 

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Carolein Smit Various (2015)
‘Carolein Smit is an internationally renowned ceramic artist who currently lives in Belgium.’

 

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Ron English Andy Warhol Figment Bust (2010)
‘We got a few of the remaining DCon exclusive Ron English Andy Warhol “FIGMENT” busts. Each measures a whopping 13″ tall, 10″ deep, and 9″ across. Yours for just 220 €.’

 

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Maradita Sutantio (After) The Promised Land (2019)
Using the principles of Ikebana, Maradita Sutantio has arranged skeletons in a mandala-like shape in After the Promised Land. Ikebana — the Japanese art of flower arrangement — is seen by its practitioners as a way to connect the soul with nature.’

 

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David Cerny Tuned Death (2011)
‘A metallic red skull hanging at the end of a horizontal metal crane rotates atop the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art.’

 

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Jason Limon Various (2014-2019)
‘Jason Limon was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1973. He first showed his artistic expression at a fairly young age doodling characters and scenarios inspired by his bustling neighborhood and surroundings. He studied fine arts and graphic design at the Visual Arts & Technology Center at San Antonio College and entered the field of commercial graphic design in 1995 acquiring comprehensive knowledge of type, color and composition. Following twelve years of commitment to producing award winning logos and designs he then turned his focus and concentration to where his heart truly began: developing artwork by hand and brush, no longer by the clicks of a mouse.’

 

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Jan Van Oost Salome (1990)
‘We are talking about the 19th century “Salomé”, the Salomé Oscar Wilde has described so beautiful. A lot of my works are dealing with that well-known fin-de-siècle symptom, the Baudelairean aim of searching for the perfect Beauty and the knowledge of the impossibility to succeed. This creates often a special sentiment, called melancholy. Salomé does not succeed in her queeste (search) to seduce J. the Baptist. La femme fatale, “Salomé”, is a work in massive silver. Silver as a decadent ersatz mirror; surface and symbol; in the interpretation of Pausanias of Narcissus story. Narcissus had a twin sister who died very young. Each time, by looking in the water, he sees the face of his dead sister, finding comfort in melancholy.’

 

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Jenny Holzer Lustmord Table (1994)
‘In 1993, at the invitation of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, the Sunday magazine of one of Germany’s largest daily newspapers, Jenny Holzer created a series titled Lustmord, prompted by the war in former Yugoslavia where sexual violence against women and girls was used as a strategy and weapon. Taking its title from a German word for “sexually motivated murder,” Lustmord treats sexual violence in its ubiquitous manifestations. It represents these acts from the perspectives of perpetrators, victims, and observers.’

 

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Gino de Dominicis Various (1969-2007)

Time, Error, Space (1969)

Calamita Cosmica (2007)

 

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Sherrie Levine Crystal Skull (2010)

 

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TYPOE Confetti Death (2010)

 

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Taiji Taomote Death Eviscerations (2017)
‘Working primarily in plaster, Japanese artist Taiji Taomote produces surreal sculptures inspired by skeletal motifs. Death Viscerations, one of his most unique works of skull art, exhibits both the artist’s wild imagination and his awe-inspiring realist approach.’

 

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Agelio Batle Ash Dancer (2016)
‘On a specially-designed, high-frequency vibrating table planted in the middle of San Francisco’s jack fischer gallery lies a life-sized human skeleton made of solid graphite. Artist Agelio Batle has carefully crafted ‘Ash Dancer’ to rest on a precisely-constructed paper countertop. As this violently-shaking surface rattles, the skeletal artwork leaves behind abstract, illustrated impressions of itself. As a result of the unrelenting vibration, the graphite bones slowly disintegrate in the process and will eventually disappear completely.’

 

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Monika Horčicová Various (2015-2016)
‘Czech artist Monika Horčicová creates complex sculptures using 3D printing technology and polyester resin. The conceptual skeletal structures seem amazingly real, as if these mechanisms would actually have a functional purpose.’

 

 

 

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Morris Costumes Undead Cathy & Fred (2014)

 

 

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