Category — art

South Africa-based artist Wim Botha sees books slightly different than most of us do. He creates haunting sculptures made from stacks of hardback books, literally carving out characters from the pages. Most recently his works were on exhibition at the Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town.

Anna-Wili Highfield is a Sydney based artist currently making sculptures of animals from paper and from copper pipe. Her paper sculptures are created from archival cotton paper, that is painted, sewn together to create the figure of an animal. The copper pipe is bent and manipulated to create sculptural forms reminiscent of line drawings.

She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Arts School, Sydney NSW and she has worked for Opera Australia as a scenic artist for several years. Her commercial clients include Anthropologie and Hermes (who commissioned several paper horses, one is pictured below). However, Anna-Wili’s pieces have predominantly been commissioned by private clients, both within Australia and around the world.

Her sculptures have appeared in publications in The UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Hungary, Russia , Israel, Turkey, South Africa, Mexico, Argentina, The USA, Korea, China, and Australia.

Carlo Giovani is a visual artist living in São Paulo, Brazil. He recently created the cover design for the new brazilian edition of Journey to the Center of the Earth (pictured above). He also creates some pretty awesome paper sculptures (pictured below). Can you believe the nature scene below is made entirely out of paper? Pretty cool!

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Designer Pete Fecteau has taken the love for Rubix Cubes to a whole new level. Back in April 2011, he created a mosaic titled “Dream Big” of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. using 4,242 officially licensed Rubik’s Cubes. It measures 19′ x 8’6″ x 2.25″ and it weighs roughly 1000 pounds.

Each cube has been “reversed solved” or twisted so that one of the faces maps it’s nine stickers into the total image, 38,178 stickers total. The construction process took a little over 40 hours and the final installation to about five and a half hours with 6 volunteers helping. And here we were thinking how hard it was to solve just one Rubix Cube, when Peter has solved an entire installation using them!