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Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese
Classic Fine Art given a Fun Geek Makeover
Venkman, geektyrant.comArtsit Hillary White has taken some classic fine art that’s been created over the decades, and has added a little pop culture geekery to them. Some of the art is just re-interpretations of other films and characters. White has created s…
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“I always know where I am by the way that the road looks. Like, I just know that I’ve been here before. I just know that I’ve been stuck here, like this one fucking time before, you know that? Yeah. There’s not another road anywhere that looks like this road - I mean, exactly like this road. It’s one kind of place. One of a kind. Like someone’s face. Like a fucked up face.”
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Forever A Loner. I told some people I’d do more metroid art. Happy Friday!
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.
Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms.
“My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception,” he says.
“The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time. The book’s intended function has decreased and the form remains linear in a non-linear world. By altering physical forms of information and shifting preconceived functions, new and unexpected roles emerge.”