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Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo, aka Bordalo II, uses mixed media to create his own interpretations of the urban landscape and environment. He often composes his works using various found items that he merges together into beautiful forms. In that sense, his street art is unique because it appears slightly three-dimensional and is presented in surprisingly tactile formations. Recently, Bordalo II created Owl Eyes, a collaged owl composed of found trash and recycled materials. The piece towers high over pedestrians in a rusty compilation of metal, tires, and paint. (source).

 

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Installation artist Laurent Gongora’s Les Cascadeurs “redraws” the shape of a waterfall in France’s mountainous Massif Central region. To do this, he attached 24 geometric metal elements to the rock behind the Cascade de Vaucoux that together forms an eight-meter-high diamond that diverts the torrent. The project features horizontal bars beneath each peak that were designed for adventurous wildlife to have some respite from the falling water. “There is a small wooden perch under each roof, in case a ‘stunt bird’ would like to come and shelter,” Gongora explained. (source).

 

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Nunzio Paci is an artist based in Bologna, Italy. His gorgeous, multifaceted drawings depict the human body combined with nature and animals. Pen, pencil, and a little bit of color are used to craft these intricate images that mix ink drips with fine, precise renderings. The anatomical artworks give us a look inside the lungs and torso. There are vein-like structures that have the appearance of tree branches, and from it they meander into a fully-formed forest. There’s a surrealistic quality to Paci’s drawings, and the artist wants to push the boundaries of this subject matter. He explains, “my intention is to explore the infinite possibilities of life, in search of a balance between reality and imagination.” (source).

 

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Sarah Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials with surprising significance. Combining domestic detritus and office supplies into fantastical miniatures, she builds her works, fractal-like, on an architectural scale. Often incorporating electric lights and fans, water systems, and houseplants, Sze’s installations balance whimsy with ecological themes of interconnectivity and sustainability. (source, source).

 

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Hilla Shamia, an Israeli artist and designer, burns molten aluminum on the surface of raw wood to create beautiful furniture. The heat sears a beautiful black layer of carbon that creates a boundary between the cold silvery color of the aluminum and the wood’s beautiful natural colors and forms. The negative factor of burnt wood is transformed into aesthetic and emotional value by preservation of the natural form of the tree trunk, within explicit boundaries. The general, squared form intensifies the artificial feeling, and at the same time keeps the memory of the material. (source, source).

 

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Richard Long is a British land artist. His formative piece A Line Made By Walking, was made in a field in Wiltshire where he walked backwards and forwards until the flattened turf caught the sunlight and became visible as a line. He photographed this work, and recorded his physical interventions within the landscape.

South Bank Circle brings together unevenly shaped pieces of slate in the geometric structure of a circle, and illustrates a theme common in Long’s work: the relationship between man and nature. As he has explained, ‘you could say that my work is … a balance between the patterns of nature and the formalism of human, abstract ideas like lines and circles. It is where my human characteristics meet the natural forces and patterns of the world, and that is really the kind of subject of my work’ (source).

 

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Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen creates incredible installations from the demolition found in abandoned houses. Using architectural debris from a building’s rooms, she transforms the spaces into spectacular sculptural works by meticulously layering the collected fragments into aesthetically-pleasing arrangements. The series, titled Destroyed Houses, highlights Teeuwen’s ability to turn destruction and neglect into something beautiful. The Tetris-like placement creates order among chaos and gives the works a monumental, awe-inspiring presence coupled with a feeling of tranquility. (source).

 

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Soheyl Bastami is an Iranian sculptor who creates work out of everything from sand to iron and wood. One of his more recent pieces, Extreme, is a combination of complex gears entwined into one simple and meditative form. Viewers are immediately invited to contemplate the relationship between the soft, slouching human figure, perched precariously on the top edge, as it relates to the hard, rigid materials of the machine. By creating the strong juxtaposition between the human and the unique arrangement that supports the figure, Bastami has constructed a poetic commentary on how the modern world has become quite reliant upon machines.

His large sculpture, Shepherd sits on the Modarres Highway in Tehran, contrasting rural and urban lifestyle (source).

 

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Yusuke Asai, a Japanese artist who paints with basically anything he can get his hands on (tape, pens, leaves, dust and mud…), was asked to travel to the Niranjana School in Bihar (east India) to create a mural on the walls of a classroom. Asai unveiled a sprawling, immersive mural titled “Earth Painting; The Forest of Vows.” To create the piece, Asai sourced only locally available materials which included 7 different types of soil, cow dung, water and straw (source).

 

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Mitsuru Koga is an artist who emulates nature. Working with leaves, rocks, and driftwood, he adapts his methods for each medium. DriftWood (2007) brought Koga back to the beach, where he imagined the excavation of fossils from an imaginary time—a prehistoric era when the earth was ruled by the imagined Branchasaurus, Stormasaurus, and Driftwood dinosaur. “I wish to create an intermediate bridge between nature and human beings,” the artist explains. Sea Stone (2008) is a collection of tiny vases, carved and polished from collected pebbles. The artist found inspiration on a beach in Chigasaki, Japan, where he was born. “As the way the waves abrade stones, I scrape them with careful attention.” (source).

  

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