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#Alex Chinneck
#humor
#set up
#public artwork
#sculpture
All photos © Alex Chinneck, shared with permission
Alex Chinneck has the world tied in knots as he distorts on a regular basis instruments and infrastructure. Twisting and twining phone cubicles, hammers, and lamp posts, the British artist (beforehand) warps frequent objects to exaggerated proportions, rendering every virtually totally unusable. Mop handles kind good bows, a brush constricts so tightly round a canister that blue paint spills out, and a shiny pink fireplace extinguisher seems choked for air. Chinneck’s interventions are boldly weird and communicate to the extraordinary potential of humble objects.
This summer time, the artist will set up the knotted lamp posts under as a part of a everlasting work in Bristol, together with a spectacular boat enterprise a gravity-defying loop-the-loop for the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal. Control these tasks and discover his latest kinetic sculptures for Hérmes’s Hong Kong retailer on Instagram.
#Alex Chinneck
#humor
#set up
#public artwork
#sculpture
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