Eyal Gever

Many of Eyal Gever's works are sculptures made from tridimensional simulations using physics, collisions, liquids.. it's really interesting to see those simulations to know where the sculptures come from.

Eyal Gever says; "I create sculptures based on sublime moments. These are moments that fill a person with amazement, awe, terror, astonishment, and silence. They are also moments of pure beauty.

Using my own proprietary 3D physical simulation technologies, I have developed computational models for physical simulation, computer animation, and geometric modeling. Combining applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering, my work captures and freezes catastrophic situations as cathartic experiences.

My ongoing body of works examines the relationship between the simulated events and their physical manifestation."  See more;

Levitation 2011/2012 

Mixed media, 200 x 200cm

Collisions | Truck vs Truck 2011/2012

 Mixed media 14 x 60 x 10 cm

Bus vs Wall 2011/2012

Mixed media 35 x 30 x 85 cm

Splash-Pillar 

Mixed media 24 x 80 x 45 cm

Massive-Tsunami-Crashing 

Mixed media 15 x 36 x 44 cm

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thanks for the tip Dora Moutot

Sensual Objects by Chris Timms

While ago I published one GIF by Chris Timms I found on tumblr, this one. I was mesmerized about the flow, colors and forms. Then I started to follow his work through his tumblr called sensualobjects.tumblr.com where he only publish work made by him, it is a world full of organic objects who live and move according to the rhythm of the internet. 

One week ago Chris has just launched a new visual work, a 01.55 min video piece which follows the same aesthetics of that previously named GIF. See more;

Chris Timms tells us more about this piece_

"I was experimenting making these quite sexualised and stylised gif's, and the ones that stood out for me always had this kind of submerged sensual quality, beyond the intented aesthetic ascribed to their surface. Practically, Tumblr's size restrictions quickly pushed me on to make a video, but I became really interested in the way video is still the primary form of distribution for trailers or introductions to bigger projects, in that they are the primary (and often only) encounter with the work. So I worked somewhat backwards, presenting this as a completely self-contained promo."  

Sensual Object is being part of the great monthly exhibition called Astral Projection Abduction Fantasy curated by Standard Features at Monster Truck Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. The screening dates: 23 February – 22 March 2012; 5pm-12pm daily. I highly recommend to attend, see more info here.

Jim Hodges at Gladstone Gallery

"Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Jim Hodges, which will be mounted across both gallery spaces in Chelsea and marks the artist’s first project at the gallery’s New York locations. For over two decades, Hodges has employed a broad range of everyday and precious materials to create works that transform the quotidian object into a site where the personal, political, and universal merge through simple gesture and poetic command. Taking up varied modes of process and production, Hodges' practice resists the definitional aims of discourse, instead offering multilayered works that evoke resonant themes such as identity, loss, mortality, and love." See more

"In this two-part exhibition, Hodges presents several new large-scale sculptural works that investigate notions of time, movement, color, and reflection. Furthering his frequent use of manipulated mirrored elements, Hodges will exhibit his largest black-mirrored sculpture to date, creating a contemplative yet fractured zone for reflection and refraction. A room-sized installation, inspired by the artist’s recent trip to India, demonstrates a heightened focus on color, saturation, and performance. Merging the real with the imagined, a monumental grouping of sculptures seamlessly juxtaposes dense organic forms with interventions of synthetic beauty. Moving between disparate media and contrasting forms, Hodges embeds each with a charged sense of its own making and a multitude of metaphoric possibilities.

Jim Hodges was born in 1957 in Spokane, Washington and received his MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including: the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Camden Art Centre, London; the Aspen Art Museum; CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Hodges was recently appointed to serve as the Acting Director of the Graduate Sculpture Department at the Yale University School of Art for the 2011/2012 academic year."

515 West 24th Street | 530 West 21st Street, NY

November 5 through December 23, 2011

Sensual Objects

Awesome GIF. Love its organic forms and flow as well as its soft colors and the glossy effect. I don't know who is behind of Sensual Objects but I'm quite sure it is a tumblr-portfolio. See more at sensualobjects.tumblr.com

UPDATE: The author of this GIF and all work at sensualobjects.tumblr.com is Chris Timms who will launch his own personal website next thursday 10th at chriscotimms.com