The only blog about animals (taxidermied), ice cream, illustrations, creepiness, Oprah Winfrey, and Mary-Kate Olsen. I have a pretty broad spectrum of interests, but there are very specific themes that string together what appeals to me, creatively. Real things that look fake. Fake things that look real. Real fake things. Fake real things. Whimsy.
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Walter Potter (1835-1918) brought whimsy to taxidermy by anthropomorphizing his subjects in everyday (human) activities.
A bizarre collection of stuffed animals that was broken up and sold around the world seven years ago has been reassembled for a one-off exhibition. The eccentric works of Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter, in which stuffed animals mimic human life, were sold for more than £500,000 in 2003.
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Shauna Richardson UK based Crochetdermy artist specialising in life-size animal sculpture in wool. ‘She uses crochet to sculpt realistic life-size animals - uncanny taxidermy-like forms. Crochetdermy combines themes such as objects, collecting, craft and realism and experiments with accessibility and audience.’
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“Interiors,” by Ana Elisa Egreja. A series of oil paintings featuring animals living in domestic spaces.
Steven Tabbutt. There is a quietness about these works that I really like. It draws me in and makes me feel like I’m part of its environment. Can’t explain.
Doug Pedersen creates this collection solely out of materials from the dollar store. Plastic animal figurines and melted crayons.
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Attraction by Renaud Marion
– the fear of missing out on something amazing is just too devastating to contemplate. French photographer Renaud Marion has played with that idea, taking photographs of street performers and replacing the men and women wowing the crowds with zoo animals. The extraordinary urban interlopers include a rhino, giraffes and a bear, and question the way in which modern society views the natural world.
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Thomas Grünfeld’s anomalous creations are some of the strangest and most surreal of contemporary taxidermy. The creatures from his appropriately titled Misfit series are composed of bits and pieces of animals, all flawlessly sewn together to create entirely new species: a doberman pincher with a calf’s head, a beast combining monkey and parrot, another creature, part mule, part giraffe, part ostrich.
“Landscapes,” a conceptually brilliant interactive installation by Jennifer Rubell. Sculptures as paintings, garden gnome beer taps, a pretzel tree, and blank canvases that pour wine.
Landscapes is a series of interactive works which each explores a different facet of the way we engage the natural world: contemplation, domination, fantasy, imitation, and depiction.
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Peter Gronquist’s exhibition “The Evolution Will Be Fabulous.” Animals with horns/antlers of weapons and fashion label logos.
Pekka Jylha is a versatile sculptor, best known for his monumental work for President Urho Kekkonen in Helsinki. Much of his work consists of a series of sculptures made of unconventional materials and subjects – pigs or rabbits, mechanical or electric devices and candles – that lend a touch of humor to his work. He also utilizes traditional materials and elements from natural phenomena, such as light, water, and fire to explore and defy laws of nature. Yet his works, however voluminous they are, rarely leave a too-heavy impression. ‘ (via Volta)
Carsten Höller’s bright near-neon animal sculptures. Yellow rhinoceros made of polyvinyl, polyurethane foam and polyester resin, glass eyes, and horns.
Chen Wenling is recognized as one of the top ten contemporary sculptors in China today. He was born in 1969 in Anxi, Fujian China. He studied at the Xiamen Academy of Art and Design, and at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
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