The Concretely: new artists

Alfredo Mele (United States)

2022-09-25T12:00:00Z

Born in Caracas - Venezuela in the year of 1979. Industrial designer and visual artist specialized in structural design, art production, sculpture and photography with extensive experience of more than 20 years.

Işıl Kapu (Turkey)

2022-08-14T12:00:00Z

Kapu focuses on social pressures, the vulnerability of the individuals and the constraints on the body by the authority, and the psychological effects of these. She constructs them by searching for the opposite formal elements such as mass and line, space and fullness, part and whole relations.

Carola Eggeling (Germany)

2022-08-13T12:00:00Z

The three-dimensionality of the objects offers the viewer the opportunity to rediscover and interpret them again and again. It is a particularly surprising characteristic of the sculptures that they always give a different picture from the hundreds of vantage points that the viewer can take.

Robin Tarbet (United Kingdom)

2022-07-31T12:00:00Z

Robin Tarbet's practice is concerned with the physical materiality of everyday technology. Robin assumes the role of a folk science explorer, which leads him to dismantle, dissect, and distort everyday technologies and appliances. His work combines two–dimensional media, photography, printmaking and live film with three-dimensional sculptural assemblages.

Thomas Sayre (United States)

2022-07-24T12:00:00Z

Earthcasting is a process developed by the American artist Thomas Sayre. Very large shapes are dug from the earth and filled with concrete mixed with iron oxide, along with structural supports. When the concrete cures, it is pulled up from the earth and permanently set in place. Earthcastings are often monumental in scale.

Ivan Higgins (Canada)

2022-07-24T12:00:00Z

Nova Scotia artist Ivan Higgins’ simply magical and undoubtedly unique concrete creations will not only grab your eye but will capture your soul. Many of Ivan’s creations have found a home scattered throughout the Cosby’s property or at his Sculpture Garden (at the rear of the Garden Centre).

Anne-Sophie Falconer (Canada)

2022-07-24T12:00:00Z

Anne-Sophie Falconer is a figurative sculptor with the human soul as her main focus. She draws inspiration from our fragility as human beings, starting with her own. Highlighting what we try so hard to hide from one another is what she is interested in revealing in her works. Winterstone (cement) is her medium of choice, and she is self-taught.

ABSID (Sweden)

2022-07-24T12:00:00Z

ABSID is the sculptural output of Stockholm based artists and architects Maximilian Olsson and André Prusic. Their work combines the use of digital design and manufacturing techniques with traditional crafts to create sculptures that bridge the gap between the physical and the digital world.

Sherri Warner Hunter (United States)

2022-07-10T12:00:00Z

Artist, Sculptor, Teacher, Facilitator, Author, Tile Manipulator, and big fan of Concrete! Hunter has authored two books on concrete and teaches workshops throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her installation at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alta, California was selected as one of 2019 CODAawards Top 100.

Ciro Duclos (Netherlands)

2022-07-10T12:00:00Z

Duclos often prefers to work with ordinary objects, turning the mundane into the sublime. Some of his other installations have included a set of seven hand-painted concrete work gloves, collections of glass transportation pallets and a series of mostly concrete pillars, amalgamations of repurposed scraps from around his studio.

Carlos H. Matos (Mexico)

2022-07-02T12:00:00Z

By using the tools and methods of both architecture and sculpture, Matos deliberately places himself at an ambiguous point between the two disciplines. He strips what could be architectural elements off most of their context, inviting its purpose and meaning to become re-evaluated. Matos and Lucas Cantú formed Tezontle, a collaborative project, in 2015.

Renato Nicolodi (Belgium)

2022-06-19T12:00:00Z

The buildings he makes are of an unprecedented sobriety. We see war bunkers, mausoleums, atria, temples, racecourses and buildings that refer to the megalomaniac Nazi architecture of Speer. The corresponding color range is of course limited and, fully in accordance with the subject, only covers the shades and shades of concrete.

Marit Wolters (Austria)

2022-06-19T12:00:00Z

Marit’s methodology can be considered as genealogic postproduction, given that by tracing the history of the materials, even when appropriated, they are meant to be transformed and taken into a narrative that prolongs them in time, space and presence. This continuum of site and material’s history is projected and takes Marit's formal aesthetic ideal.

Hanneke van Rijnsoever (Netherlands)

2022-06-19T12:00:00Z

Recently, I came into contact with concrete as an art form through a two-day 'concrete art class' with artist Marlies Hoevers and I was sold. The rough and unpolished of concrete versus the soft and cuddly of felt… an interesting combination that works surprisingly well in the small concrete works that result.

Valerie Billet (France)

2022-06-11T12:00:00Z

Sculpture allows me a more intimate, abstract, resolutely experimental approach. Detoured materials offer me fields of expression through their characteristics.

Tamara Sekulić (Croatia)

2022-06-11T12:00:00Z

Sekulić's works emphasize the relationship between concrete, which is characterized by coldness, roughness and rawness, and the world of plants, which are attributed conflicting properties such as visual warmth, fragility, softness and naturalness.

Natalia Drachinskaya (United Arab Emirates)

2022-06-11T12:00:00Z

I lived in Moscow till 2021, now I’m located in Dubai. I explore the specific of remembrance transformation in context of human perception of past and now and the memory of spaces. Also I look into the process of reciprocity with environment using situationists practices and principles of object-oriented ontology.

Nan Martin (United States)

2022-06-11T12:00:00Z

Nan Martin is a contemporary sculptor who lives in Texas. Born in Colorado, she grew up in the 1950s Hollywood and 1960s San Francisco in a French-speaking household. She is known for her gestural, figurative wire forms, which refer to life’s fragility and complexity.

Birgit Feil (Germany)

2022-06-11T12:00:00Z

The fact that Birgit Feil works with concrete and plastic and does not hide the material she uses, but – on the contrary – sees it as an elementary part of her work, may be confusing at first. However, anyone standing face to face with the sculptures is immediately captivated by their peculiar presence in the here and now.

Elizabeth Jobim (Brazil)

2022-06-09T12:00:00Z

Jobim has built her practice on relationships between color—signally, ultramarine blue—and the sensitive geometry of shape. Abstractions prompted by arrangements of stones, her early paintings meditate on materiality and volume, their lithic forms at once permeable and solid, linear and multidimensional.

Crystal Gregory (United States)

2022-06-08T12:00:00Z

My work uses cloth construction as a fundamental center, a place to start from and move back to. With a background in weaving, I see myself as a builder. I find a wonderful tension between building materials like concrete, metal, drywall or glass and the structural patterns of cloth.

Olivia Ines Bonilla (United States)

2022-06-07T12:00:00Z

Creating a world where color theory meets sculpture. My work explores personal nostalgia and indulgence through references to sweets, toy culture, and 80’s and 90’s retro flare. I’m interested in the idea of excess in today’s throwaway society. Using mediums such as sculpture and painting, I convey a “sugar coated” reality filled with overstimulation.

Ramazan Can (Turkey)

2022-06-05T12:00:00Z

Today, there is no place for nomads neither on earth nor in the skies. In order to convey this reality to the audience, Ramazan Can reflects his memories in his works, which serve as a bridge between the past and the present.

Ruth Hardinger (United States)

2022-06-04T12:00:00Z

Often, these concrete and cardboard constructs are installed as a sequence of presences – a storied journey with many participants. There’s a backstory of adjectives creating puns with their names: “concrete” is a solid fact, and “cardboard” is a material without substance.

Jeni Snell (United Kingdom)

2022-06-03T12:00:00Z

My paintings, sculpture and collages depict bunkers or and munitions within a mocking narrative of resistance. My sculptures as well pay homage to Guernsey’s WWII heritage as I often work with cast-concrete methodology which references how the bunkers were built. These playfully phallic projectiles reference gender issues as much they do weaponry.

Valgerður Sigurðardóttir (Belgium)

2022-06-02T12:00:00Z

Born in Reykjavik, Iceland. Lives and works in Antwerpen, Belgium.

Irfan Önürmen (Turkey)

2022-06-01T12:00:00Z

His work reveals the relationships and discrepancies between personal and public experience as seen through the lens of contemporary media. Önürmen addresses the impact of mass media on human experience and its visual representation through collage, painting, and sculpture.

June Crespo (Spain)

2022-05-31T12:00:00Z

In her pieces, Crespo uses sculpture to create a language that evokes the body and its relationship to architecture. Holes, passages, limits, circulation and remainders are some of the terms often heard to refer to the artist´s production. Her sculptures and images are based on precarious materials, an economy of means and on the importance of being by doing.

Socascetica (United States)

2022-05-30T12:00:00Z

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, works & lives in Portland, Oregon. He finds art as a complex of things. melancholy as an edge living, lostness and self doubt. post-irony as a way to point out flaws and social asceticism as a principle of focus on simple needs originated ages ago.

Hugo Berolsky (South Africa)

2022-05-30T12:00:00Z

Hugo Berolsky is a ceramicist and sculptor from Cape Town, South Africa. Born in Johannesburg.