Optical illusions are a complex but extremely popular art genre. Today we will tell you about 10 famous authors whose portfolio has more than one masterpiece created in this genre.
10. Daniel Arsham
This American is a versatile person: he is an artist, a sculptor, an architect, a designer, a set designer, a photographer, and he alone knows who else. Whatever he undertakes, in every field he manages to achieve recognition, which confirms many awards and prizes in the field of art. He also has a popular Instagram account through which he constantly replenishes the army of his fans. He actively organizes exhibitions around the world, including in Russia: with us he was exhibited in the pavilions of VDNH.
9. Neil Dawson
Neil Dawson is an outstanding New Zealand sculptor. His most famous works are large-scale civilian objects made of aluminum and stainless steel, often made using a lattice of natural shapes that form a geometric whole between them. The most famous are the "Chalice" - a large inverted cone on Cathedral Square in Christchurch, and the "Ferns": a sphere of iron leaves of the same name plant, which is suspended above Wellington Civil Square.
Dawson's small works often use illusion and optical patterns such as moire to achieve their effects. Many of these works are wall-mounted carpets, although there are also separate items among them that use everyday objects with patterns such as playing card shapes and willow-shaped utensils.
8. Gilvinas Kempinas
One of the most famous Lithuanian artists lives in New York, although exhibitions with his works are held around the world. Unlike most modern pop art artists, Kempinas does not tie the theme of his work to the current political situation in the world and does not focus on acute social problems. His work is completely abstract, so it will be clear to any person.
7. Kumi Yamashita
Yamashita holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Seattle, Washington. The artist is best known for her sculptures of light and shadow, built from household items. Kumi first starts taking pictures of real models in order to begin to understand the various poses with which she works. The next steps in her work are to sketch out the composition and develop a sense of space, since placement is an integral part of each work. According to some critics, she expresses the importance of manipulating the shadow and outline better than anyone else.
6. Dan Graham
Graham grew up in New Jersey, but eventually decided to move to a larger city, ending up in New York. There, in 1964, he began managing the John Daniels Gallery, where he hosted the first solo show, Saul LeWitt, and in group exhibitions were the works of Donald Judd, Dara Birnbaum, Dan Flavin and Robert Smithson. Like these artists, Graham considered himself a writer and artist, publishing essays and reviews of rock music, paintings by Dwight D. Eisenhower and a television show by Dean Martin. His work often focuses on cultural phenomena and includes photography, video, performance, glass and mirror designs.
5. Felice Varini
Artist of Swiss descent from Paris, nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Award 2000/2001. According to the professor of mathematics and art critic Joel Koskas, known for his geometric perspective paintings that use screen projection techniques: “Varini's work is anti-Mona Lisa. Felice draws on architectural and urban spaces, such as buildings, walls and streets. ” And indeed, the whole castles serve as a canvas for the artist, such as her work in Carcassonne.
4. Liu Bolin
Another artist of Asian descent in our top is from Shandong province, where he received his bachelor's degree at a local college of art in 1995. He did not finish this study, and after 6 years he became a master at the Beijing Central Academy. His works have been exhibited at different times in dozens of countries, the most famous of them being the series “Hide in the City” and photographic works that began as a performance in 2005, when India emerged from the wreckage of the cultural revolution and began to experience rapid economic growth and relative political stability .
3. Gavin Worth
This person creates simply incredible things using ordinary wire. In his works, religious motives, historical references, and simply abstractions are traced, the significance of which everyone determines for himself. Some of his sculptures were created specifically for display in rooms where they are complemented by the play of light and shadow, and some can be observed in all its glory even in the open air.
2. Fred Airdeckens
Fred Erdekens lives and works in Hasselt, Belgium. He studied sculpture and graphics at the Provincial Higher Institute of Art and Architecture in Hasselt and was a professor at PHL (now: Academy of MAD) in Hasselt and HISK in Antwerp. His career was interrupted for almost four years due to a serious car accident in 2006, but fortunately he managed to recover and return to work with new forces and ideas. The basis of his work is composed of texts that he writes himself. It often gives rise to opposite concepts, sometimes words contradict each other and mean shifts and turns. Unusual, attractive and beautiful - each of the epithets is justly applicable to Erdekens.
1. Heike Weber
For this German artist, the walls, floor and ceiling became canvas. She did not limit her work to some kind of framework and began to paint entire rooms, creating amazing installations. At first glance, some of them seem pointless, but you just have to take a closer look, look around the whole picture, and then understanding comes.