Found things

The colliding worlds of Hugo Barros

Collage artist Hugo Barros challenges the limits of reality with his artworks centred around an often surreal collision of vastly different worlds.

Inspired by modern art movements like Constructivism, Futurism, as well as post-1968 architecture, Barros creates his otherworldly and apocalyptic scenes evocative of that heady post-1968 period of architectural exploration.

Some of these collages feature floating surfaces of a giant scale, recalling Superstudio’s Earth-devouring Continuous Monument. Others superbly juxtapose disaster and architectural stability, challenging structural equilibrium and suggesting kinetic building.

Angular forms strike off obliquely from the viewer, plunging into cities or blocking out the moon. Here, the artist seems to be introducing the type of dynamic composition often seen in the work of the Constructivists or the Futurists. This is the type of art that makes us all wish we were as talented.

You can see loads more on Hugo Barros’s tumblr.

Chewing in Venice

Eww!

Luxembourg based artist Simone Decker created a provocative art installation of small-scale bubble gum wads positioned throughout Venice, photographing them to appear as large sculptural works. The collection, called “Chewing in Venice 1 & 2″, was created in 1999.

You can see more of Decker’s work on her site.

Les Souffleurs - Commandos Poétiques

Part performance, part staged intervention, and Described as “an endeavour to slow down the world”, the blowers whisper poetry, philosophy and inspiring words from great literary works to people through their long tubes, called rossignols (meaning nightingales).

Love it.

Things Come Apart

For his latest project photographer Todd McLellan takes apart all sorts of gadgets to shoot the gears, cogs and springs that make up their innards. Aptly titled Things Come Apart, the project presents both a neatly laid out anatomical dissection of the objects as well as “action” shots of those devices seemingly in motion, mid explosion.

In an interview for the Smith Journal McLellan was asked if he ever put stuff back together, to which he replied “I think something like the phone would be easy, but the rest of the stuff… I could probably put some of it back together, the typewriter absolutely not. The Camera, not a chance.”

You can see more here.