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The Met’s rooftop installation features sculptures inspired by children’s desktop doodles

Apr 30, 2024 By Admin in Sculpture

Petrit Halilaj’s “Abetare” is the latest rooftop commission at The Met, featuring metal sculptures inspired by scribblings found on school desks in Kosovo,

Children and Animals Merge with the Natural World in Willy Verginer’s Whimsical ‘Lost Garden’

Apr 30, 2024 By Admin in Art World News

“Fiore del giardino” (2022), lindenwood and acrylic, 135 x 39 x 35 centimeters. Photos by Egon Dejori. All images © Willy Verginer, shared with permission

Whether deep in slumber or perched on ornamental pedestals, Willy Verginer’s bold, whimsical sculptures (previously) invite us into a surreal dream world. His latest series, The Lost Garden, draws on the paradisiacal notion of Eden and the alpine landscape and animals of the Dolomite Mountains near the artist’s home in northern Italy.

Verginer uses linden, or basswood, to chisel life-size sculptures of birds, bears, and human figures who merge with their natural surroundings. For example, in “Il fiume e la notte,” or “the river and the night,” a child sleeps atop a thicket of branches, simultaneously calm yet balancing precariously on thin supports. And in “Fiore del giardino,” or “garden flower,” a child’s head and shoulders are tightly enveloped with magenta flowers like a cloak.

Like much of Verginer’s work, The Lost Garden draws correlations and contrasts between society’s quickly advancing technologies and the way our reliance on phones or cars further separates us from nature. The artist’s sculptures stand like totems or nostalgic emblems, calling on a desire for a more interconnected world.

Verginer is working toward a solo exhibition at Studio d’Arte Raffaelli in Trento, Italy, this autumn. Find more on his website and Instagram.

Left: “Fra poco arriverà” (2022), lindenwood, acrylic, and aluminum leaf, 76 x 23 x 33 centimeters. Right: “Oceano verde dietro alle spalle” (2023), lindenwood, burned wood, aluminum leaf, 148 x 80 x 74 centimeters

Installation view of ‘The Lost Garden’

“Il fiume e la notte” (2023), different types of wood and acrylic, 55 x 85 x 53 centimeters

“The pink bear” (2022), lindenwood and acrylic, 85 x 225 x 90 centimeters

“Quattro zoccoli in paradiso (blue)” (2023), lindenwood, acrylic, and aluminum leaf, 235 x 150 x 70 centimeters

“Venuto dalle spiagge gelate” (2023), different types of wood, 100 x 78 x 45 centimeters

Work in progress in the artist’s studio

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Edmond’s Uncommon Ground Sculpture Park on ‘life support’

Apr 30, 2024 By Admin in Sculpture

Negotiations between the French Family Foundation, city leaders and the Edmond Fine Arts Institute regarding the Uncommon Ground Sculpture Park have come to a breaking point, attorney Todd McKinnis told the Edmond Alliance at its quarterly luncheon last week.

Amateur photographer accidentally makes bird-watching history

Apr 30, 2024 By Admin in Photography

An amateur photographer has set the bird-watching world a-twitter after he accidentally took what appears to be the first photograph of a rare blue rock thrush in the United States.

Michael Sanchez, from Vancouver, Washington state, set up his camera at Hug Point in Oregon at dawn on April 21 hoping to capture photographs of a waterfall on the Pacific Northwest coastline.

As he waited for the sun to rise over nearby cliffs, Sanchez spotted what appeared to be a blackbird hopping in the foreground. Sensing the light was good, he took a few shots.

MICHAEL SANCHEZ

When he checked his camera later, he noticed the bird was not black but had mysterious blue and chestnut-coloured plumage. The next day he posted the photograph to his Facebook

Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (April 2024): Cheryl Lalonde |

Apr 30, 2024 By Admin in Photography

The Fstoppers community is brimming with creative vision and talent. Every day, we comb through your work, looking for images to feature as the Photo of the Day or simply to admire your creativity and technical prowess. In 2023, we’re featuring a new photographer every month, whose portfolio represents both stellar photographic achievement and a high level of involvement within the Fstoppers community.

This month’s winner is Cheryl Lalonde! Her work is notable for its dramatic use of light and striking compositions. Be sure to check out our favorite shots of hers below and give her a follow to see her full portfolio. She’s now in the running for Fstoppers Community Photographer of the Year!

How to Be Chosen

Remember, in 2024, we’ll be featuring a photographer chosen from the community every month. At the end of the year, the Fstoppers Community Photographer of the Year will be chosen from the 12 monthly winners, with the overall winner getting a tutorial of their choice from the Fstoppers store. Be sure to share your photos in the Fstoppers community!

See Past Photographers of the Month

You can see all Photographers of the Month here.

Juan Piza hyperrealistic sculptures #ArtTuesday

Apr 30, 2024 By Admin in Sculpture

Juan Piza (Valencia, 1979) pours all of his imagination and his passion for fantasy or gore into a series of hyperrealistic sculptural projects in which he is involved from the beginning to develop…