DON’T APPROVE NEEDS WORK
> Dimitri Tsykalov is a Russian-born artist living and working in France. These works are part of his ‘Skulls’ series. Tsykalov has produced many controversial works, especially from his ‘Meat’ and ‘Masks’ series’. He told the he uses ‘an electric drill, saw, axe, kitchen knives, spoons, scalpel, pincers and cotton wool pads. Once I have finished carving, I let oxidation do its work – leaving the sculpted piece of fruit to ripen in my studio over a few days. ‘The flies let me know when it’s ready and time to take a picture,’ he told the Daily Mail.
2. The Typocal American
These colour swab-inspired designs are the work of David Schwen, a Minneapolis based creative with a focus on illustration, design and art direction. He is the leader of Dschwen LLC, a creative studio that focuses on design-based products physically and online. He also works conceptually with design as seen in the typographic series, Sanswich, (below) created using only Helvetica and colour to create type sandwiches.
The world to its core
New York Artist and photographer Kevin Van Aelst is interested in creating order where we expect randomness. He has created egg faces and sausage fingerprints as well as this striking apple globe. He also folds paper and shapes cloth, in each case taking everyday objects that we usual see in intention-less shapes and creating meaning from them.
Tiny towns
Writer, artist and filmmaker Christopher Boffoli is famous for his ‘Big Appetites’ series featuring miniscule characters that tower above, sit in-between and adventure around food. His fine art photography is inspired by films and television shows that exploit and dramatise the comedic potential of different scales.
