Skull of Books

Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre has finally found a use for all those obsolete computing books that have been collecting dust worldwide. His newest work-in-progress is called Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty II) and as you can see, it is a near perfect rendition of a human skull popping out from a stack of outdated computer manuals.








Via: Thisiscolossal

Streaming Books Installations by Alycia Martin

The Spain-based artist Alicia Martin's sculptural installation at Casa de America, Madrid depicts a cavalcade of books streaming out of the side of a building. The whirlwind of literature defies gravity and draws attention with its grandeur size. There have been three site-specific installations, thus far, of the massive sculptural works in this series known as Biografias, translated as Biographies, that each feature approximately 5,000 books sprawled out around and atop one another.


















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Reading Landscapes by Kyle Kirkpatrick

UK-based artist Kyle Kirkpatrick transforms books into beautiful landscape sculptures, complete with miniature figurines. The layering in Kirkpatrick's work is remarkable and the text on the pages add an interesting visual to the swirling cuts.

"My practice is primarily concerned with the notion of the imagined landscape. I present man-made objects and natural materials simultaneously to form carefully and meticulously composed installation works. I capitalize on intrigue taking objects out of context reinventing their use, pushing the viewer to see beyond what I present before them, a glass could be interpreted as a lake or a metal bracket a cliff".

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