Presentation of The work of Italian artists Antonio Garullo and Mario Ottocento, called [The Italian Dream] showing a wax figurine of Italys former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi as being dead or asleep inside a glass shrine, is exhibited on May 29, 2012 at the Ferrajoli Palace in the center of Rome, Italy. In this controversial work Berlusconi is smiling, wearing funny slippers and the trousers open. (Photo by Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)...
Tip Toland is a sculptor and instructor living in the Seattle, Washington area. Her current focus is figurative ceramic sculpture. Tip is represented by the Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York City.
Photo: [Letter to God], 2011. Stoneware, paint, chalk pastel, hair. (Photo by Tip Toland/Marie-Andrée Côté)...
Mike De Butts adds the finishing touches to a giant Baobab Tree sculpture entitled [Under the Baobab], outside the Southbank Centre on May 24, 2012 in London, England. The Pirate Technics installation is made from a selection of brightly coloured fabrics from around the world, and is part of the Southbank Centres [Festival of the World] exhibition, which includes a series of large scale pieces of art that will be in place around the Southbank centre over the Summer. (Photo by Dan Kitwood)...
[Filthy Luker is a painter who is really attacking his audience. Who could think that a green octopus suddenly starts to creep out from the windows, a huge banana rind lounges just in the center of a road and the trees start to see!] (Photo by Filthy Luker/Vedi tutte le foto via Giornalettismo.com)...
Shanghai-based artist Hong Yi, also known as Red, used 750 pair of socks to create a rather unusual sock portrait of famous Chinese film director Zhang Yimou. Yi, which is famous for her Coffee Stain Portrait, spent over three weeks on the project and used black, white and grey socks. (Photo by Ohiseered.com)...
The art workshop founded in 2011 by Marvellini Brothers in Milan.[Imagination is more important than knowledge] (by A.E.)...
[Li Wei (born in 1970, Hubei, China) is a contemporary artist from Beijing, China. His work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. Wei started off his performance series, Mirroring, and later on took off attention with his Falls series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics]....
Mickey McCooper, born 1972 as Michel Valentino in Stuttgart-Germany, is a photo-artist, filmmaker, painter, and media-entrepreneur. He is well known for the broad range of subject matter he is able to interpret, he is widely recognized for his unusual people portraiture, his editorial photography, his photo illustrations, photographic design and his extraordinary repertoire of art photography, painings and drawings.
Photo: Space Invaders, 2011. (Photo by Mickey McCooper)...
Edouard Martinet was born in Le Mans, France in 1963 he studied art at ESAG, Paris and graduated in 1988. From 1988 to 1992 he lived and worked in Paris as a graphic designer, and in 1990 started sculpting and staging exhibitions. From 1992 to 1995 he lived in Charente before moving to his current location in Rennes where he teaches art at LInstitut des Arts Appliques....
Charlotte Roirdan, from Lyon and Turnbull, poses near portrait of a woman wearing a bikini made entirely out of postcards of the Queen on April 20, 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The portrait Girl in a Yellow Bikini by David Mach, is estimated to raise between £4000 to £6000 at their Scottish Contemporary Sale to be held on April 25. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell)...