Ale Rambar is a Costa Rican artist that makes 3D art using layers of paper. During his time as an architect back in 2013, Rambar was drawn to the beauty of topographic maps. He found the concept of the topographic map with 2D layers transforming into 3D elements and this concept became his main artistic work.

Rambar makes each of his pieces by analyzing and following the topographic map of human bodies from their bumps and crevices to their indentations and protruding elements. He sketches out everything to perfectly map out each person’s topography.

“Each piece is cut separately, layer by layer, and then assembled by hand to create ‘human topographies’” as his work. The reason Rambar enjoys using paper is that he is drawn to how clean and crisp the end results are once you learn how to manipulate the paper properly.

Rambar believes that art should try to change society and bring attention to issues that are a part of our daily lives. This is why Rambar uses his work to open conversations about the experiences of sexual identity or the discrimination people have felt from their identities.

Andy was born on July 26, 1956 in Cheshire, United Kingdom and is 66 years old. He’s an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. Working as both sculptor and photographer, Goldsworthy crafts his installations out of rocks, ice, leaves, or branches, cognizant that the landscape will change, then carefully documents the ephemeral collaborations with nature through photography. “It’s not about art,” he has explained. “It’s just about life and the need to understand that a lot of things in life do not last.” In his teen years, he worked as a farm laborer in rural England before going on to study art at Bradford College of Art and later Preston Polytechnic. In 1985, the artist moved to Scotland where he began producing work. Goldworthy’s works are held in the collections of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, among others.  The artist currently lives and works in Dumfriesshire, United Kingdom.

Gustave Eiffel was born Alexandre Gustave Bronickhausen dit Eiffel on December 15, 1832, in Dijon, Burgundy, France with his parents migrating from Germany before Gustave was born. Eiffel was a very studious student all through his upbringing, he attended college or university at École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in which he studied chemistry. 

After he finished his education, Eiffel went to work on a railroad engineering project for his first primary paid job. He then went to work on a railway bridge in Bordeaux, France. His most notable work was the Eiffel Tour located in Paris, France which has now become one of Paris’ most prominent tourist attractions. The construction of this structure was started in 1887 and was completed in 1889 in time for the Word’s Fair which was being hosted in Paris that year. Gustave Eiffel died on December 27, 1913, while listening to some Beethoven and was buried in his family’s tomb located northwest of Paris, France.

David Blandy is a British artist known for his works that explore themes of identity, race, and pop-culture. Blandy studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and later earned a Masters in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art. His art spans video, installation, performance, and gaming, often drawing on personal experiences and family history. Blandy’s work has been exhibited internationally, and he has won numerous awards for his contributions to contemporary art.

David Blandy’s exhibition, “Atomic Light”, consists of four interconnected films. The exhibition draws on Blandy’s family history, exploring how historical events such as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Second World War have shaped our world. He often combines found footage with his own filmed material, as well as animation and computer-generated images. Blandy is particularly interested in exploring the cultural and historical resonances of different types of media, and he often incorporates vintage footage from sources like old movies, television shows, and newsreels into his work.

https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/david-blandy-atomic-light-review-john-hansard-gallery-southampton

Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a French artist based in London who specializes in installation, performance, sculpture, and design. Chaimowicz’s work often explores themes of memory, domesticity, as well as the connection between art and everyday life.

One of Chaimowicz’s most significant works is “Nuit Américaine,” a large-scale installation that was first exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2016. The installation was named after a term used in the film industry to describe the technique of shooting night scenes during the day, using filters to create the illusion of darkness.

“Nuit Américaine” consists of a series of rooms that are furnished with a range of objects, including furniture, textiles, and decorative items. The rooms are designed to create a sense of domestic intimacy and comfort, while also evoking a dreamlike, surreal atmosphere.

https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/marc-camille-chaimowicz-nuit-americaine-review-wiels-brussels

Petrit Halilaj is a contemporary artist from Kosovo who specializes in installations and sculptures that explore issues related to identity, memory, and displacement. His work is deeply rooted in his personal experiences growing up in Kosovo during the war and the subsequent period of reconstruction and transformation.

Halilaj’s work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the New Museum in New York, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Mario Merz Prize in 2014 and the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize.

“Very volcanic over this green feather” is one of Petrit Halilaj’s installation. This work was first exhibited at the Fondazione Merz in Turin, Italy in 2018, and later at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 2019.

He was born August 5, 1920 , in New York City and was named after his father. As a kid he took art lessons and spent quite a bit of time hanging around museums. For school, he went to Philips Academy and transferred to Harvard University to graduate with an English degree. For his art career he went to study under Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League of New York. Here he got most of his artistic influence at the start of his career.

George Tooker did lots of impressionist paintings in the late 1900s. They were all mainly for social and political characteristics. This is because of the wars and impacts it had during his time. Most of his work had negative connotations on how people are feeling during those trying times.

“George Tooker’s work expressed a 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation. Above, “The Subway” from 1950.
Credit…Whitney Museum of American Art” (William Grimes)

This piece from the 1950s, shows the lives of office works being alienated and isolated. All the colors are very similar and it feels as though theres no way out. Gates are all over the place and the people in the painting look super anxious or nervous.

George Tooker, The Waiting Room, 1959, egg tempera on wood, 24 x 30 in. (61.0 x 76.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., 1969.47.43

This creepy drawing made in 1959, showing the frustrating times that George Tooker had at the bureaucracy while trying to obtain permits. He shows how worn down everyone is. Something I notice is his color palette is the same as The Subway. This is probably how he saw everyone in real life. Realistic and mundane.

Citation:

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/waiting-room-24195

https://whitney.org/collection/works/3052

Daria Aksenova is an artist known for her suspended narrative shadowboxes made with layers of paper and ink. Aksenova focuses her work on telling stories of mythology and folklore with the use of cinematography through constructed dynamism of layering hand-cut and inked paper to make her complex works. These works are then suspended inside decorative boxes for all to view and enjoy.

Aksenova’s work is primarily in black and white and the reason she uses that color scheme over using more colorful variations is that it challenges her creativity by removing the distraction of colors to pay more attention to the details of composition, anatomy, light, tone, and narrative. Technically, Aksenova’s work isn’t fully achromatic since some of her inks have sepia and blue undertones that add some subtle coloring to her work, but primarily nothing more colorful beyond that.

Aksenova has stated that her “mission is to bring back our childhood imaginations that are drowned out by the everyday bustle in our ever-busy lives.” So Aksenova turned to children’s stories of folklore and mythology in order to “draw the viewer back to the [stories] of their youth, hoping to create artwork that inspires the dreamer within.”

For this project, I wasn’t all that excited about working with cardboard, so I tried to just dive into the project and not do any prep work for it. I only had the idea to get some cardboard boxes and cut a bunch of different small shapes out of them. After doing that and having a bunch of shapes, I started to just assemble together to form some sort of sculpture. 

I used a combination of super glue and cutting slits into the cardboard pieces to make these pieces stick together. Getting close to using up all the pieces for the cardboard sculpture, I realized that I needed to make it taller to fulfill the height requirement of the project. After some thought, I decided to grab a random piece of cardboard that was still partially still intact to use as a base to hold the whole sculpture up. From there, I drew the outlines and extra lines for each part of the sculpture to make it appear more 2D comic book-like. Then, I was done with the project.

Not the biggest fan of this project, but it got done and it wasn’t completely bad looking. I think if I had more time and motivation to work on this project, it could have ended up looking better.

I started by digging through the recycling to find cardboard. Once I found a good box I began to cut it into different shapes. I then connected the different shapes by cutting slits in the cardboard. Then, I hot glued the pieces that needed extra reinforcement. After the sculpture was built, I took it to my partner’s house to use his spray paint. I spray painted half of it black and the other half white because I wanted to create a duality between a light and dark side.

Using posca pens, I drew patterns on each of the different pieces of cardboard. On the black side I drew with white pen and on the white side I drew with red, blue, green and yellow. I was going to make the whole thing black and white but I decided that was too predictable. I really like how the drawings ended up transforming the sculpture.

This was a challenging assignment for me because 3D work is usually way out of my comfort zone. Overall, I’m happy with how it turned out.