Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Mercurial Emotions Carved into New Glitched Sculptures by Yoshitoshi Kanemaki #ArtTuesday

I first came across Yoshitoshi Kanemaki on instagram. His work is really neat and the detail is out of this world.

via COLOSSAL

Japanese sculptor Yoshitoshi Kanemaki (previously) captures the emotional complexities of youth in his glitched 3-dimensional portraits. Kanemaki carves tree trunks into figures—often young women—whose faces are multiplied in expressions that range from distressed to joyful in a single sculpture. The figures’ casual, natural poses seem to capture them in real time: some of the artist’s characters perch on chairs mid-conversation, and others gesture with their arms to express confidence or bashfulness. In his finished works, Kanemaki usually uses lifelike coloring, but for one recent sculpture shown in detail below, the artist experimented with creating the sensation of an out-of-focus image by using soft, blurred shapes and colors to complete the expression.

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