Alex Chinneck’s Public Infrastructure and Instruments Twist to Bizarrely Impractical Proportions — Colossal

Alex Chinneck’s Public Infrastructure and Instruments Twist to Bizarrely Impractical Proportions — Colossal



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#Alex Chinneck
#humor
#set up
#public artwork
#sculpture

July 26, 2024

Grace Ebert

Alex Chinneck’s Public Infrastructure and Instruments Twist to Bizarrely Impractical Proportions — Colossal

All photos © Alex Chinneck, shared with permission

Alex Chinneck has the world tied in knots as he distorts on a regular basis instruments and infrastructure. Twisting and twining phone cubicles, hammers, and lamp posts, the British artist (beforehand) warps widespread objects to exaggerated proportions, rendering every nearly totally unusable. Mop handles type good bows, a brush constricts so tightly round a canister that blue paint spills out, and a vibrant pink fireplace extinguisher seems choked for air. Chinneck’s interventions are boldly weird and converse to the extraordinary potential of humble objects.

This summer season, the artist will set up the knotted lamp posts under as a part of a everlasting work in Bristol, together with a spectacular boat endeavor a gravity-defying loop-the-loop for the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal. Keep watch over these initiatives and discover his current kinetic sculptures for Hérmes’s Hong Kong retailer on Instagram.

 

a hammer with a knot at the center of the handle

a metal paint can with a brush tied tight around the center and blue paint squirting from the bottom and top

a large lamp post that appears to embrace a smaller lamp post in a warehouse

two lamp posts tie together into a bow in a warehouse

a bright red fire extinguisher with a tightly twisted knot at the center

two mops in buckets in a laundromat with their wooden handles tied in a bow

#Alex Chinneck
#humor
#set up
#public artwork
#sculpture

 

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