When I opened my eyes in the morning, my phone melted
What is it like to live in a place with an average temperature of 40 degrees? Maybe just rubbed our sleepy eyes in the morning, and the moment we touched the phone, we found that it had turned into a puddle of sticky liquid.
© Steffen Ullman
On a whim in 2020, Berlin-based artist Steffen Ullman decided to use digital technology to completely "melt" technology products such as mobile phones, computers, watches, and cars. In the photo, the relationship between electronic products and users has become "stalemate". They seem to have free will and can choose to "lie down" and "strike" as they please. These realistic pictures make users mistakenly think that a different-dimensional world has been opened.
© Steffen Ullman
Why did the apples melt too?
Since 2004, Japanese artist Yosuke Amemiya has created more than 70 apple sculptures between solid and liquid states. In the early days, he mainly used plastic as the material, and later he chose to carve on wood and then paint it with paint. Why indulge in surrealizing "the most common fruit on the planet"? Amemiya hopes that through such works, everyone can reflect and doubt more about the established reality in life, because there is no eternal truth in this world.
© Yosuke Amemiya
In order to make each apple look "more realistic than real", Amemiya will go to Japan's largest apple growing region to ask local fruit farmers, visit the Apple Museum, and delve into a series of knowledge about apple growth, and he will even go to the largest apple growing area in Japan. 's studio personally planted apple trees for observation.
Today, he increasingly wants to create an apple that is the most common and representative in the world, even though he understands that such an apple does not exist in the world. In 2019, by cooperating with data scientists, he restored a universal apple based on big data.
© Yosuke Amemiya
Everything in the room starts to drift
Since about 2010, Brazilian artist Vanderlei Lopes has polished bronze to create a series of golden liquid sculptures. Pieces of golden liquid gurgled out from the holes in the wall; or gathered at the mouth of the sewer, waiting to flow into a deep invisible black hole; the water stains left by the cups on the table also solidified into circles of gold; even visiting the The same goes for the footsteps left behind.
© Vanderlei Lopes
Vanderlei named this series of works "Monuments", and he wanted to celebrate the trivial things of everyday life rather than the monumental monuments of ancient heroes, which are huge, submissive, historical artifacts of a specific class will. These ephemeral, always forgotten things still have eternal beauty and precious value.
© Vanderlei Lopes
Through the deconstruction of everyday things, Vanderlei's works always show a more intriguing interest. Although these works are not as majestic and imposing as pyramids, triumphal arches, statues of great men, etc. The "Monument" also left a deep imprint on the viewer's mind.
© Vanderlei Lopes
When you open the door, the city has melted
In 2019, Colombian visual effects artist Julian Mateus, who was only 20 years old at the time, used 3D design to show what he imagined a world in which global warming was accelerating: buildings, cars, benches and mailboxes deformed in the heat until they became A pile of liquid disappeared. Although it seems a bit alarmist, with the endless exploitation of resources by human beings, we can't help but wonder if such a scene will come true?
© Julian Mateus
Julian spent a total of 66 hours to complete the work, intending to call attention to environmental issues, "overpopulation and the excessive 'plundering' of resources by human beings have made the problem of climate deterioration worse and worse." By destroying the wooden chairs where people rest , Julian wants to create a sense of urgency and make everyone realize that solving the climate problem is urgent.
© Julian Mateus
Famous paintings in art museums are also disappearing?
On a hot summer day, what would happen if the art gallery didn't turn on the air conditioner? Out of curiosity about this question, Viennese graphic designer Alper Dostal created the series "HOT ART EXHIBITION". Rene Magritte's "Children of Men", Picasso's "Guernica", Van Gogh's "Starry Night"... A series of treasures in the history of painting are all flowing in a surreal state and are about to be destroyed. . The most conspicuous of them is Edvard Munch's "The Scream".
© Alper Dostal
At the end of the 19th century, Munch created several versions of his paintings with the motif of "The Scream".The frightened and helpless expressions of the characters in the picture deeply resonate with everyone who has just stepped into modern society.As critics put it, "Here is a man in deep existential crisis, without God, traditions, customs, without all anchors to the world, facing a world he doesn't understand at all, he can only feel to deep pain."And even today, more than a hundred years later, when faced with unknown climate change and more questions about the human condition, each of us seems to be very much like the villain who is screaming in the picture.
© Alper Dostal
If the whole world was melting
Artist Tatiana Blass has been working on visualizing life's inconspicuous processes. In 2005, under the title "Tails", she melted a series of chairs and spheres. Through the cutting and coloring of wood and glass, the originally regular geometric objects flowed out a pool of viscous bright liquid on the ground.
© Tatiana Blass
In addition to "Tails," many of Tatiana's works also remind us of the passing of things, such as waxing figures of people and animals, then placing them on a hot plate to show them melting bit by bit. One of the most impressive is Tatiana's 2018 work "Shoes". These leather shoes did not sink too deep into the concrete, as if they had just fallen into the mud. The owner of the shoe has disappeared, which just happens to leave us endless imagination.
© Tatiana Blass
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