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Jeff Zimmerman

Jeff Zimmerman is a renowned master glassmaker who uses advanced glassmaking techniques to create unusual lamps, vessels and ornaments, and he currently lives and works in New York City.

Born in 1968 to an artistic family, his mother was a painter and his father a sculptor, and the artistic upbringing he received as a child influenced his future choices.

At the age of 20, Jeff took his first glass-blowing class and began his apprenticeship by continuing to learn and then being introduced to Italian glass masters Lino Tagliapietro and Pino Signoretto.

Jeff uses glass as a vehicle to create colorful, soft yet mysterious works. Some of his works are in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York and the Bogotá Foundation in Belgium.

Here are some of his works.

Crystal Cluster

The unique Crystal Cluster table lamp is made of translucent white and dark blue hand-blown glass, which is elegant and very dynamic.

Galaxy Cluster

Hand-blown glass panels are layered and interlaced to wrap a delicate circular chandelier with a grainy surface that gives it a more natural and transparent appearance.

Hanging Pendant

This irregularly shaped blown glass chandelier, decorated with glass crystals, is very dreamy.

Vine

Vine series, as the name suggests, resembles a vine, and the irregular shade is like a budding flower.

The bent branches hold the white "buds", very romantic.

The wall sconce in the same element is also rich in texture.

There is also a custom-made translucent gray glass ball that resembles a vine.

Snow Crystal Hanging illuminated Sculpture

A unique snowflake crystal chandelier with 50 hand-blown round translucent glass spheres.

Milk Drop

The "Milk Drop" chandelier is made of frosted glass, full of creativity.

Coral Cluster

The fixture comes with a large number of translucent white-blown glass balls with a unique rough texture surface.

Amoeba

This frosted, hand-blown glass chandelier is loved for its unique shape, which can be illuminated individually or in multiple combinations.

All images via Jeff Zimmerman

SOA Arts

Looking to revamp your hotel lobby? Got a growing art collection that needs some new pieces? Something else entirely? We're here to help. 

At SOA Arts, we have over a decade's worth of experience in producing, commissioning, and curating sensational art sculptures from around the world. Whether you're scratching your head and wondering where to start or know exactly what you're looking for, get in touch today and we'll be happy to help! 

The colorful spiral flamingo, the Siamese cat stretching its back, the big rooster with its head held high, the poodle looking into the distance. Can you believe these are not sketches! They are all 3D sculptures.

Korean artist Lee Sangsoo uses coiled strips of metal or resin to "paint in the air" to create vivid animal sculptures. He uses painted metal strips to create various minimalist abstract sculptures by simply bending, twisting, and coiling them.

These animals are not merely new and intriguing but also bright and colorful. Although they are simply wound with metal strips in a geometric spiral, the whole work visually presents a different dynamic and lively. Many of Lee Sangsoo's inspirations come from Picasso, he says.

The overall structure of the seemingly simple shape is perfectly three-dimensional. Lines, flats and colors are important elements in his work. He draws the basic lines in a sketchbook before he works.

In his creation, he prefers square columnar lines, because the thickness of the lines can be better thickened or thinned to present the most suitable shape and color in three-dimensional space, which sends people a different dynamic feeling even in static work.

Lee Sangsoo's creative animal sculptures have attracted the art world's attention. After a fresh attempt, he even moved his "zoo" to the outdoor square, incorporating the concept of ecological balance between humans and animals, creating a series of storytelling and warm works.

Lee Sangsoo has successfully interpreted that everything can be painted. These colorful animal sculptures with simple lines and dynamic shapes are like the abstract animals in Picasso's paintings standing up, and art is so ingenious and crazy.

All images via Lee Sangsoo

Matt Shlian combines intricate hand-folding crafts with digital maps to create fascinating paper sculptures. Shlian, who works at the intersection of art and science, describes himself as an "engineer on paper". His work is patterned by microscopic natural forms and structures, such as cell membranes.

His approach to paper art is primarily a fusion of paper and geometric elements, which is characterized by a sense of dynamism, and his work is often referred to as kinetic, with a sense of movement in almost all of his pieces.

Matt Shlian's ability to use and grasp for paper is quite impressive, as if the paper has a soul and consciousness in his hands, sending us the power of simple elegance.

Shlian believes that the best artworks should be marginal, created in the blurred zone between science and art, between architecture and engineering, between science and mathematics. 2006, he received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. In the same year, he began working with the University of Michigan engineers to explore the connection between origami and 3D nanotechnology.

The artist is responsible for turning the paper into three-dimensional sculptures, and the scientists are responsible for deciphering what scientific problems such structures might be able to solve. The scientist sees the artist's paper projects as metaphors for scientific principles, while the artist sees the scientist's questions as a source of artistic inspiration.

Shlian has exhibited his work widely across the United States and had a major solo exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, D.C., in 2016. His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Drawing Center, and he has received commissions from brands as diverse as Apple, Facebook, Supreme, and Sesame Street.

When Matt Silien is asked about the origins of his work, he says that he doesn't create linearly or logically, "It's doubt and curiosity that leads me to create. I started creating when I couldn't figure out what style the final presentation of the work would be and used curiosity to make sense of it all." He says.

Curiosity has Silien's creative process experimental. When he starts to create, he usually doesn't have a clear and definite idea, but just gives himself some qualifications. For example, for one piece, Silien will limit himself to folding with only one curve, while for another piece, he will ask for the same length or the same angle. Sometimes he starts his work with a certain movement, trying to find that final shape or pattern in the working process. Mistakes or even errors can occur in the process, and these mishaps often end up being more interesting than the initial idea.

all images via Matthew Shlian

image via morbu

Ceramist Hélène Morbu transforms clay into delicate meshwork.

French ceramic artist Helene Morbu recently launched two vase series, "quetzal" and "codex" , exploring the iconic forms of the vessel. The two designs also embody an experimental and decorative production method that mixes textile and ceramic materials, influenced by the texture of the adobe.

Guided by the production process, Helene Morbu uses a slow and delicate shaping technique of "squeezing the adobe" to create the "quetzal" vases, which resemble woven rattan.

The pieces have an unusual yet familiar look, available in terracotta and khaki, an earthy color palette that also references the look of stone architecture.

Similar colors and patterns are used in the "codex" series, which is made of sandstone and has a flat disc shape, only 1.19 cm thick, and a battlemented, porous surface reminiscent of lace or the perforated form of a fishing net.

The quetzal vase

Designers have established a new design language between fine textures and strict lines.

images via Hélène Morbu

"The artist is to act as the one who provokes the spearhead of social controversy to draw attention to social issues and influence the audience to think deeply."

---Kong Jingcai

That's what he says and that's what he does.

His works are full of humanistic feelings.

About animal killing, environmental protection, public welfare

He uses his art to expose the dark side of society.

INTRODUCTION

Kong Jingcai

Zhanjiang, Guangdong

Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a Bachelor's degree.

Professional sculptor.

Member of China International Modern Art Research Center.

Member of Foshan Arts and Crafts Society.

Kong Jingcai believes that "as a contemporary artist, his works need to be contemporary, and the artist himself also needs to have a certain sense of social responsibility and to think about various social issues of the present." Therefore, he starts from the acute problems of the current society, looks for visual elements in the life experience, deconstructs and reorganizes them, and thus responds to the contradictory boundary points in the current social situation. From "Wailing Series" and "City Series" to the recent "Great River and Mountain Series" are all environmental protection themes, in which there are many different styles of creation, which are equally beautiful but can express different thoughts and ideas.

Wailing Series

Let music speak for dead animals

Wailing Series - String Quartet 580x150x235 cm Mixed media 2015

Can you imagine that the fur clothing on these cellos are real? They are wrapped in real fur and then played, making a sound that seems like an animal's wail. This is Kong Jingcai's "Wailing Series - String Quartet".

The starting point is "animal furs" and the carrier is "violin". The sound of the cello is sad and wailing. When the string slides the cello, it emits a trembling sound, like the pain and crying when the animal is skinned alive or when the butcher's knife is set on it. Fur has transformed from a warming function in primitive society to a luxury and fashionable pursuit in modern society. How to rebuild the mutual relationship between human beings and nature is an important issue in modern society and a mission that contemporary art has to face directly.

Wailing Series String Quartet - Viola

In "Wailing Series - String Quartet", Kong Jingcai wrapped violin, viola, cello and double bass with fur and let the strings play a piece together "Schindler's List" episode.

It was from this work that Kong Jingcai came to believe that artists should act as the one who provokes social conflicts and controversies to arouse the public's attention to social issues and prompt the audience to think deeply.

Ferryman series

Ferryman No.1 39x20x61cm stainless steel 2019

Throughout our lives, we play two roles, constantly ferrying others or being ferried by others.

The artist Kong Jingcai uses poetic understanding and contextual expression to interpret the imagination of each stage of life's journey.

Ferryman No.2 52x20x60cm stainless steel 2019

There is always somehow beautiful lament and is filled with the state of bemoaning the universe in Kong Jingcai's works. The artist places a kind of sadness in the whole nature-- the impact of industrialization and urbanization on human beings and nature.

Ferryman No.3 86x22x60cm stainless steel 2019

Ferryman No.6 70x20x42cm stainless steel 2019

Great Rivers and Mountains Series

Great Rivers and Mountains Series No.1 115x28x38cm stainless steel 2016

Great Rivers and Mountains Series" is a set of sculptures in surrealist style consisting of two forms: "mountains and rivers" and "weapons". Aircraft carriers, tanks, airplanes, and guns, each of them is a man-made tools with hidden dangers. In the design, Kong Jingcai divides each sculpture with a horizontal line, the mountain at the top and the water at the bottom, while the mountain and water are more in line with the shape of the landscape in traditional Chinese painting. A contrast between tradition and modernity, man-made and nature, and vitality and destruction are vividly portrayed.

Great Rivers and Mountains Series NO.3 72x40x22cm stainless steel 2016

Great Rivers and Mountains Series NO.2 75x45x55cm stainless steel 2016

The City Series

The City Series - Visible Landscape 175x68x65cm Cast bronze/stainless steel 2014

"Humans have always been confidently thinking of conquering nature, but I think we should be more respectful of nature. As old saying goes, "heaven and earth are not benevolent", we feel that heaven and earth are not benevolent; for example, modern water pollution is deteriorating, but because our earth is seven parts ocean, our little humans may not feel the obvious threat in a short time, but I often have the fantasy that this marine pollution will give birth to all kinds of unknown new creatures, and there may be new species to replace humans in the near future. The desire to protect natural resources while destroying the natural environment for the sake of profit and development may be a matter of self-control and measurement in the desire of human nature."

---Kong Jingcai

City Series - Melting 68x25x48cm cast bronze/stainless steel 2015

The work "City Series" by Kong Jingcai uses the shape of a building as a kind of basic unit to form symbols similar to those commonly found in traditional culture, such as Taihu rocks, mountains and rivers, and birdcages. In addition to the contrasts mentioned above, this group of works also contains a collision of solitude and prosperity. The overall design, big top and small bottom, brings a strong sense of visual conflict and crisis. Just as tragedy is often more infectious than comedy, so are Kong Jingcai's sculptures.

City Series - Straight into the Clouds 120x38x42cm Cast bronze/stainless steel 2016

City Series - High Mountains and Flowing Water 33x33x65cm stainless steel 2016 

As an artist, Kong Jingcai believes that contemporary art needs a more keen perspective than the mass to face social phenomena, which is the mission contemporary art has to shoulder. In Kong Jingcai's works, this is not only a one-way listing and generalization of a sore point and contradiction.

City Series - Steaming 60x25x92cm Stainless steel, gold plating 2015

He is more excelled at fermenting social pain points into a unique sense of beauty through a form of art creation, starting from reality, deconstructing the visual elements representative of nature and human society, and reproducing them in a kind of contradictory body reorganization, thus creating a visual aesthetic pleasure.

Déjà vu 92x36x38cm cast bronze

SOA Arts

Looking to revamp your hotel lobby? Got a growing art collection that needs some new pieces? Something else entirely? We're here to help. 

At SOA Arts, we have over a decade's worth of experience in producing, commissioning, and curating sensational art sculptures from around the world. Whether you're scratching your head and wondering where to start or know exactly what you're looking for, get in touch today and we'll be happy to help! 

"Jeff Koons confuses traditional understandings of art with his particular fusion of fine art and mass produced objects. By elevating unapologetically kitsch objects to the status of fine art, Koons explores contemporary obsessions with sexuality and desire, celebrity, advertising and the media." ---kaldorartprojects.org.au

Born in York, Pennsylvania, Jeff Koons studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York in the late 1970s to make his living as a stockbroker on Wall Street. He rose to fame in the 1980s with the launching of Bubbles (1988), the Made in Heaven (1990-1991) series and Puppy (1992), among other iconic works.

Rabbit, 2019 © Jeff Koons

Always seeking new outlets for his creativity, Koons collaborated with luxury brand Louis Vuitton to produce an edition of leather bags with iconic European paintings. 2019 witnessed his Rabbit sell for a record $91.1 million at Christie's, making him the most expensive living artist at the time. He incorporated mediocrity into many of his works and simultaneously found himself at the center of controversy.

Balloon Dog © Jeff Koons

Koons began creating sculptures using inflatable toys in the 1970s. He took ready-made inflatable rabbits and cast them in highly polished stainless steel, producing Rabbit (1986), one of his most famous works of art. Since then, the Rabbit has reverted to its original soft form at the height of over 50 feet, many times larger. When it was sold for $58 million, the "Balloon Dog" became the most expensive artwork by the artist, among living artists.

"It is very mythical", he said in describing the balloon dog. The work has an interior sense, a bit like a Trojan horse. Now they are like balloons at a birthday party, and because it is inflated, you can imagine that the birthday party is more recent than 20 years ago. 20 years ago, the normal membrane of the balloon would have been completely deflated. At the same time, there are qualities of mythology and ritualism. You can imagine people walking around the balloon dog during the dance.

Seated Ballerina, 2017 © Jeff Koons Photo: Tom Powel Imaging

That may be why some people don't like Koons' work. The way it pursues the idea of perfection - all those sleek shiny surfaces - seems to eliminate the possibility of error to remove a part of human error. Just like Milan Kundera said, "Kitsch is the denial of shit" (although Koons prefers the word "banal" to describe his work; he dislikes the adolescent word "kitsch").

There is also a part of him that believes he has changed sculpture in a new way, blending pop, minimalism and Duchamp, partly by opening up the media to its own history and reviving it with different materials and traditions and new manual techniques.

Popeye, 2009-2011, © Jeff Koons  Mirror polished stainless steel

SOA Arts has introduced many paper artists, and even in such a niche art category, they have each developed a unique and distinctive personal style. The works shared today have a new twist by American artist Joey Bates.

Joey Bates

/ American Post-80s Artist /

Instagram. @joey____bates

www.joeybates.com

Paper sculpture, a complex process with simple materials, creates the intricate and elegant art of paper sculpture, a very contrasting visual art.

Currently residing in Dals Långed, Sweden, Joey Bates layers flower petals, leaves and foliage into delicate three-dimensional bouquets full of textural detail that is done primarily on white or black paper. Joy Bates infuses numerous floral sculptures with splashes of Klein blue, fiery red and yellow, and gold to highlight a flower or a bag of leaves that look like dried paint splatters on what are actually carefully cut pieces of colored paper.

Joey Bates' paper art flowers resemble linear art, but he has layered each line and cut each layer by hand. Here's a sketch he drew before making it~

These works are minimalist in color scheme, usually using only white or black cardstock as the base color and then adding other colors in parts. The flowing liquid design seems casual, but they are all colored in layers. Each flower comprises many layers superimposed on top of each other, and each layer is hand-carved.

Bleed in Pink
cut paper, glue, and acrylic paint

15.75” x 20” x 2.5”

2020

The artist wanted to express an explosion of energy and transformation with the floral elements of paper art. The presence of the flowers makes this disturbing eruption process beautiful and calm.

The color scheme of this work is derived from the volcanic eruption, an extreme release of energy. The black is the cooled lava that surrounds the fiery core.

Joey Bates' work has been exhibited worldwide since he graduated from college and is in various institutional or private collections.

Image via©Nacasa Partners Inc

While 2023 is still weeks away, the hue masters at Pantone have already named next year's official color: "Viva Magenta."

Described as a "nuanced crimson red tone," the color is "an unconventional shade for an unconventional time," according to the company. "It is a shade rooted in nature descending from the red family and expressive of a new signal of strength."

How Viva Magenta create a new colorful style for interior decor? Let's take a look.

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Why Does Viva Magenta Stand for 2023?

Unconventional Red in Special Times

PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magent

RGB：190,52,85CMYK:33,91,56,0#BE3455 

Image via©PANTONE

A whole year awash with Anaya Valentino PP Pink and Ferragamo, Spring/Summer 2023 fashion, Viva Magenta is no longer a stranger to the offbeat and vivid color. In Pantone's official words, Viva Magenta is a shade rooted in nature descending from the red family, between red and purple, vibrant, passionate, courageous and inspiring.

Cochineal carmine cost followed gold and silver,

which remained a popular color in art and fashion circles until the last century.

Portrait of Frida Krogh © Nikolas Murray

Madonna and Iris © Dürer

The color is inspired by a cochineal native to Central America with the appearance of a crystalline raspberry, one of the most intense, bright natural dyes already available in the world.

Cochineal was first introduced to the European continent in the mid to late 15th century during the Age of Grandeur. Since then, it has become an expensive star dye, ranging from dyed shawls treasured by kings to lipsticks worn by aristocratic dames. Cochineal is considered a classic pop color of the times and remains popular today.

Image via©PANTONE

This continued color life resembles the 0.5cm long cochineal, which has survived for millennia thanks to its tiny body and hard shell. For Laurie Pressman, vice president of the Pantone Color Institute, the cochineal's resilience is akin to the fearless, courageous spirit we have shown as humans since 2020.

After more than two years of global epidemics, Viva Magenta will infect everyone struggling to get by with an optimistic spirit. That's right! We are confident that we can return to a normal pace with the world.

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A House with Viva Magenta

Breaking the Aesthetic Barrier between Virtual and Reality

Unlike previous years, the color of the year Viva Magenta, was professionally selected by fashion and design trend forecasters and calculated by Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool.

Innovative, pioneering, futuristic, strong, and warm, Viva Magenta has been labeled "unexplored future world", a color that was born for the Metaverse. With Viva Magenta, Pantone hopes to find a balance between the aesthetics of the virtual and the reality and to activate a fresh sensory experience.

Image via ©Nacasa Partners Inc

In 2021, UID built a Casaneiro residence in Nara, Japan. From the big colorful partition wall outside, the bright Magenta is placed into the space, creating a beautiful and mysteriously deep place to live.

Image via©Nacasa Partners Inc

Inside, the traditional Japanese fresh space is painted and decorated with Magenta on a large scale. Under the white walls, the vibrant Magenta is even more dynamic and vivid under the white walls, and it shows unrestrained vitality under the sunlight and green plants.

Image via©Nacasa Partners Inc

What is incredible is the massive magenta sofa wall and TV background wall in the living room. The designer boldly uses Magenta to connect the first and second floors, and the mysterious and deep depth is extended infinitely, sending a whimsical sensory experience when sitting in the living room. The semi-open dining and kitchen area is based on clean white, which not only releases the visual oppression brought by the large area of Magenta but also divides the functional partition of life.

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Interior Inspiration from Viva Magenta

Easy to shape the life of your home

If you also want to try Viva Magenta in your home, you don't need to makeover your home thoroughly, and you don't need to combine all the trendy color pieces at once. All you need is just rightly choose new products in Viva Magenta to fit perfectly into the details of your space.

 IDEA 1, Change A New Carpet

image via©Bonell+Dòriga

No matter the season, carpet is an essential item to enhance the style of your home. Changing warm and bright shades of large carpet is most suitable in the cold and dull autumn and winter. Even if you are too troubled to change other home accessories, a rug in Viva Magenta can instantly transform your home's aura. 

In the Barcelona apartment in Spain, Bonell+Dòriga gives the white and blue-based home a distinctive and chic look with just a vintage patterned magenta rug. Imagine sprawling out on the carpet in the sunshine, flipping through magazines.

IDEA 2, Let the Outer Heating Cover and Storage Cabinet Bold!

image via©Eduardo Macarios

TN ARQUITETURA, a design office from Brazil, has boldly used different shades of Magenta throughout the home, especially the magenta storage cabinet in one corner of the living room, to interpret the artistic details of the design vividly. The decorative lines and patterns can easily break the dull feeling of using Magenta in a large area.

 IDEA 3, Decorative Magenta Art Painting and Single Item

Picture 1, 2©Darkroom-Harry

Picture 3©Paolo Fusco

Local space is the most convenient to create, and you can choose and match some magenta pieces in your favorite home space at your will. No matter where you decorate, Magenta's innate vitality can give the room a more endearing sense of modernity and dynamic characteristics.

A bright magenta lamp, a subdued magenta sofa and chairs, and a little magenta accent make the details sophisticated and restrained without ruining the overall style and harmony of the home.

Everyone's perception of color is different, and we don't have to be limited by popular colors. The most important thing is: we must always keep our color perception intact, actively discover the colors in our lives and draw strength from them.

What is your impression of  Viva Magenta? Feel free to comment below~

It really resembles cabbage, doesn't it?

When I first saw the glass sculptures of British artist Richard Price, cabbage came to my mind, and even more so, I thought of the "Jade Cabbage", a treasure of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China. Of course, in terms of art and value, the two cannot be mentioned in the same breath.

But Richard's glass creations are indeed not only influenced by Eastern culture, but also carry a strong brand of Eastern culture.

Back to the story!

At the age of 18, Richard loved to roam around the local area and almost all the surroundings, but an inadvertent discovery of a glass furnace at the local art school gave him a strong interest in glass.

After graduating from art school, still longing for glass art, he went to Amsterdam, and entered the glass art program at the prestigious Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts, and spent the next ten years creating and exploring non-stop in the glass field, looking for his excitement and ultimate direction.

While a trip to Thailand, the magical oriental culture and natural landscapes, led to a seismic shift in his creations and the creation of unique and beautiful vases based on the craft of cast glass, combined with oriental culture and natural landscapes.

Plants, flowers and birds, architecture and landscapes are mixed together, the visual aesthetic is western, the detailed elements are oriental, and the combination of the two wonders is indistinguishable from each other, yet so harmonious and beautiful, with a little bit of exoticism. Yet, it feels like traditional Asian stone or jade carving.

And each vase, no matter what the elements and shape, looks like a cabbage, palatable.

images via kiinii App

That's all for today. Thanks for watching~

Source: Matteo Mauro

Resin is an organic polymer that tends to soften or melt when heated and flow when softened by external forces. It is solid, semi-solid, or sometimes liquid at room temperature, which can be divided into natural and synthetic resins. It falls into thermoplastic and thermosetting resins according to their different processing. Resin materials are widely used in the modeling materials of crafts, and with their material merits, such as smooth lines and bright texture.

Today we share with you five sculptors and their resin sculptures. Take a look!

Italian Sculptor Annaluigia Boerett

Source: Annaluigia Boerett

Italian artist Annaluigia Boerett uses resin and glass to form water and glass elements in a whole sculpture, be it a volatile book page or a flower that breaks through the frame, splashed with her creative push to condense the life force of the moment. She uses the charm of sculptural art through magical techniques to keep splendid moments. It shows the splendor of liquid moments, presenting passion and liveliness in life. The artist imagines a world full of liquids, emerging the charm of liquid inspiring and splashing forms, staying the eternity of the moment and shocking the reverie deep inside.

Dutch Sculptor Pleunie Buyink

Source: Pleunie Buyink

Young Dutch designer Pleunie Buyink displayed "Limber Gems", which she described as elegant interior jewelry made of newly developed materials in which rubber is a key component. The gems are flexible and submissive - molded to sit on the floor or mounted on the wall as a work of art, playing with depth and light. Once the light touches the stones, the interplay between the rough, frayed background, the rough edges, and the warm colors comes into play.

Source: Pleunie Buyink

British Sculptor Jason Mehi

Source: Jason Mehi

Jason Mehi's work is a visual medium that is beyond objects. These meditative tools can reconnect one with an environment that has become increasingly distant due to the limitations of artificial space. Erosion, decay, growth processes, and the passage of time, each unique piece aims to recreate moments of discovery; intriguing things that capture our attention, and things that are familiar but not easily defined. It cannot be seen as a piece in isolation but requires us to imagine what else is there. Are parts missing? Is it a remnant of something larger? If so, what is it?

Italian Artist Matteo Mauro

Source: Matteo Mauro

Italy-based Matteo Mauro is a Return on Art contract artist who combines analog and digital tools to create artwork with a distinctly contemporary style. His fascinating sculptures draw from the Italian artistic heritage, but offer a refreshing take on the classic genre.

The artist does not limit himself to sculpture, however, as Matteo Mauro's studio creates artworks in a wide range of vehicles, including paintings, video art, installations and AR (augmented reality) works.

Matteo Mauro's sculptures are made of bronze and resin. He believes that resin can only convey "form" while bronze brings both "form" and "verve". The resin artwork can be viewed and provides a pleasurable visual experience, while the bronze artwork speaks to you spiritually.

The sculptures are full of classical elements and he feels a connection to Italy's glorious art history, something he has been tapping into in his studio. Still, he is also creating works that seem disconnected from history and are more influenced by the current trend of new art.

Source: Matteo Mauro

American Sculptor Mike Fields

Source: Mike Fields

Sculptor Mike Fields is an accomplished sculptor. His sculptures include both realistic wildlife and design-oriented modern abstract sculptures, with particular attention to proportion, composition, detail and taste. So when he extended from figurative to abstract sculpture, his proportions, and sculptural "accuracy," his forward-thinking design and superb craftsmanship were still astonishing, and they stood out among contemporary art.

Mike Fields established himself as a successful sculptor at a young age, learning technique and form design from his father in his teens, and throughout his career, he has never compromised on the quality of his artistry, with each of his works requiring almost 500 to 2000 hours to complete, accompanied by the artist's subjective thought and objective He injects his soul into each piece, whether his work is called "art" or "commodity", in any case, he has gradually formed his own style and has been implementing it, and has been fully recognized by art collectors and art dealers.

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Looking to revamp your hotel lobby? Got a growing art collection that needs some new pieces? Something else entirely? We're here to help. 

At SOA Arts, we have over a decade's worth of experience in producing, commissioning, and curating sensational art sculptures from around the world. Whether you're scratching your head and wondering where to start or know exactly what you're looking for, get in touch today and we'll be happy to help!