Charcoal sculpture

Italian sculptor Aron Demetz (cousin of Gehard Demetz, whose work we featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 22) creates wood sculptures that appear distressed, burnt and scarred. The process of working with wood is a fundamental part of Demetz's aesthetic — instead of presenting polished and perfected works, Demetz celebrates the wood's textures and its transformation through various natural processes. The simplified, abstracted human figures can seem like personifications of the wood itself. Demetz…

Now in it’s 15th year, the contemporary art fair will take place on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of July (preview on Friday 7th) at Hotel Granvia Osaka. | 2017.7.8sat - 9sun [ Preview: 7.7fri ] | HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA, 26th Floor

Katsuhiko Narita

With an Internet so wide and fast moving, it takes something really astounding to stop a person in their tracks. When we stumbled across Aron Demetz's art online, our activities came to a screeching halt. Aron's work has that effect - it is so insanely original and visually rich that it demands that all your

Pencil and ink on paper - In reverse colors (Negative drawing) 28 cm x 28 cm January 2014. www.facebook.com/artsderek Monument - Montmartre Cemetery

Painted bronze and Portland stone. Edition of 9 + 1 A.C. Artist Guy Haddon Grant is one of Britain’s most important young sculptors. His aesthetically fascinating works are inspired by natural organic forms and the human figure. With works made from treasuries of raw substances, including charcoal, plaster, stone, bronze, and wood, material is paramount to the artist’s most powerful means of expression. Haddon Grant uses charcoal in his sculptures, powdered and mixed with resin to become…

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