Wax sculpture

Rebecca Stevenson

"Candle wax sculpture of a girl in a hospital bed by Lenn Cox & Jp Scheen. #inspiration Via…”

Urs Fischer.

All wax. Artist: Urs Fischer

Petah Coyne

Dichotomies flourish in Petah Coyne's practice as she suspends silk bouquets, twigs, and artificial taxidermy in specially formulated wax.

Top-down Bottom-up is an installation with four dripping machines and 800 kg of beeswax. During the course of the exhibition four stalagmites of wax will arise on the floor of the museum. The dripping machines are suspended from the ceiling and are refilled with new rods of wax two times a week.The work was developed for the exhibition Exploded View and commissioned by the Centraal Museum in Utrecht.

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Alain Elkann Interviews Urs Fischer, Swiss born sculptor and contemporary artist

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Using polyester resin and wax, Rebecca Stevenson creates delicate sculptures with baroque flourishes. Flowers and heirloom tomatoes blossom from the heads and bodies of her human and animal subjects like the ornamental flora in Italian Renaissance paintings. The floral growths sometimes appear as adornments on the living body, but in some of her works, they look like the agents of decomposition and regeneration. Take a look at some of Rebecca Stevenson's work after the jump.

From the Morbid Anatomy book "The Anatomical Venus." Photo by Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy Museum.

with designs by richard yasmine and nada debs, the candle project collection by house of today explores and challenges the properties of wax.

These images show the results of some recent experiments using wax and water. To achieve the structures I filled a container with hot melted wax, weighted it so it would sink, then dropped it into …

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