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Japanese artist En Iwamura's fanciful sculptures are a holiday for the mind

Creative Boom

Japanese artist En Iwamura 's response invokes a sense of lively and wondrous innocence with his paintings, sculptures, and installations, which take the viewer on something approaching a holiday for the mind. Both of these works are on show at a solo exhibition at WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong, entitled URLANDSCHAF (26 May 26 to 7 July).

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The Creative Boom 2023 Christmas gift guide for creatives

Creative Boom

We've got a selection of quirky and beautiful gift ideas that will raise your present-buying above the generic and propel your imagination. Because all of us love the idea of buying presents in theory – 'tis better to give than to receive, as they say – in practice, we often struggle to devote enough time to it.

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Thousands of Brushstrokes: Antonio Santín’s New Rug Paintings

Design Milk

This month in New York, artist Antonio Santín presents shockingly hyperreal oil paintings that depict life-size undulating ornate rugs. On view at Marc Straus Gallery , each painting is a surprising illusion of a carpet in 3D space, but up close, they’re even more impressive. Detail photographs by David Behringer.

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Elias Sime Weaves Connections Between Ancient Ethiopian Craft Traditions and Today’s Technology

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All images shared © Elias Sime, courtesy of GRIMM and James Cohan Gallery, shared with permission Thousands of microchips, terminals, nails, letter keys, and lengths of wire transform into spectacular, monumental sculptures by acclaimed Ethiopian artist Elias Sime. Photo by Lisa Whiting Photography.

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Ant Hamlyn preserves memories, magic and mythology in his series of fabric flower sculptures

Creative Boom

Contemporary London-based artist Ant Hamlyn has explored the rich history and symbolism surrounding flowers in his latest exhibition, Love, Death & Velvet , where floral fabric sculptures are pressed underneath giant slabs of perspex. Made in himself in his studio, Ant describes the sculptures as a real labour of love.

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Jeffrey Gibson’s Ecstatically Colorful Sculptures Fuse Modernist Aesthetics and Indigenous Traditions

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“My Joy My Joy My Joy” (2021), acrylic felt, polyester fiber fill, pyrite, glass beads, sea glass, vinyl sequins, white abalone shell, metal base, nylon thread, aluminum sculpture wire, and artificial sinew, 16.5 × 13.3 × 22 inches. Installation view of ‘The Body Electric’ at SITE Santa Fe, 2022.

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Design Miami: Highlights from our Camera Roll

Azure Magazine

This is especially apparent in South Beach, where Ocean Drive presents a long row of art deco hotels splashed in pastel shades and illuminated by bright neon signage. Elsewhere in the Miami Design District , UK-based Bohinc Studio’s bubbly Utopia seating sculptures were another eco-conscious delight.

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