Another amazing artist from Flow Art Station. This one scupts glorious shapes that tell their own story…from books. Gobsmackingly good!
Brian Dettmer Uses Surgical Tools To Carve Books Into Intricate Sculptures
New York-based Artist Brian Dettmer creates impressively intricate multi-layered sculptures from books. The artist calls himself the Book Surgeon because he uses knives, tweezers, and surgical tools to carve the art works out of old medical journals, illustration books, dictionaries, map books and encyclopedias. The bigger the book, the better – The Surgeon doesn’t add anything additional to the sculptures, he only folds, bends, rolls, stacks, and, of course, removes.
“Images and ideas are revealed to expose alternate histories and memories,” explains Dettmer in the artist’s statement. “My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception.”
More info: briandettmer.com
May 8th, 2018 at 11:34 am
Amazing!
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May 8th, 2018 at 7:17 pm
😀
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May 1st, 2018 at 3:38 pm
Fantastic! I love how creative people can find new and interesting ways to express themselves and keep us interested. Hugs
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May 1st, 2018 at 8:08 pm
-grin- Me too! And these days those creative people can actually find an audience too. 🙂
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May 1st, 2018 at 7:17 am
Nice to see those old books being re-purposed in such a beautiful way. 🙂
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May 1st, 2018 at 8:08 pm
I did wince at first, but when I saw what he did /with/ those books, I was won over completely. 🙂
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May 2nd, 2018 at 7:12 am
Yeah, me too, but then I told myself that with some books there are far too many print copies, and from the article he only uses those.
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May 2nd, 2018 at 8:52 am
Absolutely. Far better to give an old book a new lease of life in a different form than to have it pulped or burned or thrown into landfill!
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April 30th, 2018 at 10:32 pm
Just one word. WOW!
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May 1st, 2018 at 8:09 pm
lol – YEAH! :D:D
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