Art should challenge us. Test our beliefs, our prejudices and even our ideas of what we accept to be possible.
Sculptures are an awesome medium for this, as they enable the craftsman to play tricks on the eye and disturb the watcher’s ideas of logic. The below sculpture are just doing that. They make you wonder how can this be real? Challenging the laws of gravity this sculptures have everything, from plain head-cratching sorcery to amazing feats of balance on a grand scale!
See for yourself below, and get ready to be amazed by these perfect and gravity challenging pieces. Also tell us which one is your favorite?
1. Wire Fairies By Robin Wight
2. Floating Stone By Smaban Abbas
3. Coffee Kiss By Johnson Tsang
4. Book Sculptures By Alicia Martin
5. Take My Lighting But Don’t Steal My Thunder By Alex Chinneck
6. The Force Of Nature By Lorenzo Quinn
7. Trans Ī Re By Fredrik Raddum
8. Les Voyageurs By Bruno Catalano
9. Wursa By Daniel Firman
10. Wurf VI By Anna Borgman And Candy Lenk
11. Window With Ladder – Too Late For Help By Leandro Erlich
12. Pentateuque By Fabien Mérelle
13. De Vaartkapoen By Tom Frantzen
14. Balancing Sculptures By Jerzy Kędziora
15. Monte-Meubles, L’Ultime Déménagement – Leandro Erlich
16. Car Sculptures By Gerry Judah
17. Suspended By Menashe Kadishman
18. Pick Yourself Up And Pull Yourself Together By Alex Chinneck
19. Abedo By Emil Alzamora
20. Stone Balancing By Adrian Gray