Shadow sculpture

Cautious arranging pieces of junk and scrap waste to create an amazing and detailed shadow art sculptures. A piles of trash you’re left wondering why anyone think of them as an art. There’s really nothing special about them, just a combination of scrap, waste and junk materials that always seems to represent the same thing. But as soon as you lighted the projector, the real masterpiece magically appears in the background. It’s obvious that the artist spends time patiently putting in order…

Anni Laukka is an artist from Finland who combines the play of light and darkness with elaborate sculptural pieces to produce mesmerizing shadow artwork.

Théâtre d'ombres (Theatre of Shadows)

Tim Noble and Sue Webster are British artists who have collaborated together since 1996. These fantastic shadow portraits are part of their latest exhibition “Nihilistic …

I created this image and animation including the creative concept for an issue of Creative Review about the art of illusion. I was inspired be the shadow illusions of Shigeo Fukuda and the work of Cornelia Parker

A bronze piece by Brazilian artist Albano Afonso uses multiple sets of dangling hands that mimic shadow puppetry. Titled “Os Pássaros e o Lobo,” or “The Birds and the Wolf,” the sculpture is illuminated by a light projector, casting dark silhouettes on the wall behind it that resembles a mobile of active animals. In aContinue reading "Dangling Bronze Hands, Albano Afonso’s Mobile Casts Playful Animal Silhouettes"

For many artists, the shadow cast by their work would be an afterthought, but for Diet Wiegman, that is all that he is concerned with.

Aurora is a 32ft light sculpture created for the Little Italy District of San Diego California. The kinetic wind blow outer shell of Aurora is made of hundreds of Polycarbonate panels that are textured to mimic traditional rolled glass and are coated with holographic material called Dichroic. The result is a unique optical effect that changes the reflective color (Bronze> Gold> Green> White) and its transmissive color (Blue> Purple> Magenta> Amber) based on the viewers perspective and…

[youtube Shadow Art & Ceramic Sculpture The shadow art, are unique four dimensional art pieces conceived and created by artist Bassam Al-Selawi & Maysoon Masalha (Jordan) Their unique shad…