Janine Antoni, Artist, Bahamian- born American, 1964

Saddle

Rawhide

2000

 

Klaus Kampert, Artist

Artist's Website

https://www.klauskampert.com

Bea Camacho, Artist

Efface

Single-channel video
11 hours
2008

This video documents an eleven-hour performance during which I crocheted myself into a white carpet with white yarn. This project builds on the themes explored in an earlier video performance, “Enclose”, but puts more emphasis on the space around the body, which becomes an integral part of the work as my body slowly disappears into the architecture.

above text from artist's website. Link here. 

Robert Mapplethorpe, Artist, 1946 - 1989, USA

White Gauze, 1984

Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 in Floral Park, Queens. Of his childhood he said, "I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave." 

In 1963, Mapplethorpe enrolled at Pratt Institute in nearby Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. Influenced by artists such as Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, he also experimented with various materials in mixed-media collages, including images cut from books and magazines. He acquired a Polaroid camera in 1970 and began producing his own photographs to incorporate into the collages, saying he felt "it was more honest." That same year he and Patti Smith, whom he had met three years earlier, moved into the Chelsea Hotel.

Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.  Link here. 

Alet Pilon, Artist

Artist's Website

Maia Flore, Artist

Seven morning sculptures, memories of the night when this bed became a boat in the middle of an ocean of sheets.
In each one of these rooms a particular shape was born, an imaginary character rising out of the night, as though fossilized in the room. A last remnant of the dream’s realm, a single fragment of reality that vanished with the coming of the dawn.

The brutality of waking up, first, where we abruptly depart from an interior world, only to be projected into the foreign space of a hotel room. As we open our eyes, before we even set foot on the floor, the strange feeling of not finding your bearings has created these

Rebecca Belmore, Artist

Source is Aboriginal Curatorial Collective.  Link here. 

Asher Levine, Artist

More to see on the website.  Link here.

Link here to watch a short video.

Madame Peripetie, Artist

"‘Madame Peripetie’ aka Sylwana Zybura is a Polish photographer based in Germany. Sylwana explores the boundaries between fashion, sculpture and the human body, experimenting with various fabrics and patterns; whilst infusing high-fashion elements with abstract and conceptual ideas, creating an eccentric escapade of colour and texture. Her inspirations include surrealism and dadaism as well as the new wave era of the 80s and British post punk scene. Alongside her BA studies in photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Art, Dortmund, Germany, Sylwana also collaborates with up-and-coming fashion designers and is experimenting with short stop-motion films."  Source is Face Culture.  Link here.

Artist website link here.

Levi van Veluw

See more work by this artist on their website.  Link here. 

Stephane Fugier

Link here for the artist's website.
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Christo and Jeane-Claude, Artists, Wrapped Trees

This work does not demonstrate a wrapped human body. 

However, there is much to be inspired by for our assignment of Human Body Wrapped. 

Starting on Friday, November 13, 1998, 178 trees were wrapped with 592,015 square feet (55,000 square meters) of woven polyester fabric (used every winter in Japan to protect trees from frost and heavy snow) and 14.3 miles (23 kilometers) of rope. The wrapping was completed on November 22.

Source is the artist's website. Link here for images of Wrapped Trees as well as their other proejects.

William Kentridge, Born 1955, South Africa

A satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on surrealism and the grotesque, with a romantic twist. Written between 1835 and 1836, "The Nose" tells the story of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. "The Nose" was originally published in The Contemporary, a literary journal owned by Alexander Pushkin. The use of a nose as the main source of conflict in the story could have been due to Gogol's own experience with an oddly shaped nose, which was often the subject of self-deprecating jokes in letters. The use of iconic landmarks in the story, as well as the sheer absurdity of the story, has made "The Nose" an important part of St. Petersburg's literary tradition.

Liu Bolin, Artist

No photoshop here. 

The artist applies paint to the human figure 

and then the person is placed in the environment. 

Bon Jovi Album - look closely to see band members. 

A video on artist website in making of the Bon Jovi image. 

Artist Website

https://www.liubolinart.com/blank-2

Alexander McQueen, Fashion Designer, 1969 - 2010, United Kingdom

Miranda July, Artist, American, b. 1974

For this series of photographs Miranda July's book 'No one belongs here more than you' was dissected. Her imaginary and witty language triggered the images dealing with states of emotions from unexpressed anger to reckless abandon. Collaboration with Anja Schaffner. More on website. Link here.

I called out to my own heart, as if she were within me like an egg.

It is as if our feet are in the perfect, honest, loving relationship but from the ankles up, we are lost.

Now the ball was in his court, it was his job to do with me what he would. 

What would he do?

My unexpressed anger at nothing in particular. 

And: The feeling that there is a next level and I should be on it.

Tiny ropes of Misery.

Clara Wicke, Artist

0 0 1 1 04 01 08 0 9003 is an amazing installation by Clara Wicke in Wiesbaden that consists of eight bodies hanging from the ceiling encased in a white gauze-like fabric. Who are they? Why do they float above? What has arrested their flight? Angels, conscience, random thoughts at rest? Are they memories or part of that dream state when you feel you are flying? From MocoLoco. Link here for more images of this work as well as more art.