There are dozens of artists doing stuff like this -- many of them world-famous and exhibiting in big galleries. Unless you think they are all photoshopped and that they have falsely claimed exhibits in real galleries and that no one has noticed, there's no reason to think these aren't real. I hate that the default position because of the internet is that if something is amazing it must be photoshopped.

I think this comment was photoshopped from one saying that these things must be fake.

Are you implying that Raul's comment is amazing?

aaand this is why i love the internet

but it doesnt love you back.

The internet is the shadow. That's what makes this so amazing.

And that makes the world dead birds & garbage?

pretty much.

That's actually pretty deep. The shadow of its users. In reality, it's the whole picture cast by the people of earth...

deep like the depth of this thread?

In one point of view. I'm sure there are many lenses which people choose to view the world or the humanity in it.

fuck the internet, I quit, and everyone is gonna care about me quitting cuze I said so "gets no likes"

mkay then.

INTERNET~!!

the Internet is in fact an experiment done by aliens to see if humans are advanced enough to be transported to a paradise planet forty million light years away. Hey. How about those pretty pictures?

Maybe this whole conversation was photoshopped.

I think they are. Ca Caa

Well this has gone no where.

i dont think this was faked

It's not a photoshop, it's far more simple but clever than that. A few ways to do it but basically you project the shadow on the wall of the image you want to appear and then build your sculpture so that it's contained within the shadow of your main image.

Do this by (most easily) just taking a picture of people in their pose, use photoshop to just turn the picture into a silhouette and then use a display projector to pop that 'shadow' image on the wall. You could also create a slide manually by the old-school method of hand cutting the paper silhouette either from an actual picture or if you're real good you could technically do it by eye (which is a real artform) and then using a projector to cast it's shadow.

These are certainly real pictures of the gallery and aren't photo shopped after the fact but I certainly don't believe that they fully crafted the sculptures to cast the shadow itself, they simply crafted the statues to fit within the real shadow that was being projected.

I think you're wrong in your assumption. It seems a lot simpler to me. If you look carefully, you can see wire frames of the projected images, underneath the"stuff"; in several of them you can make out the image in the sculpture itself.

Actually, you said basically the same thing, I believe: I was replying to a different comment: sorry! I don't know HOW they did it, but I can see WHAT. I am an artist myself, so I look at stuff like this in painter mode. That makes it easier to see the hidden image(once you see them, the illusion is gone, tho', like a magician's trick!).

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how it's done. If they are using a projector hooked up to a computer they can actually edit the projected shadows in real time. Art is about the result more than the means. Just like music, you're looking for an emotional response and to make a statement, if the technicality of a musical work results in an ugly sounding mess that no one appreciates then it's more worthless than a simple version of jingle bells played on a wal-mart floor model of a $30 toy keyboard that brings folks together in a sing-along. This is a great example, it's extremely clever and I actually appreciate the illusion (assuming it is just an illusion) rather than the real deal. If it were real, I'd just think of the time they wasted focusing on the technical execution when more profound statements can be made by having more freedom within both the shadow and sculpture mediums.

Exactly. If the focus is on the delivery system, instead of the result, the meaning is lost.That being said, considering the large variety of reactions to these works: the opposing views; the assumptions; the debates about execution, etc., maybe that is the artists' point: the medium is the message: maybe that is the "meaning". These piece certainly aroused a wide spectrum of emotional reactions … Just a thought. Personally, the gimmicky aspect wears thin after awhile for me. A little goes a long way.

I think art is about the means and the result, not just the result, but it depends what your process is. I'm an artist too - nice to meet you fellow artists :) - and when I make some sculptures it is very important to me how I create it... the process is the most important part... but then the result is important too at the end.... then in other pieces, I love the process and the means and just use them to get the result I want. So it varies. I agree it's really clever and interesting :) I think it could have been done without the dead animals though!!!!

yup!

the viewer side of the garbage is not in a shadow, which means a full light it on them, the shadow is cast by the objects

Well said!

yes there are! this is similar to what i was doing in artschool! gahh!

This takes "One person's trash is another person's treasure" literally! Love it!

Fantastic remark! I admire your spirit and talent!

i loved this until i saw the dead cat....booo

I highly doubt they went out and killed a cat for it, calm down.

I'm sure they didn't kill a cat or any animal for it either, but just the fact that they were using dead animals was disgusting in itself; is what I believe vera meant. Just saying.

Gotta love the pun. Intentional or not, I still spit my soda out my nose.

I say intentional as it is generally strange to refer to a woman as a " pussy" in the cowardly way.

yeah one love alright

i did not see any use of cat in the descriptions... weasel, fox and a bunch others tho :(

DEAD THINGS, 2010
1 black cat, 19 crow heads, 4 rook heads, 5 jackdaw heads, 13 crow legs/feet, a pair of crow wings, a pair of jackdaw wings, 6 juvenile black rats, 1 x chaffinch (male), metal stand

Yeah... it blows alright, just NOT my mind.

Not a fan huh?

stunning, original mind bending stuff. really really beautiful. would love to be in the room with them.

Had the opportunity once with 'Dirty white trash with gulls' and it really is extraordinary

not original at all ..Shigeo Fukuda deserves the credit as the artist that created this artform

if the person who created an artform was the only one worthy of its credit, then painters, sculpters etc are stuffed as well.

I bet they smell like shit.

they do, but only from one angle, from the other angle they're quite fragrant.

hahahaha

The smell was added in using "odorshop"