Joana Vasconcelos

http://www.joanavasconcelos.com/

Erwin Wurm

—"The act of dealing with sweaters, putting them on and taking them off, is hardly ever perceived consciously. When the object, i.e. the sweater, is stretched so that the body of the wearer can find its way into this envelope, when it shrinks so as to adapt to the body's contours and to create a shape or a lack thereof, an essential plastic process takes place." Erwin Wurm
—"He explores issues such as the thinness craze and obesity, fashion, advertising, the cult of consumerism, whose central fetishes include the private home as well the car. In his approach, anything can become sculpture: actions, written or drawn instructions, or even a thought."—Deichtorhallen
—'In the end, art deals with the difficulty of coping with life - be it by means of a philosophy or a nutritional diet,' Erwin Wurm.

http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists
http://www.postmedia.net/
Erwin Wurm (1954, Bruck an der Mur) lives and works in Vienna.

See also:
House Attack, 2006
The artist who swallowed the world, 2006
Carrying Edelbert Köb (Be nice to your curator), 2006
One Minute Sculpture: "Lehne deinen Kopf an die Wand, denke an Adorno und furze"
Art Basel Fucks Documenta 2006
Instructions for Idleness (v.l.n.r.: Make slow movements; Be indifferent about everything; Fantasize about minimalism; Express yourself through yawning; Think about the void; Never respond; Look silly; Don't Care), 2001
One Minute Sculptures, 1997

Gaetano Pesce

'Montanara' is the name of this couch resembling rocky mountains that are surrounded by waterfalls and peeks.

http://www.gaetanopesce.com/

Taiyo Onorato + Nico Krebs

The Hypocondriac 2004

Tonk = Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
born 1979. collaboration since 2003
studied Photography at the University of Art and Design Zurich
live and work in Zurich and Berlin and elsewhere.
http://www.tonk.ch/

Wyne Veen

http://www.wyneveen.com/

Wyne Veen's photography often "portraits ordinary objects arranged in a mute oddness. Devoid of excess, the sensuous depiction of otherwise unseen objects bathes them with charismatic elegance and underlines the futility of beauty and the relative nature of vanity".

—Why do you spend so much time in bugetstores? (Asked by Onequestioninterview).

Because I appreciate the cheap factory effort that has been put into the products. The objects smell, have sharp edges, aren't suited for their function or are just extremely useless in general, they have ugly colors and you can break them in a split-second. All of this makes them quite tragic but also absurd and funny. The products are never really original, always some half baked reproduction of an existing product from a big(ger) brand. Therefore they reflect a small amount of pretence but not a very credible one. The right kind of failure can be so precious. It shows the passing of time and effort, while something flawless only shows you that it is finished.

She is represented by House of Orange. FInd her also at Myspace / Flickr.

Nina Saunders

1. Never, 1999
2. Sincerely yours, 2007
3. Pure thought, 1996
4. Delicate landscape, 2009

http://www.ninasaunders.eu/

—The cushion bulges have a transformational function, since they can alienate otherwise familiar objects. My work moves between the field of beauty / ugliness, comfort / exclusion, home equity / alienation.
—Chairs are designed to support the human body and thus we identify with them. And as furniture supports specific environments and convey messages about the user's status, ambition and even the sex, age and employment. They have an enormous expressive potential.
—Humor is so important. Ironically, I have had my best laugh in a hospital just before an operation.
—Interviewed in danish by Matilde Digmann.

Born in 1958 in Odense, Denmark, Nina Saunders was trained in Central St Martin's and has since 1975 lived and worked in London. She works with "mutated furniture that has been deprived of their original function, rooms that with her radical intervention are allocated social or ideological statements".

via wrongdistance.
Some images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Farhad Moshiri

1. Armchair and Round Table with Stereos, 2003
2. King Bed with Stereo Pillows, 2003
3. Ashegh Shodam, 2007

http://www.kashyahildebrand.org

—There’s always been an element in my work that’s self-ridiculing. I play with the idea of marketing and commodification, and this feeds my practice. After all, the idea of making work that is about the packaging of art has been there since pop art.
—I find myself focusing more on the art making process rather than whether people understand the work or not. If the response is emotional and immediate, then that’s OK; this can be more powerful.
—My work now is not that obviously critical. I’m using the idea of “happiness” which gives more space for corniness or sarcasm, but sorrow is just sorrow and there’s not a lot you can do with it. —Galerie Perrotin.

Farhad Moshiri was born in Shiraz, Iran, and studied fine arts at CalArts in California. In America he first started experimenting with installations, video art and painting before coming back to Tehran in 1991. He is well known for his ironic interpretations of hybrids between traditional Iranian forms and those of the consumerist and globalized popular culture widespread in his country. Significant works include "General Understanding", "A Dream in Tehran", "Brain", "Silver Portrait on Red" and "Stereo Surround Sofa".—source.

https://www.artsy.net/artist/farhad-moshiri

Benedetta Mori Ubaldini

http://www.benedetta.info/

—'The pieces i do in chicken-wire come from a childlike side of my imagination, what i love is creating installations as three dimensional pictures, the simplicity of this material contains the magical power of transparency that is capable of giving each peace the lightness of an apparition, a ghost like quality, like a trace from memory.'

Images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Yoshimasa Tsuchiya

Deer, Blue mermaid and Unicorn. Woodcarving, polychrome, crystal.

http://yoshimasa-tsuchiya.net/

1977 Born in Kanagawa, Japan
2001 BA, Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music
2003 MA, Conservation Course, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music
2007 Doctorate degree, Conservation Course, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music

via memelodia.

Vincent Olinet

1. Pas encore mon histoire, 2008 (Not yet my story)
2. Je vous aimes tous, 2006 (I love you all)
3. Rouge Santa Barbara, 2009 (Santa Barbara lipstick)
4. L'or forgé a la main (Hand forged gold) 2004
5. Je ne peux pas faire des miracles (I can't make miracles) III, 2007.

http://www.vincentolinet.com/

"The artist's intent is to subvert and play with roles, matter and dimensions. Olinet's fascination for childhood and fairytale, both classic and Walt Disney's, allows him to create fantastical sculptures which are simultaneously attractive and repulsive. His drums recall, from their shape and colour, a playful and circus-like atmosphere, but also hide a darker side to their creation, insomuch as the artist himself defines them as "martial".—Giulio Cattaneo

Vince Olinet (1981) lives and works in Brussels and Singapore.
Some images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Heimo Zobernig

http://www.heimozobernig.com/

—With art I would like to raise questions and as a result produce things that put themselves in question.

Heimo Zobernig's work is a quest for the elemental. He dissects phenomena almost scientifically and presents their components in new constellations. The question is what art can produce.—Museums Quartier.

Drawing on various art histories he questions the principles and conditions which underpin them; challenging and reinterpreting them with a lightness of touch and an economy of material that is at times playful, dry, witty, unsettling and disarming. Born in 1958, in Austria, Heimo Zobernig's work includes sculpture, video, text, painting, installation, architectural intervention and performance. —Tate.

Michael de Lucia

http://www.michaeldelucia.com/

b.1978 December 26, Rochester NY
Rhode Island School of Design BFA 2001
Royal College of Art, Sculpture MFA 2004

Jin Young Yu

http://blog.naver.com/u_jin0

—My works are about the “invisible people.” People who, instead of getting along with others, choose to keep a distance from them, and be invisible or be left alone unconcerned. Instead of trying to fit into the world, they climb into a space of their own and reject other people’s intrusions.
—I was never taught how to do the works I’m doing now. The clear PVC body method is a process I’ve created on my own. Nobody, that I know of, is working with these materials or techniques currently. The faces are also of materials that that sculptors typically don’t use.
—In order to show anywhere in the year I have to be always working. I know there are a lot of other fun things in the world - but if I lose myself in other fun things, I will lose the time to work on my sculptures.
Interviewed by arrestedmotion.

*Images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Laura Splan

http://www.laurasplan.com/
Untitled (Hair) 2008. Artificial hair, cart.

—My work explores perceptions of beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort. I use anatomical and medical imagery as a point of departure to explore these dualities and our ambivalence towards the human body. This juxtaposition creates a response that fluctuates between seduction and repulsion, comfort and alienation.— Laura Splan is a New York based mixed media artist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of California, Irvine where she originally studied Biological Sciences. She received her Master of Fine Art in Sculpture from Mills College in Oakland, CA.

Los Carpinteros

The Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) formed in 1991 and adopted its name in 1994, deciding to renounce the notion of individual authorship and to refer back to an older guild tradition of artisans and skilled laborers. Los Carpinteros is Marco Castillo (1971), Dagoberto Rodríguez (1969), and, until his departure in June 2003, Alexandre Arrechea (1970).—Guggenheim.

Images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Icelandic Love Corporation

1. Places of worship, 2001
2. Freedom Beauty Free time, 1997.
3. Women Good Enough To Eat, 1997

http://www.ilc.is/

Eirún Sigurðardóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir, Dora Isleifsdottir and Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir aka the Icelandic Love Corporation have been making artworks together since 1996.

Yoskay Yamamoto

http://yoskay.com/
http://yoskay.blogspot.com/

"Born and raised in Toba, Japan, Yoskay Yamamoto moved to the United States at the age of 15. A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto's artistic tastes expanded as he fell in love with the urban culture of the West coast. Yamamoto discovered a way to fuse the two different cultural backgrounds together into his work. Yamamoto nostalgically blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements, balancing his Asian heritage with urban pop art."

Note: Originally there is a dress next to Hello Kitty. I removed it to focus on Yoskay's sculptural work. See the original image here and here.

Xavier Veilhan

http://www.veilhan.net/

"Xavier Veilhan (1963, Lyon) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. His work is interdisciplinary and includes photography, sculpture, film, painting and installation art".
via eclecticcow.