Amazing Cityscape Art Made From Unusual Objects
Most of us played with building blocks to create our own make believe buildings and cities. Fortunately, not all of us outgrew this habit. Here are some cityscape artworks made from unusual objects like egg, cookware, and Jell-O. Yes. Jell-O.
Unreal Scene (2008) by Liu Jianhua Photo: cinghialino [Flickr] Photo: cinghialino [Flickr] Chinese artist Liu Jianhua created this cityscape of Shanghai out of poker chips and dice. You can fill in the part about the metaphor of a city's growth and economic development to risk taking, gambling, and chance all by yourself. Part of a solo exhibition at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Italy. More about Liu Jianhua at ArtZineChina | Unreal Scene at designboom San Francisco in Jell-O by Liz Hickok Bay Bridge (2005), San Francisco in Jell-O by Liz Hickok The City (2005), San Francisco in Jell-O by Liz Hickok Liz Hickok and her Twin Peaks in Jell-O, complete with "fog." San Francisco may be prone to earthquakes, but things never seem so jiggly as when artist Liz Hickok made a cityscape of Baghdad-by-the-Bay out of ... Jell-O! San Francisco Cityscape with Cookware On Gold Mountain: Sculptures from the Sierra by Zhang Wang What is it about San Francisco that inspired so many artists? Here's one by Zhan Wang, who used stainless steel pots and pans, as well as silverware to create his cityscape. Egg City I don't know much about the background of this Egg City, but it's doubly eggscellent because it's also the image of a RMB 50 bill!
Biscuit City by Sang Dong In his installation titled "Eating the City," Chinese artist Sang Dong used about 72,000 biscuits, including "digestives, chocolate digestives, rich tea, hobnobs, caramels and fruit shortcake." When his assistant remarked that she wanted to have a biscuit or two after the exhibition was completed but worried whether the biscuits would be stale, Dong had a sage advice: "Go for the ones at the bottom." More at BBC: Link Atlantis Cityscape Artist Gayle Chong Kwan used hundreds of old plastic bottles and food packagings to create a cityscape of the lost city of Atlantis: Link Colour Reading and Contexture by Jacob Dahlgren At first I thought Jacob Dahlgren used books to create this virtual cityscape installation called "Colour Reading and Contexture," but those are actually colored tiles and wooden blocks. Still it's pretty cool! Link Urville by Gilles Tréhin Urville is an island off Côte d'Azur, between Cannes and St. Tropez. If you've never heard of it, that's because it exists only in the mind of a savant named Gilles Tréhin. Gilles started building Urville, named after Durmont d'Urville, a French scientific base in the Antarctic, when he was 12. Now, he has hundreds of detailed drawings, as well as a "historical" narrative on the founding of the city. Link Previously on Neatorama: 10 Most Fascinating Savants in the World Cityscape II by Grace Grothaus For her exhibition titled "Uncharted Terrain," Grace Grothous made an imaginary topographic landscale out of discarded circuit boards. The little buildings are the circuitries that are part of the boards! Link Jerusalem Sphere by Frank Meisler Jerusalem Sphere, replica of "Jerusalem Fountain" by Frank Meisler Photo: Jerry [Picasa] Inspired by ancient maps showing Jerusalem as a circular city, Frank Meisler created this sculpture of the city in the form of a sphere. It is a replica of the Jerusalem Fountain, commissioned by the King Solomon Hotel. Link RPM-1200 "Junk City" by Enoki Chu Photo: Keizo Kioku Photo: Yuto Kirakakiuchi Japanese artist Enoki Chu created his futuristic cityscape out of polished old drill bits and machine parts: Link Bonus: CityScape Coat Hanger If you love cityscape art, then you'll dig these CityScape Coat Hangers by sixxis. These laser-cut coat hangers are illustrated with the skylines of five cities: Link If you have anything to add, I'd love to hear about it in the comment section! |