BEAUTY: Sculpture For Halloween--Tomáš Libertíny

Artist Tomáš Libertíny (previously here) uses bees as collaborators on amazing sculptural projects and this set of skulls was inspired by a painting by Caravaggio. The artist explains:

I have took upon working on a series of heads based on the framework of skulls themed as memento vivere as opposite to memento mori. This work is based on the famous story from the New Testament in which the daughter of Herod requests the head of imprisoned John The Baptist. Inspired by the famous painting of Caravaggio Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (c. 1607), the bronze colored serving tray carries a human skull “made by bees”. The honeycomb head is growing out of the dish as if wanting to become alive again. Left longer in the beehive, the head would have become completely human. The process is the reversal of death. I have experienced personal sacrifices and losses in my life that I did not understand the meaning of. We are given time and place in our universe. We are given gifts and purpose which we need to find like tools in the shed. We have so little time to wonder about the magnificent world around us.

The first skull below with the pinkish hue, attained by adding harmless coloring to the hive, is John the Baptist.

The next one, Feed Your Head, was inspired by a lyric from the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit"
 about Alice In Wonderland.

Finally, Tomáš created Pain Au Amour (Bread of Love), showing a skull mounted a baker's peel.

http://www.tomaslibertiny.com/

BEAUTY: Sculpture--Tomáš Libertíny

Slovakian-born artist Tomáš Libertíny now has a studio in Rotterdam where he works with bees to collaborate on sculptures. His work reminds me of Aganetha Dyck who also uses the handiwork of bees to alter and distort traditional figurative ceramic sculptures.

Libertíny created the agonizing piece entitled The Unbearable Lightness out of resin and beeswax, seen below.

Libertíny also creates other beeswax objects, most made from the honeycomb itself, like these vessels, below.

http://www.tomaslibertiny.com/