Famous Wood Sculpture Artists

There are 6 artists who cross the boundaries of wood

Artists like von Rydingsvard, with their strong, large-format works of art and graceful, minimum or light-hearted shapes, have placed wood as a vital and modern sculptural medium that goes beyond its association with craftsmanship..... In recent years, wood has also become more easily manipulated thanks to the existence of electronic construction and production equipment.

Computer-aided design software, CNC machinery and lasers have extended the range of woodworking options, making them more flexible and cutting down the need for hard-working work. These new generations continue to go to the limit of wood and use a vertiginous diversity of concepts and techniques. In the following, six artists describe their powerful relationship to the materials, despite (and in some cases) its limitations.

With the kind permission of the artists. Kurtz's statues look impossibly like examples of as yet unproved theologies. Their slenderness is often confusing, the wood either ends in minute dots or curls around itself like a band. With the kind permission of the artists. With the kind permission of the artists. The MANGLE is a collaboration between Columbian artists María Paula Alvarez and Diego Fernando Alvarez, who gathered at the Fundación Escuela de Artes y Oficios (School of Arts and Crafts) in Santo Domingo and later marriam.

Even though the pair is a carpenter, many of MANGLE's statues are not immediately recognisable as woodwork. It creates the impression that wood can act like textile, gum or even live plant. The most recent themes include confused extensions, wooden and cement fern and soft wooden grids based on Bogotá's work.

With the kind permission of the artists. Watts' statues seem vague libidinous, like household goods from an sexy orgasm. He undermines the notion that wood is naturally functionally and robust through his work, which is fun and inconvenient. With the kind permission of the artists. "She says that I made my instructors feel anxious when I came near a bench saw, and men in DIY markets are still trying to tell me about wood gluten. Next months they will show inlaid hybrid inlays that combines wood with colour and fotograph.

With the kind permission of the artists. He ascribed his interest in wood to his early years. The Antarmukhi I (2016), that is to say introvert or directed inwards, is a sculpture that stretches both above and below its base of metal.