Hi - this is just a quick thank you note for the many (almost a dozen!) artists who have submitted their art for The Concretely Collection. The editorial board will carefully consider submissions in the next few weeks and will announce the winner shortly.
Welcome to the latest edition of The Concretely Newsletter 🔲.
🔲 The Concretely Collection
I’m looking to build a little collection of concrete sculptures. To get started, starting a quick competition. The winner artwork will become the inaugural piece of the Concretely Collection.
Original, unique work, theme: New beginnings
Budget: $250, including shipping
Shipping + size: needs to be safely shipped to San Diego, CA
Submission deadline: Aug 15 Aug 31, 2022
To submit work, please email the title, year, size, material of work and 2-5 high resolution photos of the piece to info@theconcretely.com with the subject line “Concretely Collection“. One artwork per artist please.
New Art & Artists
We’ve just passed 210 artists on The Concretely - check them all out on the website.
A few artists profiles now have high resolution 🖼 pictures of their work on The Concretely website. Examples:
“The three-dimensionality of the objects offers the viewer the opportunity to rediscover and interpret them again and again. It is a particularly surprising characteristic of the sculptures that they always give a different picture from the hundreds of vantage points that the viewer can take.”
Carola Eggeling: untitled IX - 2011 - cast stone - 25 (h) x 13 (w) x 8 (d) cm
“Tarbet's practice is concerned with the physical materiality of everyday technology. Robin assumes the role of a folk science explorer, which leads him to dismantle, dissect, and distort everyday technologies and appliances. His work combines two–dimensional media, photography, printmaking and live film with three-dimensional sculptural assemblages.”
“Kapu focuses on social pressures, the vulnerability of the individuals and the constraints on the body by the authority, and the psychological effects of these. She constructs them by searching for the opposite formal elements such as mass and line, space and fullness, part and whole relations.”
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Help build the Concretely Collection
I’m looking to build a little collection of concrete sculptures. To get started, starting a quick competition. The winner artwork will become the inaugural piece of the Concretely Collection.
Original, unique work, theme: New beginnings
Budget: $250, including shipping
Shipping + size: needs to be safely shipped to San Diego, CA
Submission deadline: Aug 15, 2022
To submit work, please email the title, year, size, material of work and 2-5 high resolution photos of the piece to info@theconcretely.com with the subject line “Concretely Collection“. One artwork per artist please.
“Earth casting is a way of working whereby I create molds by sculpting directly in the earth where the earth is strong enough to not crumble. Then we put reinforcing steel and then concrete in that trench, let it cure, then dig around it to release it from the earth and then pick it up with the crane and stand it on a foundation.“
Thomas Sayre: Gyre, 1999. 18' × 18' × 150'. Earthcasting (reinforced concrete with iron oxide cast in molds dug from the earth)
ABSID is the sculptural output of Stockholm based artists and architects Maximilian Olsson and André Prusic. Their work combines the use of digital design and manufacturing techniques with traditional crafts to create sculptures that bridge the gap between the physical and the digital world.
ABSID: Untitled, 2022. Concrete cast in lost 3d printed mold.
“Duclos often prefers to work with ordinary objects, turning the mundane into the sublime. Some of his other installations have included a set of seven hand-painted concrete work gloves, collections of glass transportation pallets and a series of mostly concrete pillars, amalgamations of repurposed scraps from around his studio.”
Welcome to the latest edition of The Concretely Newsletter 🔲. We’re back after a short break.
Help build the Concretely Collection
I’m looking to build a little collection of concrete sculptures. To get started, starting a quick competition. The winner artwork will become the inaugural piece of the Concretely Collection.
Original, unique work, theme: New beginnings
Budget: $250, including shipping
Shipping + size: needs to be safely shipped to San Diego, CA
Submission deadline: Aug 15, 2022
To submit work, please email the title, year, size, material of work and 2-5 high resolution photos of the piece to info@theconcretely.com with the subject line “Concretely Collection“. One artwork per artist please.
Leaderboard
The Concretely website now has a section of popular artists in the preceding month. The Concretely leaderboard for the month of June:
“By using the tools and methods of both architecture and sculpture, Matos deliberately places himself at an ambiguous point between the two disciplines. He strips what could be architectural elements off most of their context, inviting its purpose and meaning to become re-evaluated. Matos and Lucas Cantú formed Tezontle(IG, article), a collaborative project, in 2015”
Carlos H. Matos: Glifo, 2022. 10cm x 50cm x 80cm Concrete, aluminum
Welcome to the latest edition of The Concretely Newsletter 🔲. No exhibitions featured this week.
The Concretely Survey
Thank you so very much for filling out The Concretely survey last week. If you haven’t, it’s never too late: fill out here, takes a literal minute. Interesting findings so far:
Most subscribers are artists. This is great to have this community here! So - if you have artist friends, they might also like The Concretely. Only artists make art - but it works best if you also have cheerleaders! If you have a gallerist friend or someone weirdly interested in art in concrete - this is your sign to share the Newsletter with them.
Readers want big and beautiful pictures. We’re planning an version of the newsletter that features one artist through a number of big & beautiful pictures and a quick introduction. If you are interested, use this google form to submit a selection of your best new art that you’d be happy to see on The Concretely:
“The buildings he makes are of an unprecedented sobriety. We see war bunkers, mausoleums, atria, temples, racecourses and buildings that refer to the megalomaniac Nazi architecture of Speer. The corresponding color range is of course limited and, fully in accordance with the subject, only covers the shades and shades of concrete.”
“Recently, I came into contact with concrete as an art form through a two-day 'concrete art class' with artist Marlies Hoevers 🔲and I was sold. The rough and unpolished of concrete versus the soft and cuddly of felt… an interesting combination that works surprisingly well in the small concrete works that result.”
