10 Sculptors from Brazil and around the world who choose different materials to demonstrate their art and emotion

Sculpture is an ancient art. Working with the relief of materials has always been a craft that requires vision, skill and creativity. This creativity led some of these artists to abandon clay, marble, wood and glass patterns. They went further and chose to demonstrate their artistic vision through more unusual materials. The result of their work is jaw-dropping.

O awesome.club had the pleasure of putting together these curious, intriguing works to show you that beauty can be found in anything.

Josh Brooke Coté specializes in the art of sculpture. His materials, by choice, are wires, recycled copper wires and recycled aluminum wires.

With the use of negative space and the natural linearity of the wires, he makes works that look like pencil drawings taken from paper.

Chakaia Booker brings her abstract art in the form of tires, which is considered an “aesthetic response to the urban landscape of New Jersey”.

Inspiration for her work comes from her African heritage. The stripe pattern on the tires represents the scarification and body painting that was and still is present in some African cultures.

Maurizio Savini is an Italian sculptor known worldwide for his works in pink bubblegum finished in formaldehyde.

It sounds strange, but to him it’s the most versatile material available. It is easy to handle when warm and can be cut with a knife, just like clay.

Nathan Sawaya’s work is characterized by the creation of mosaics and large-scale three-dimensional models of everyday items using Lego bricks.

His exhibition “The Art of the Brick” toured the world with its thousands of pieces and even passed through some Brazilian states a few years ago.

Jennifer Maestre uses a common element in her works: the pencil. She cuts them into small pieces, cuts a hole, and then sews them together.

She says she is inspired by the shape of sea urchins, which have thorns that are so dangerous, yet so beautiful that they encourage the desire to play, despite the consequences.

David Mach doesn’t work exclusively with iron hangers, but part of his work is made from them.

The artist says he doesn’t work with bronze. He works with a material without style, the hangers, because they are something that you don’t think of any other use. And so, he ends up reaching another audience.

The sculptures by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto are made up of elements in lycra, cotton and polyamide fabric and stuffed with lead balls, polypropylene, spices, beads, foam and herbs, among others.

The union of these elements creates large networks. This mixture of unusual materials with the use of tension, strength, resistance and balance is what sharpens the curiosity of the spectator.

Artist Rogan Brown works with dozens of layers of sheets of paper, representing intricate patterns inspired by organic shapes.

His sculptures make multiple visual references: cellular structures, microbes, corals, fossils, shells, geological structures, topographic maps, among many others. They blend science and art, observation and imagination.

Sayaka Ganz is a Japanese woman who works giving life to plastic objects that are thrown away and the objects she receives as donations.

Raised in Japanese Shinto beliefs, she was taught that all objects and organisms have spirits, and objects discarded before their time would cry into the bin at night.

Young-Deok Seo is a South Korean who specializes in using chains as material in his art to express his critique of society.

The currents in her work are a portrait of a time when thoughts were ignored. Time when we close our eyes, ears and mouths to repress our feelings.

They are all amazing in their own way. And you, do you know any fantastic artists that should be part of our list? And if you were to carve something out of an unusual material, what would it be? Comment with us below.