Hanging sculpture

While Dutch artist Joris Kuipers spent years studying traditional painting and fine art techniques at both the Arnhem Academy and the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, his installations fly in the face of anything traditional. While borrowing from ideas rooted in expressionism as far as the application of paint and use of color, the artist constructs large-scale installations that spiral and twist off the walls, blurring the lines between painting and sculpture. Two of his most recent works…

Argentinian artist and designer Cristián Mohaded, has created 'Floating Towers', a group of hanging modern woven sculptures.

The new University of Nebraska Medical Center at Kearney asked me to design a hanging sculpture that related to the… Read More

These cement figures dangling from umbrellas within a narrow space inside the EBC office center in Prague are part of a installation titled Slight Uncertainty by Czech artist Michal Trpák. Check out much more of his sculptural work on his website.

Peter Gentenaar, a paper artist based in the Netherlands, creates ethereal, large-scale sculptures of organic shapes that float in mid-air as they hang from the ceilings. Some look like aquatic plant life while others resemble the qualities of bright, delicate spring flowers. Gentenaar's craft evolved from his love for paper, a passion he acquired from the many years he spent working in a printmaking shop. His unusual, stunning work defies conventional thinking regarding paper's colloquial…

So simple...but so cool. This was hung over a stairwell so that you could look at it from the second floor, and also from below, on the stairs.

Strange fruit Installation is a unique hanging sculpture by the British artist Chris Day created from hand blown and sculpted glass with steel, hessian cord, reclaimed electrical wire and butchers hooks. Growing up in the West Midlands, Day has become Britain’s only black glassblower, or certainly the only one that the artist is aware of. He creates highly personal works in glass and mixed-media and his intention is to discuss and investigate the treatment of black people in Britain and the…

Cornelia Parker is known for her poetic transformation of existing materials, which she achieves through processes that are both physical and conceptual. With an elegant sculptural hand she constructs works that function as richly evocative metaphors. Hanging… more

Hanging sculpture

We take a look at the history of origami and 11 contemporary origami artists, from Robert J. Lang to Sipho Mabona, who are masters of paper folding.