Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer

I've noticed that 2D artists/non-sculptors who engage in strange mediums or techniques generally only make realistic closeup portraits of people. I saw the headline, thought "neat, but I bet he just makes normal expressionless faces." Opened the page and it seems like that's the vast majority of his work. As an artist myself, I'm always like ehhhhh when I see this. Feels a bit like the kind of stuff you see for sale in tourist areas.

The technique is cool though.

In Exhibition section Lasting Moment is showing 4 glass sheets standing parallel to each other.

It looks like the cracks are same on all 4 sheets. That is amazing. Their are only 4 pictures though. I want to see them more closely.

Edit: while looking for more photos found more work here. The 3D effect by layering sheets is so cool. https://aurum.gallery/simon-berger/ I like the sphere more than the skull.

Edit: Found some more pictures of those sheets with same cracks in his Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/C_34-G0K-Qm/?igsh=MWtzY2FydWQxa2...

Reminds me of the artist that shipped glass cubes via FedEx, letting the box throwers make the art for him.

https://museemagazine.com/features/2018/10/15/walead-beshty-...

I’ve seen a lot of his work IRL, he was one of the artists at the now (sadly) defunct Aurum Gallery where I was a regular visitor.

For better or worse, he’s mostly know in the “street/urban art” world (which is much bigger than graffiti). And one of the features of a lot of the art in that scene is high technical mastery paired with “low” / populist motifs and composition.

Seen up close these works are really quite amazing, and I respect the artist choosing to make the things that can make him a living. Even Brice Marden, at some point, just kept making those trademark squiggles and cashing those checks.

This could be a really cool practical effect in a movie. Imagine the protagonist of a horror movie walking through their house when suddenly a mirror breaks and it's a face watching them.

Is it all it's cracked up to be?

Could you do this in 3d? Like a iceblock, with cracks running through it, the cracks forming a 3dimensional statue?

I went into this fully expecting that I was going to be outraged that someone can trash glass and call it art, but it actually is!

Although I liked the video of the artist working, I didn't appreciate that they took away the controls to pause, play, seek. Is there a workaround to get back the playback controls on websites that disable it?

I would like to be wealthy enough to commission even a small piece for my home! Looks amazing. He must be using some special kind of glass

Our world is full of creative, inspirational people. Bravo!

Could this be automated, some type of "printer" that breaks layers of glass?

Interesting to consider how different mediums are mechanically reproducible to varying degrees as AI and automation grow more capable.

In terms of artistic merit, it reminds me of https://gillieandmarc.com/collections/sesame-street-drop

Technique is undoubtedly interesting, but content....

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing

Ok that’s awesome

That dude hits the nail on the head with those portraits.

I did notice art as a profession, or people calling themselves artists, are usually within Europe, but rarely in North America. Whenever I stumble upon an art or artist portfolio online, I assume they are in Europe, and most times it turns out to be true. My theory is that the system in Europe allows people to nurture their creative side, meanwhile in North America it's a hyper-capitalistic system and society where you are always running away from some beast -if not debt, it is rent, if not taxes, it's something else- making people run like hamsters on wheels with zero space for disconnection and solitude. And if you managed to make something cool, suddenly you are pressured to grow and expand and look for investors and whatnot. Even job-wise, in the US for example, there's this hustle culture where you are somewhat expected to keep grinding after work, and if you don't, you are either seen as less productive, a slacker, or even terminated for performance issues. If you decide to quit, you might end up homeless, so you are in this never-ending cycle where your life is about grinding and being busy with what's considered "productive".

Not to dismiss the rest of the world, but my focus was on the western side, not so sure how it goes in other parts of the world.

AI bros in the comments criticizing a real artist, lol.

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Happy for him but this has no real artistic meaning compared to doing it in any other way. Odd to see things like that on HN.