Bobby White
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Horror is just a word; it’ll never have the impact of the thing it tries to describe. A visual representation of this word would go a lot further, and indeed it does just that in the work of Canadian sculpture David Altmejd. His work looks like it belongs in a fashion shop for creatures of the night, a place where werewolves go to shop. The contrast between the highly decorative and the strangely repulsive makes his work extremely original. “I think about decay not in a negative way, but in the sense of creating a space for things to start growing,” he explains.  The furry, time-ravaged corpse of his giant, for instance, is full of holes and caverns inhabited by birds and squirrels. (Altmejd used taxidermied creatures he purchased on Ebay.) Meanwhile, crystals, plants and sparkling beads seem to be sprouting from the giant’s flesh, which is also punctured with shards of mirrored glass. The end result is something undoubtedly horrific but also strangely glamorous. “I try to make it seductive,” says Altmejd”.
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"Colliding Worlds" of David Altmejd
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