2015
"Briefcase Guitar" hybrid musical instrument sculpture, assemblage
By Ken Butler
Located in New York, NY
Ken Butler’s hybrid musical instrument sculptures explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, sounds, and altered images. Fun...
Mixed Media
"Drill Case Guitar" Hybrid Instrument Wall Sculpture
By Ken Butler
Located in New York, NY
This guitar-sculpture designed by Ken Butler features a compilation of dials, gauges, wires and knobs. The body of the guitar is an actual plastic drill case. This sculpture has a st...
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Surf Board Guitar" Hybrid Instrument Wall Sculpture
By Ken Butler
Located in New York, NY
This sculpture created by Ken Butler is part guitar part surfboard. It is made in the spirit of absurdity many surrealists embraced using found objects in functional scenarios. signe...
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Machine Gun Guitar III" Hybrid Instrument Wall Assemblage Sculpture
By Ken Butler
Located in New York, NY
Machine Gun Guitar This sculpture created by Ken Butler is part guitar part machine gun. (the gun is a toy). It is made in the spirit of absurdity many surrealists embraced using fou...
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Swim Fin Violin" Hybrid Instrument Assemblage Wall Sculpture
By Ken Butler
Located in New York, NY
This sculpture designed by Ken Butler is part violin part swim fin. It is made in the spirit of absurdity many surrealists embraced using found objects in functional scenarios. Ken ...
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Torso Cello" hybrid musical instrument sculpture, assemblage
By Ken Butler
Located in New York, NY
This cello sculpture created by Ken Butler is part cello mannequin dress form torso. It is made in the spirit of absurdity many surrealists embraced using f...
Mixed Media, Found Objects
Oversize Handmade Guitar Sculpture
Located in Highland, IN
This remarkable piece is an oversize decorative Les Paul style guitar that stands over six feet tall. It makes us think of Claes Oldenberg's playful sculptures and looks like it coul...
Metal
Violin - Collage and assembly in plexi case, Italy 1970s
By Giuseppe Chiari
Located in Napoli, IT
Assemblage, violin, paper collage on board, plexiglass case. Chiari freely uses painting, objects, drawing and collage of photocopies and photographs to create intriguing works. Exhibitions: Back to Future, Glenda Cinquegrana: lo Studio, 17.07-24.09.2013, Milan, Italy Giuseppe Chiari...
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper
Long live the king. Color photograph of a assembled guitars body Sculpture
By Kevin Krag
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Photography helps Kevin Krag to freeze in time his one-of-a-kind sculptures capturing the spiritual dimension, vulnerability, and mortality of his ephemeral...
Color, Archival Pigment
Here I come again. Color photograph of a assembled guitars body sculpture
By Kevin Krag
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In the NX Series, Krag uses guitar necks as the space to recreate the score of a rock and roll song that brings strong personal memories. He marks the notes with nails in the guitar’s fretboard and weaves color threads among them to represent the song’s flow. The guitar as an acoustic object does not exist anymore. The object is a soundless fragment of a broken instrument that — through a mnemonic image of the placement of fingers — is referencing a sound the viewer recreates in his mind. Photography helps Kevin Krag...
Color, Archival Pigment
High II. Limited edition color photograph of a assembled guitars body sculpture
By Kevin Krag
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Photography helps Kevin Krag to freeze in time his one-of-a-kind sculptures capturing the spiritual dimension, vulnerability, and mortality of his ephemeral...
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Osadía. Limited edition color photograph of a assembled guitars body sculpture
By Kevin Krag
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Assembled guitars bodies & necks from rescued guitars (built by the artist) Creating the Ícara I was like an initiation. the work contains about 800 feathers and it has a very rock and roll feel as it reminds us of Lenny Kravitz’s love for feathers and boas. It also explores a rite of passage: leaving Buenos Aires, its music, its flavors and ultimately a remembrance, an homage to a dear Argentine singer-songwriter Gustavo Cerati...
Color, Archival Pigment
