I stumbled across the work of Mark Jenkins a couple of days ago, and was immediately taken with the wonderful, funny, surreal and often deeply serious ideas in his work. Also the fact that it is such a public form of art. Not for him the secluded and almost religious atmosphere of an art gallery, nope, his work is placed in public places all over the world.
His work for the greater part, simply stated, consists of statues of human beings, dressed in normal clothing, but placed in some very strange situation – Leaning against a wall, with its head apparently buried in the wall such as this one below…..
With a lot of his more or less “realistic” work, it is actually pretty hard to be sure it is in fact a statue, and not simply one or more people behaving rather oddly, as you can see from the images below…
I love this one! She is not real…..
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