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Summer is nearly here which means a beach vacation for many people. And you really can’t have a beach vacation without building a sandcastle, or at least admiring the sandcastle work of others while on a beach stroll. Like a lot of people, the sandcastles I built as a kid were nothing too impressive, some sloppily bucket molds of sand or just the giant towers of dripped sand.
“When I started out, I made drawings, 3D sculptures, and performative sculptures,” Wurm says of his varied oeuvre. “I didn’t want to restrict myself to one medium, so, depending on the mood, I focused on one aspect of my work more than the others. Sometimes the public was more interested in the ‘One Minute Sculptures’, other times more in the ‘Fat’ series, but it made no difference to my work.
Building a sandcastle is a craft nearly all of us have tried, yet never mastered. It requires creativity, patience, a steady hand, and close proximity to a sandy beach. That is, of course, unless you're Calvin Seibert. The New York-based artist grew up in Colorado, far from any traditional location to construct sandcastles.
Some would say that building these incredibly complex and detailed sand castles is a complete waste of time. But for architectural genius Calvin Seibert, it’s a way to express his wildest ideas and share them with everybody. New York-based sculptor is known for turning beaches into galleries for the Brutalist architecture: “As I became more aware of architecture in the wider world Brutalism was one of the styles of the moment.
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