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With a fascination for the human body merged with a synthetic aesthetic, artist Rein Vollenga is the man behind these incredibly visceral sculptures. The Dutch born artist has been exhibited in both museums and galleries, as well as collaborated with several different performers and fashion designers. The result of the latter has been a collection of Wearable Sculptures.
Easily assumed to always have existed as the perfected forms that are the result of Rein’s hard work, the lengthy and intense craftsmanship involved is quite opposite to the sleek high gloss surfaces that are the end result.
With a passion for the specialty of one of a kind works, the pieces he creates are partly assembled out of mass-producedfound objects that we might recognize from our daily lives and exist only as unique Haute Couture pieces. The intrigue for objects that both refer to the language of industrial manufacturing as well as the natural, are what make up his materials, the assemblages then get coated inhand-moulded resin. Using this process he modifies the literal functions of the individual object into a piece that speaks to the imagination.
Previous clients include among others Mugler, Lady Gaga, New Power Studio, Cassette Playa, 2NE1 and Hanayo. Wearable Sculptures have been shown during the London and Paris Fashion Weeks and featured in Dazed, i-D, V Man, V, NY Times, Vogue Italia, Sang Bleu, Showstudio and Style.com. His sculptures have been exhibited at Kunsthall Oslo, Gallery West in The Hague, Neues Museum, Berlin, September, Berlin and Jan Cunen Museum, Oss.
Rein Vollenga currently lives and works in Berlin.
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source: designcollectornet
Dutch-born sculptor Rein Vollenga‘s work has been displayed in worldwide galleries and touted by the likes of Lady Gaga. Vollenga regularly transgresses the traditional boundaries of sculpture by producing tangible and wearable pieces for a whole host of fashion brands – Mugler, New Power Studio and Cassette Playa – as well as magazines, including Dazed & Confused.