One man's trash is Gubin's treasure
Imagine a gigantic caterpillar processing tons of wooden waste as it slithers through the streets of the big apple. A bug as ravenous as the imagination of Mikhail Gubin, the artist behind a collection of visionary sculptures.
That’s right, the imagination of Gubin (1953) has the shape of a very rare caterpillar that feeds on trash, fattens at every city block it passes, and, after having digested, expels elaborate abstract sculptures.
Miniature worlds of wood, paper and acrylic that resemble pulsing cities or the remains of animals that have exploded in the digestive tract of an imaginary slithering creature.
Everything from Queens to Manhattan is an enormous goldmine of material for artist Mikhail Gubin, who breathes new life into parts of furniture, abandoned toys and other trash by reassembling the pieces and decorating them with paint and chisel.
Ukraine-born naturalized American Gubin is no new name in the world of art. Born in the Spring of ’53, year of Joseph Stalin’s death, the artist defines himself an autodidact.
Up to the Perestroika he never managed to show his work except at illegal and underground exhibitions, so-called “apartment exhibitions”. Since obtaining citizenship in the U.S. in 1995, Gubin has had 30 solo exhibitions and more than 200 group shows.
Photos via gubinart.com
That’s right, the imagination of Gubin (1953) has the shape of a very rare caterpillar that feeds on trash, fattens at every city block it passes, and, after having digested, expels elaborate abstract sculptures.
Miniature worlds of wood, paper and acrylic that resemble pulsing cities or the remains of animals that have exploded in the digestive tract of an imaginary slithering creature.
Everything from Queens to Manhattan is an enormous goldmine of material for artist Mikhail Gubin, who breathes new life into parts of furniture, abandoned toys and other trash by reassembling the pieces and decorating them with paint and chisel.
Ukraine-born naturalized American Gubin is no new name in the world of art. Born in the Spring of ’53, year of Joseph Stalin’s death, the artist defines himself an autodidact.
Up to the Perestroika he never managed to show his work except at illegal and underground exhibitions, so-called “apartment exhibitions”. Since obtaining citizenship in the U.S. in 1995, Gubin has had 30 solo exhibitions and more than 200 group shows.
Photos via gubinart.com
15 November 2011
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