Disturbingly realistic
El artista norteamericano Mark Jenkins tiene esta propuesta de escultura urbana hyper-realista a base de figura humana, que me recuerda bastante a lo que hacía George Segal en los 60’s con yeso. Bueno, y una rayita mas surrealista (los personajes de Segal eran terribles por su realidad, estos son terribles por lo realista de su delirio).
Ha de ser un verdadero espectáculo ver el desconcierto de la gente en los primeros días en que estas piezas son dejadas en su lugar…
The artwork of Mark Jenkins inhabits an uncomfortable space, a sort of uncanny valley. His sculptures are almost too realistic. The bodies and clothing of his human-like sculptures are generally inconspicuous. However, the situations the sculptures find themselves in are unsettling. Often installed in public, the people represented by Jenkins’ sculptures seem to care little for their physical safety or social norms – the sculptures interact with public surroundings in ways that are generally unacceptable. Their otherwise normal appearance somehow heightens the tension in his installations. Though Jenkins might create his sculptures in a studio art tradition, they definitely operate with much of the subversiveness of street art…