Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Unmask Group

Photographs and paintings often give us a full representation of the subject.

 

 

If we are all more than the sum of our parts, what are we if parts of us are missing?

 

 

Can we be ever-so-much-more by showing ever-so-much-less?

 

 

Or, more likely, what if we are more than just one thing?

 

 

The Beijing-based group known as Unmask Group has managed to not only honor the human form through sculpture, but added a new twist to its visual appeal by subtracting redundant parts from the sculptures.

 

 

I am amazed that so much can be said with so little.

 

 

Liu Zhan, Kuang Jun and Tan Tianwei met while at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and have been producing sculptural work together since 2001.

 

 

More wonderful art from the Masked Group can be found at

http://designcollector.net/sculptures-by-unmask/ and http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/dissolving-figurative-sculptures-by-unmask/.

See if you can decide which parts of you are shown, which parts have been cut away, and which parts have been melded with someone or something else.