Yuichi ikehata

the series 'fragment of LTM' (long term memory) by yuichi ikehata relays a futuristic feeling that our bodies may not be what they seem.

Japanese sculptor and photographer Yuichi Ikehata (Kakuunohito) creates these beautiful and haunting sculptures. They are made out of a wire structure, which he covers with a mixture of paper and clay, leaving part of it exposed and the other part painted to look realistic enough, to convey emotions. The looks on the faces of these sculptures are not happy ones, they look like they are depicting scenes of struggle and suffering. The hand clasping the foot, has to be one of the most evocative…

these are real sculptures by @kakuunohito. the artist uses wire, paper and clay forms, to carefully sculpt into anatomical frameworks of human arms, legs and heads – fusing digital and physical components to form surreal portraits see all the pieces on #designboom. #yuichiikehata #art #sculpture

Sculptures of Decomposing Body Parts by Yuichi Ikehata

Here is a portrait of my young sister. Here I am using “Kintsugui”, a traditional Japanese technique witch consist in fixing an object with gold to make it even more beautiful than it was before. It means that the fact of breaking the object is just an event in its life and that he get more and more precious as the time passes. The point here is to use the crack as an ornament and not as a accident.

Yuichi Ikehata combines photography, sculpture, and digital editing to create hybrid works that meld together reality and his own fictionalized interpretation. The eerie humanoid forms are pierced with holes that reveal rudimentary structures below their plaster-like skin, making each appear to be in varying states of decay. To create these digital manipulations, Ikehata first photographs hisContinue reading "Wire Sculptures of Hands and Faces Come to Life When Overlaid with Digital Elements…

Yuichi Ikehata is a Japanese photographer and sculptor who uses 3D softwares to make impressive digital sculptures : body’s parts looking like skeletons, organic shapes of fossils and also tortured...

the series 'fragment of LTM' (long term memory) by yuichi ikehata relays a futuristic feeling that our bodies may not be what they seem.

Surreal and haunting, Yuichi Ikehata creates works that begin as figurative wire sculptures and garner new life via digital flourishes. The Japanese artist’s meticulous process ensures that it’s difficult to tell which parts of the structure are part of the tangible framework. The final product, though elegant, seems to convey a world in which we’ve lost and eroded ourselves to technology.