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This February, Minneapolis' Walker Art Center welcomes Lifelike, an exhibition of startlingly real work. With over ninety pieces, Lifelike celebrates 50 years of artworks based on the common place. You'll see massive milk cartons, painstakingly reproduced rooms, and surreal human sculptures. It's all pretty amazing. And, it all turns the everyday into something truly unbelievable.
Included is Maurizio Cattelan's Untitled (2011), shown above, a playful installation with giant proportions.
The exhibition will run from Febuary 25 to May 27, 2012.
Continue on for more unbelievable sculptures.
eraser
Vija Celmins
Eraser, 1967
Acrylic on balsa wood
6 5/8 x 20 x 3 1/8 inches
Collection Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Gift of Avco Financial Services, Newport Beach
box
Daniel Douke
Ace, 1979
Acrylic on masonite
8 x 8 x 12-1/4 in.
Courtesy Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul
spirits
Matt Johnson
American Spirits, 2010
Paper, plastic, foam, paint and magnets
1 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (2.5 x 8.9 x 5.7 centimeters)
Pedestal: 18.5 x 18.5 x 36.5 inches Edition of 3
Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Photo credit: Joshua White
© Matt Johnson
milk
Jonathan Seliger
Heartland, 2010
Enamel on bronze
103 x 29 x 29 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.
dumpster
Kaz Oshiro
Dumpster (Flesh with Turquoise Swoosh), 2011
Acrylic on stretched canvas and caster wheels.
47 3/4 x 75 1/2 x 34"
Courtesy of the artist & galerie frank elbaz, Paris
Photo: Kaz Oshiro
boy
Ron Mueck
Crouching Boy In Mirror, 1999/2012
Mixed media
Figure: 17 x 18 x 11 in.
Mirror: 18 x 22 x 1/4 in.
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica. Courtesy of the artist and Anthony d'Offay Ltd
bag
Alex Hay
Paper Bag, 1968
Fiberglass, epoxy, paint, and paper,
59 1/4 × 29 × 18 in. (150.5 × 73.7 × 45.7 cm).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
© Alex Hay.
Courtesy of the artist and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York.
Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson.
trash
Jud Nelson
Hefty 2-Ply, 1979-1981
Marble
Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
room
Keith Edmier
Bremen Towne, 2008
Installation
Dimensions variable x in.
Courtesy of the artist and Friedrich Petzel Gallery
curtain
Peter Rostovsky
Curtain, 2010
Oil on linen
72 x 48 in.
Courtesy of the artist
weed
Yoshihiro Suda
Weeds, 2008
Painted on wood
Size varied according to site
© Yoshihiro Suda / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
