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Awe Inspiring
I stumbled across a photo of one of Kris Kuksi's sculptures yesterday and I was captivated. I sought his website, kuksi.com, as soon as I put his name to the sculpture so I could find more of his amazing sculptures. I was instantly drawn into the minute and disturbing details laid out in these immense and intricate sculptures that address political, social and religious ideas all at once. Somehow the pieces make one cohesive and breathtaking sculpture, but at the same time they are schizophrantic and dissenting in the details. They are so mesmerizing that I find it very difficult to look away from the sculptures. Guillermo del Toro explains it best, “A post-industrial Rococo master, Kris Kuksi obsessively arranges characters and architecture in asymmetric compositions with an exquisite sense of drama. Instead of stones and shells he uses screaming plastic soldiers, miniature engine blocks, towering spires and assorted debris to form his landscapes. The political, spiritual and material conflict within these shrines is enacted under the calm gaze of remote deities and august statuary. Kuksi manages to evoke, at once, a sanctum and a mausoleum for our suffocated spirit.”