Traveler 78 at Night, 2003. Snowglobe, 9x6x6” & C-Print, 40x33” ed. of 5Summer heat getting you down? Take a look at this work by the husband and wife team Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz, who are putting the "edge" and craftsmanship back into snowglobes.
Blindness, 2007. C-Print, 35 x 71” ed. of 6Martin & Munoz construct miniature scenes and insert them into snow globes. When they chose to, they shift these landscapes to a monumental scale through photography (ltd. ed. prints $1,200, snow globes, $10,000).
3 Snow Globes from the Traveler SeriesSome would argue that the wilderness is the main character... others have stated that the artists take "tragic or cult-related real-life incidents... and recontextualize them as snow-globes to symbolically 'contain' the situations and thereby make them more accessible to the public."
After the Fire, 2006, C-print, 35 x 72” ed. of 6
Alone Together, 2005. C-Print, 40 x 33” ed. of 5Whatever... they are thought-provoking, intricate and sublime. And, well, cool -- in temperature and intrigue. Enjoy.
The Nursery, 2007. C-Print, 36 x 60” ed. of 6My friend Vicki assures me they fashion the trees by hand, and find "stock" figures to repaint and transform. All in the Poconos no less. Bravo!
Traveler 204, 2006. Snowglobe, 9x6x6” & C-Print, 40x33” ed. of 5
Snow Globe installation, Kiasma MuseumThanks Vicki, and Art Candy/NYMag!
Inquiries about the works featured here? Please contact the artists directly via email or see the P·P·O·W Gallery, New York or best yet.... check out the show (about to close on Friday!) at George Adams Gallery at 525 West 26th Street, First Floor
Know any artists whose work would make a home a lovelier place? Send ideas o The Gallery. Thanks!
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awesome!
view mfpants's profile
In the first pic, are they hugging or is he trying to throw her off the cliff?
view AlmostAD's profile
Wow. These are really beautiful.
view teamnap's profile
Magical!
view jen_g's profile
The Nursery reminds me of the second/third book in the Ender's Game series... I wonder if that was their inspiration?
view That70sHeidi's profile
Can you buy the globes themselves or just the prints?
view elvedon's profile
Oh, god, sometimes I'm such a moron. FTFPA, I have now reminded myself.
view elvedon's profile
Fine art is really going down the drain these days---pandering to the simple minded!
I am sure these are not affordable to the general public, not at 10,000 dollars for a globe.
Some of you people who do AT really do live on another planet at times. Or have friends who you push products for!!!
view poptart's profile
Okayyy poptart, throughout history people have griped about the quality of art going down the drain, including about such artists as Monet and Picasso. (No, I'm not comparing them.)
Anyway. I'm surprised there are no polar bears.
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im not quite sure when "fine art" was affordable to the general public, unless you were buying lithographs or prints.
anyways, another artist who does kind of similar work is Sherri Hay (http://sherrihay.com/). worth a gander - however, not really any more affordable.
view sizetoosmall's profile
At some point you could buy them. I forget which gallery had them. A small one was something like $750. As they got more popular, the prices went up so it may be too late...
view charlenemcbride's profile
Those Sherri Hay globes are amazing in a completely different way! Reminds me a little of the work of Paul Chan that was at the New Museum recently: http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/20?gclid=CILKkKPWjpUCFQikHgod1AJrfQ
Poptart, it's not always about acquiring things.
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Love them, but the price is morbidly excessive.
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