🎀 Twisted phone boxes and post boxes!

This "knot" is played, 99% of people are entangled when they see...

Surreal sculpture by Alex Chinneck, the British "master of architectural illusion". He is passionate about the creation of architectural sculpture and public art, through the ability to "distort reality", the ordinary things, become unthinkable.

Artist Alex Chinneck, born 1 October 1984, is a British sculptor, best known for creating temporary works of public art.

From carefully crafted objects to grand public sculptures, Alex Chinneck's art makes everyday life extraordinary. His surreal sculptures, exceptional in quality and playful in character, completely upend the world around us.

Chinneck's studio is based in the UK and works internationally. His work includes flagship public installations for the London Design Festival and Milan Design Week, where he makes buildings melt, levitate and bend.

With a blue ribbon running through the red brick wall, "Group hug" is a surreal sculpture created by artist 🧑🏼‍🎨Alex Chinneck on the theme of urban restoration, commissioned by the Nancy Nancy Museum of Art in France.

🇬🇧Alex Chinneck, from Bedfordshire, just outside London, fell in love with painting as a child and later honed his sculptural practice at Chelsea College of Art, where he began experimenting with materials usually associated with architecture, such as bricks.

As a board member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, his work has been widely covered by the international press and selected projects have attracted more than one million visitors. He is a British artist who combines art, architecture, theatre and engineering. We feel his ambitious creativity and the unparalleled impact of his work. Alex's art and installations respond interventionally to situations, bringing the places they inhabit to life again.

🪢 He's twisted post boxes 📮, melted buildings 🏦, driven cars 🚗 on reversed roads -- Alex's sheer ingenuity defies all senses 👀.

📮 he has previously installed a series of 'knotted' post boxes across the UK. These surrealist sculptures are called Alphabetti Spaghetti. He then went on a mad run, twisting the seemingly impossible: fire extinguishers 🧯, chimneys, clocks ⏰, poles, mops 🧹, cans of coke 🥫, and happily transforming them into bows 🪢.

Excerpt from an interview with artist Alex Chinneck:

▶️ Familiarity and repetition can be the prison of creating freedom. I work very hard to be creative and flexible, to allow new places, new materials and new processes to generate new ideas and ways of working. I strive to keep my palette of materials and my library of collaborators limitless.

▶️ My work is contextually responsive and I allow the personality of a place to inform the development of each concept. Inspiration may come from the visual and physical language of the surrounding buildings, the history of the location, or the spirit of the place today. In that sense, I can and do find inspiration anywhere.