Juan Munoz

I've been a fan Munoz's work since I saw his retrospective at Tate Modern a year or so ago. I really like his figures, the seem to occupy a space between humor and horror. I don't quite know whether to laugh or run for my life for fear of their seemingly inevitable animation. Also items such as scissors and a knife, which are held within two of the pieces pictured above, also add to the air of uncertainty and to unsettling the viewer... or at least they do me anyway.

Gilles Barbier

I really enjoy the morbid humor of this piece and I just like the idea of the 'super hero' having to face it's own mortality. They are meant to represent this idea of an invincible or unfaltering 'good' but yet they deteriorate like the rest of us.

This is just amazing.

Wim Delvoye

I came across a piece of Delvoye's work a while a go but it wasn't until today that I fully researched the artist. It's safe to say that I was pretty blown a way by his work. The 'completeness' of it really appealed to me, the body of work just feels well rounded, like he has considered every possibility of the work and then pushed it to it's limit. I also love the business like approach to the production of the 'Cloaca' series of work and that whole idea of the production line/factory idea within the art world. This approach is something that I feel will suite the subject matter of my current work really well and has already given me several ideas that I feel now are worthy of exploration.

http://www.wimdelvoye.be/