Supernatural - Sculptural Visions of the Body

The future of human corporeality in the Anthropocene era. Given the technological development in biogenetics, humans will be able to make existential modifications to all living things, Nature, the animal world, and human likenesses in future. What will bodies of the future look like? Who or what will we be? Supernatural offers us some answers in its hyperrealistic and realistic sculptures. These visionary works not only exemplify the impact of the digital revolution and genetic engineering on posthumans and the environment, but also illustrate, including in their own hybrid creations, how increasingly blurred the line between nature and culture is now becoming. Technological innovations are also having more and more effects on trends in the latest hyperrealistic sculptures. In using 3D printing to perfect their creation processes and pushing sculptural boundaries to encompass robotics and synthetic biology, artists are opening the door to new design possibilities in artefact, biology, and technology for themselves as well. The book presents works by Anne Carnein, Isa Genzken, Glaser/Kunz, Thomas Grunfeld, Sam Jinks, Josh Kline, Kristof Kintera, Reiner Maria Matysik, Alex May and