A confrontational sculpture by D.C.-based artist, Joseph Barbaccia.
While I hate to call a gun a “household item” it’s accurate. According to data collected earlier this year, approximately 40% of homes in the U.S. said they had a firearm in the home. So consider that fact as you check out the weird anatomical sculptures of Joseph Barbaccia in which the artist fused various parts of the human body with various kitchen and household items.
Of the various polystyrene sculptures by Barbaccia in this post, one includes a woman’s hand affixed to a pistol (pictured above) and another features a sharp kitchen knife with a rock hard cock for a handle. All of which are allegories for societal issues such as the obesity epidemic and our collective preoccupation regarding all things related to sex. Based in Washington, D.C., Barbaccia is a talented artist with a high proficiency for three-dimensional sculpture work. In addition to his tricked-out kitchen tools, Barbaccia also has an extensive collection of celebrity portraits that he makes using long threads of colorful clay in order to create groovy images of Tom Waits, the late Gene Wilder in character form Young Frankenstein, and Charles Bukowski. I’ve posted pictures of Barbaccia’s work below; a few are NSFW.
“Obesity.”
“Integration.”
“Naked Aggression.”
Tom Waits.
Gene Wilder in ‘Young Frankenstein.’
Charles Bukowski.
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Anatomical Venus: The gory idealized beauty of wax medical models
Serial killers, death masks and other strange 100-year-old wax anatomical anomalies
Realistic sculptures of free-floating body parts, ‘humans’ trapped in formaldehyde & other oddities