The sculptures hyperrealists Kazuhiro Tsuji's are really impressive. They seem to capture the soul of each of those represented in them such as Abraham Lincoln, Salvador Dalí or Andy Warhol. They are of such quality that something cracks inside us when we meet the untimely gaze of one of the great geniuses of surrealism such as Dalí.
Tsuji is well known in Hollywood for his work in special effects, a Japanese artist based in Los Angeles, who also creates sculptures with impressive realism and in this way pays tribute to Dalí, Andy Warhol or even Abraham Lincoln.
And one might think that we are facing small sculptures, upside down, They are huge and compared to the artist you can see their real size. A huge work and one would have to wonder where he got the inspiration from to capture, in part, the soul of these three geniuses.
The technique Tsuji uses is sculpting the heads in clay to mold the sculpture later in silicone with a good layer of resin to keep the shape. He also uses different airbrushes with different silicones to shape the sculpture. If you want to know part of the process it uses, you can go for his Instagram where he shows interesting photographs of all the elements that make up his wonderful hyper-realistic sculptures.
If his technique is already worth mentioning, the size of his sculptures is something that can astonish more than one. You also have your own website to be able to follow the different artistic works that he does. If you look in his cinematographic curriculum has been through movies like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Men in Black or Blade 3.
All a great artist to follow And if you had the opportunity to attend any of his exhibitions, surely the sensations of being in front of one of his sculptures would be something to remember.