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I was familiar with Mark Jenkins‘ work seeing the occasional “person” leaning, against a wall at Frieze or hugged by a bear  at Volta, as well as his molded tape sculptures of babies, people and animals, but what I didn’t know was that these hyperealistic human sculptures—stuffed and dressed versions of the tape figures—also appear on city streets, making them that much more amazing. The Embed Series as these are called, have resulted in some people calling the police. You can see some humorous (yet understandable) reactions, in the video below.

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These are a lot of fun. As part of the Public Art Horsens event in Denmark at the end of last month, American artist Brad Downey created several clever and witty urban interventions. Downey specializes in the element of surprise, making the viewer do a double-take by disrupting their visual perception. You can see the other four works here. The Horsens event was co-curated by Henrik Haven and Simon Caspersen and included other public works by the likes of Escif (Spain), Sam3 (Spain), Pøbel (Norway), Thomas Dambo (Denmark), and more.

Photos by Henrik Haven

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Spanish street artist SpY from Madrid creates interventions with a humorous surprise twist many of which include a cutting social and/or political edge. In his series For Security Reasons, SpY installed security cameras in the most unlikely places: pointing at a pile of bricks or garbage or even straight up at the sky. Other, less subversive, interventions include replacing the handset on a payphone with a banana, adding a multitude of diagonal lines to a tennis court, and painting a skate ramp to look like a soccer field. I would imagine he enjoys himself as much as anyone that comes across his work.

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