Joseph Seigenthaler is one of my favorite Sculptors featured on the beinArt website. His stone and mixed media sculptures and installations explore morbid themes while retaining an absurd sense of beauty. I personally find many of his works amusing with their expressive (and often perturbed) faces and strange contorted bodies. But even though Joseph's sculptures are often malformed and awkwardly posed (sometimes defying gravity), they are still frightfully life like as though they could come to life any moment and start ranting indecipherable profanity like escapees from a lunatic assylum. 

The following exerpts were sourced from The Carl Hammer Gallery website:

'The simultaneously repulsive/beguiling mixed media figures of Joseph Seigenthaler didn’t just crawl out of some dark, murky, mysterious slime. They arrived by car, the CTA, they walked in city streets, they ate lunch in a neighborhood diner, their legs mended in local hospitals, they were entertained in the local movie theater. They were the man or woman who live just down the block.'

'His people studies are the quintessence of freak or sideshow subject matter. His transformational use of exaggeration and distortion creates a reality out of illusion and disillusion. "ALIVE!" they seem to shout while conveying to us a chilling association with all things improbably pre-historic or extra-terrestrial.'

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