From Stick to Chandelier - Palka by Yaroslav Misonzhnikov

April 19, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, Russia, Portfolios, 2017

St. Petersburg-based Yaroslav Misonzhnikov has designed a clever way to turn those simple sockets into minimalist chandeliers. Palka, which is ‘stick’ in Russian, is a wooden system that becomes a support bracket to hold two, three, or five of those corded sockets in place to form a pendant chandelier.

"Palka" project was first shown as a system for sconces at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in 2016 but now it has been developed as a system for pendant lamps. Many people buy lamps with ceramic sockets, but then they face certain limitations during the process of installing.

Using the same module and the corresponding adapter, you can independently create a two-, three- and five-lamp pendant lamp. To fix a wire a special design has been developed: the holes for the wire are made at an angle, which allows you to bend the wire and fix it in the desired position.

The project is produced under the own brand of designer «Misonzhnikov». This constructor is available in two types of wood: oak and mahogany. Wires and bulbs are bought separately.

Photos by Mitya Ganopolsky

Art direction: Agafiia Galitskaya

@misonzhnikov

Marina Mika ink illustrations

April 19, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Croatia, Portfolios, 2017

Croatian artist Marina Mika has developed a personal style in traditional hand-drawn art with a b/w ink approach with a slight clingy to contemporary fashion. Her works correlates with the "Beardsley's" art-nouveau lineart previously praised by Kaethe Butcher and Maria Menshikova

@marina.mika

Neil Kryszak

April 19, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2017, Art

"Electronic music composer, producer, drummer and photographer Neil Kryszak believes that all art forms can communicate beautiful aesthetic values, as long as they are visually or audibly pleasing."

"After moving to Los Angeles, he began focusing on photography, inspired by the new surroundings and lifestyle. His pictures are characterized by surreal and exotic aesthetics, showing reflections of multicolored lights saturating the streets, architecture and the distant scenery, all fading into black. Led by intuition and trust, the instantaneous creative release and the ability to provoke through a frozen moment attracted Neil to photography. Especially the night time is very meditative to the artist. When it’s calm, there is a lot to imagine and to work with creatively, intrigued by adventure and mystery. Characterized by experimental and psychedelic art styles, the pictures also feature a 70s, 80s and 90s nostalgia.", text by Sarah Press

@neilkryszak

Cristina Burns

April 18, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Italy, 2017, Glitch

Cristina Burns is a photographer and a mixed media artist. Her work is characterised by juxtaposition, where opposing elements such as candies, toys, and flowers are fused to anatomical parts and insects, often blurring the extremely thin lines between fantasy and reality, purity and sin, life and death.

This multiplicity of elements are meticulously arranged to create her surrealistic compositions, then she photographs the assemblage, digitally enhance and prints in a limited number of copies, the resulting print is the only record of the artist's process.

@cristina.burns

James Turrell

April 18, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, 2017

For over half a century, the American artist James Turrell has worked directly with light and space to create artworks that engage viewers with the limits and wonder of human perception. Turrell, an avid pilot who has logged over twelve thousand hours flying, considers the sky as his studio, material and canvas. New Yorker critic Calvin Tompkins writes, “His work is not about light, or a record of light; it is light — the physical presence of light made manifest in sensory form.”

“My work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing. I’m also interested in the sense of presence of space; that is space where you feel a presence, almost an entity — that physical feeling and power that space can give.”

— James Turrell

Roden Crater

Roden Crater, located in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona, is an unprecedented large-scale artwork created within a volcanic cinder cone by light and space artist James Turrell. Representing the culmination of the artist’s lifelong research in the field of human visual and psychological perception, Roden Crater is a controlled environment for the experiencing and contemplation of light.

House of Light

“When I first met Fram Kitagawa, he asked me to make a “meditation house” for the Echigo-Tsumari region. He gave me a book written by Junichiro Tanizaki “In Praise of Shadows.” The condition he gave me was that the house must be raised over 2.7m above the ground because of snow covering in winter. After reading “In Praise of Shadows”, I decided to create a house in the traditional architectural manner of this region. I wished to realize the “ world of shadows we are losing,” as Tanizaki wrote, as a space where one can experience living in light, by relating light inside to light outside.”

— James Turrell

Read a review of House of Light on Elizabeth Mueller blog, photograph by Yulia Skogoreva

Ganzfeld

Turrell creates a similar experience of “Ganzfeld”: a German word to describe the phenomenon of the total loss of depth perception as in the experience of a white-out.

@rodencrater

Human After All by Jan Kriwol and Markos R. Kay

April 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Photography, 2017

Human After All, a collaboration between artists Jan Kriwol and Markos R. Kay, juxtaposes CGI recreations of the human circulatory system with images of urban landscapes

For the series, Kriwol collaborated with London-based digital artist Markos Kay. “I described my vision to few CGI artists and all of them gave up,” he says. “When I described my idea to Markos he said ‘okay’ straight away. He then developed the technique for creating our guy and proposed his form and texture.”

Elise's Phygital Objects

April 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, United Kingdom, Sculpture, Portfolios, 2017

Elise is an artist engaged with the shape and form of objects in space. Her sculptures are a giddying mix of surface, mass and volume, situated precariously on the verge of physical impossibility. Pushing materials to the edge of realism, she interrogates notions of materiality, duration and process. Her sculptural language borrows from the industrial and the vernacular. Simultaneously tangible and metaphysical, the compositions project across space, unfurling anthropomorphically upwards, or pushing outwards in repeated gestures of automated reproduction.

@elise.artist

The 14th Factory: largest experiential Art Project in LA

The 14th Factory

April 15, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, 2017

The 14th Factory is a monumental, multiple-media, socially engaged art and documentary experience conceived by the Hong Kong-based British artist Simon Birch. Taking over three acres of an empty industrial warehouse and lot on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles, the location has been transformed into a factory where Birch and his 20 creative collaborators work and manufacture their art, creating an ever-changing immersive environment of 14 interlinked spaces comprised of video, installation, sculpture, paintings and performance.

Presented by Hong-Kong based British artist Simon Birch, the installation features an exact replica of a room from the legendary Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey, a room where 300 pitchforks are hanging from the ceiling above the guests, a room with pieces of a Ferrari that the team crashed and filmed themselves, and a bunch of incredible video installations.

In entering The 14th Factory, the visitor is transformed into a central player in a collaboratively fabricated adventure that engages and unfolds, uniting individuals to the creative process and to each other. The exhibition challenges the current political climate by celebrating creative diversity and unity and to overcome obstacles and challenges as a global society.

About Simon Birch and The 14th Factory

British‐born, working class, of Armenian ancestry, Simon Birch dropped out of school early on and worked a variety of jobs, from rave party organizer and rock climbing entrepreneur in Britain and Australia, to construction worker, bouncer and DJ to support his emerging painting habit in Hong Kong. Through these years, he met and worked with a range of artists, filmmakers, designers, musicians, skaters, entrepreneurs, and adventurers, forming a wide‐reaching but close‐knit group of friends and collaborators across cultures and disciplines around the world. The 14th Factory emerged from these connections.

Over the last few years, Birch has ventured into film and installation work culminating in some particularly notable large‐scale projects: Azhanti High Lightning (2007, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore), This Brutal House (April 2008, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery and Annex, Chai Wan) and the 20,000sq ft multimedia installation ‘HOPE & GLORY: A Conceptual Circus’ (April 2010, ArtisTree, TaiKoo Place, Hong Kong). These large multimedia projects included film, paintings, installation, sculpture, and performance housed in specifically configured spaces. Birch’s work has been featured and reviewed in many international publications, including Artforum, The Guardian, The International Herald Tribune, Time Out and the New York Times.

About The 14th Factory Foundation

The 14th Factory Foundation is an independent, 501(c)(3) non‐profit global artist collective whose mission is to create large‐scale contemporary art experiences that act as vehicles for social impact.

@the14thfactory

Concrete photobook by Gábor Kasza

April 14, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Photography, 2017

“I got an idea to publish an extraordinary photobook. A photobook where the content is in accord with its design. A poetic photo series about relationships, which is moulded into a unique book and a special edition, where the book is set in a thin concrete slipcase. ”

— Gábor Kasza

Take a look at the gallery above and then head over to IndieGoGo to learn more about the concrete photobook. Only 50 units will be made available for supporters.

Gabor Kasza Photography from the book

@gabor_kasza

Porcelain Easter Eggs by Juliette Clovis

April 13, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, France, Portfolios, 2017

Made by artist Juliette Clovis (previously) at La Manufacture La Seynie - the oldest Limoges porcelain manufacture of France, Easter eggs are currently exhibited at Mondapart gallery in France.

@julietteclovis

Designcollector Fourteen

April 13, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Decade, 2017

It all began 14 years ago. And we are still grow our flesh and bones with you sharing the best projects everyday on our vast network feeding the eyes of merely 200K of creative people.

Today we invite you to take a new turn shaping our future in curating contemporary arts!

Please welcome The Art Frontrow Instagram

@artfrontrow

Designcollector 2003 - 2017

Some unsorted moments from our history of collaborations

The Digital Decade 4, 2016, London

The Digital Decade 3, 2015, Barcelona

The Digital Decade, 2013, Barcelona

Sara Blake about Designcollector Magazine, FITC 2014

Sara Blake with (last) Designcollector Magazine 3, 2014

Writing about OFFF 2008

Designcollector Calendar 2010

DCMAG 1, 2012

DCMAG 2, 2012

Designcollector 7 Years Tees, 2010

With Andrei Robu at OFFF 2009

Speaking at OFFF 2011

Russian Panel, OFFF 2011

Designcollector 6 Years, 2009

Speaking at Trimarchi 2015, Argentina

Doing first Behance Russia meetups in St Petersburg

and a lot more to come...

The Digital Decade V, 2017

Aristarkh Chernyshev, "Loading" (To be on display at the Digital Decade 5, London)

Pre-Call For Arms 2017

The Digital Decade annual collaborative event started in 2013 as a celebration of 10 Years of Designcollector. Now we are working hard to announce the start of its 5th edition to run this Spring as online digital art competition and then become an exhibition in London, aprox in August. The exhibition will feature Phygital and VR installations from well-known artists we welcome on board. If you feel you are doing the art research in our upcoming theme "What's Next? Cyberia - the Unknown Territories of Digital Ethnos" trends please subscribe to the newsletter of the event, we will send official announcement this month:

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Dima Rebus: Underground Aquarellka

April 12, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, 2017

Russia-born, New York-based artist Dima Rebus creates arresting watercolours with visuals that blend surrealism and modernised labeling. Recent works move between quiet scenes and crowd-filled cacophonies, packed with contemporary commentary. He was last featured in HiFructose Magazine

@nevantuznetubus

Charles Bierk

April 12, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Canada, Portfolios, 2017

Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk creates hyper realistic portraits of modern youth and explore the visual sense of gestures

@cbierk

Sculptures by Jaime Pitarch

April 11, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Spain, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2017

Jaime Pitarch creates sculptures, drawings, videos and installations often using humble everyday objects such as a guitar, chair, or household and consumer products. He employs inventive strategies of displacement, re-contextualization and visual punning to peel away at their routine uses and meanings to alter our relationship with such utilitarian items.

Pitarch describes his work as mainly having “… to do with the human being’s inability to identify with the structures he himself has created.” Having been stripped of their functionality, we are free to view them in the alternative narratives the artist provides.

Syncretic Noise

April 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, USA, Portfolios, 2017

Syncretic Noise is an experimental dance film featuring relentless choreography by Jeff Salisbury and stunning sequences entwined in a dystopian tale of isolation and enlightenment.

Director Stephen Bullen creates a film within a silent dialogue of motion to portray a man’s struggle to find peace in contemporary civilisation.

Watch the movie below

Director & Editor - Stephen Bullen
Dance & Choreography - Jeff Salisbury
Colorist - Chris Brands
Visual Effects - Xuejing Xu
Sound Design & Music - Stephen Bullen
Production Company - Between The Notes Productions

betweennotespro.com

Andoni Beristain

April 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Spain, Photography, 2017

"Andoni Beristain is a photographer and a Creative-Art Director. His shirts are famous, he thinks in the shower, he dislikes heat, he's thorough, symmetrical, colourful and even though he uses humour, he works very seriously. He also likes irony. He's Basque, lives in Barcelona and he knows how to do stuff properly".

@andoniberistain

OFFF 2017 Main Titles

April 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in OFFF, Spain, Motioncollector, 2017

As OFFF festival ended and revealed new dates for the next magical experience during 24-26 May of 2018, we are pleased to share the Main Titles directed by Vallée Duhamel

Inpired by the 1980's Tango short film by Zbigniew Rybszynski, OFFF Barcelona's 2017 Main Titles are a true beauty. Known for their "high class lo-fi" work profile, Vallée Duhamel duo - Eve Duhamel and Julien Vallée - have took the challenge and decided to work on a one of kind piece to showcase the names of all the speakers who took part of this year's edition followed by a live session of shooting 2,000 paper-planes by the audience during their talk.

@offfest

OFFF 2017 Movie "New Senses"

OFFF

April 08, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in OFFF, Motioncollector, Spain, 2017

As the largest European design festival rolls out on the shores of sunny Barcelona, OFFF team decided to rid off traditional "Open Titles".

This year is a game changer as festival approached its 16th instalment, director Hector Ayuso called up OUTRO Studio and under direction of Marc Castellví with Àlex Monner and Greta Fernández they created a short movie "New Senses". The title corresponds to OFFF 2017 Festival concept.

Outro studio have decided to represent OFFF as an essential element, a brand that provides a formula for a sensorial rebirth - everything you see, hear, taste, touch and smell is a first time experience.

@offfest

Cielo Yu Photography

April 07, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, Taiwan, 2017

"A young Taiwanese photographer, Cielo Yu searches for spontaneous visual discoveries, experimenting with various compositions and colour combinations."

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable: Damien Hirst

Palazzo Grassi

April 07, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Italy, United Kingdom, Sculpture, 2017

"In 2008 the wreck of a treasure ship called the Apistos (meaning “the Unbelievable”) was found on the seabed off east Africa. It sank about 2,000 years ago. Its unique cargo of global artefacts, assembled by a freed slave called Cif Amotan II, have spent two millennia undergoing a “sea change” straight out of Shakespeare’s Tempest, becoming wrapped in coloured corals and bizarre crustacean growths - until the archaeologists who found this sunken marvel asked Hirst to use his millions to help recover it."

"If you believe that, you’ll believe anything. The curators who told this bit of hokum straightfaced at the start of the press view deserve bonuses, if Hirst has not yet bankrupted himself creating this luxury masterpiece. " The Guardian