Art of Vickie Vainionpaa

February 22, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Canada, Portfolios, 2018

Vickie Vainionpää is an emerging artist living and working in Montréal. "Soft Body Dynamics" is her new art studies presented on the Creative Debuts platform

“This series is a culmination of my thoughts on the impact of technology and the digitization of our current existence. As an artist, I think a lot about what it means to be a painter in today’s media dominated world. I use 3D modelling software to produce forms, colors and compositions which are then rendered by hand using oil on canvas. The works aim to facilitate a dialogue between traditional painterly tropes and new digital means of reading space and content. ”

— Vickie Vainiopaa

@vickiejv

Boros Art Bunker

February 22, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Architecture, Germany, 2018

"The Boros Bunker in Berlin-Mitte houses a private art collection the likes of which you’ve never seen. Topped with a glass atrium, the monumental Nazi-era bunker contains five floors of contemporary art spread across 3000 square meters."

"Built in 1941 as an air raid shelter by the Nazis, following the Second World War, it was used briefly by the Soviets to hold prisoners of war. Following the war, the bunker assumed a more benign role: a storage space first for textiles, and later for tropical fruit"

www.sammlung-boros.de

"In the early 2000s, art collectors Christian and Karen Boros were searching for a home for their 700-piece collection of contemporary art. Only in Berlin would a WWII Bunker with a sordid history seem like the perfect fit. Inside the hulking exterior, visitors travel through a series of interconnecting rooms where works from big-name artists like Ai Wei Wei and Olafur Eliasson stand alongside lesser known, but equally as intriguing emerging artists."

Rem Koolhaas: the new Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

February 21, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Russia, Architecture, 2018

OMA / Rem Koolhaas’ plans to renovate the largest museum building in Russia, the new Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, have been revealed.

"Originally completed in 1983, the N.P. Sukoyan and Y.N. Sheverdyaev-designed institute currently consists of multiple exhibition halls, adding up to a total floor area of 61,091 sqm. As grand as it is large, the museum houses an extensive and important collection of Russian art, including seminal work from Malevich, Kandinsky, Chagall, and Soviet artists such as Aleksandr Deyneka and Vera Mukhina."

Suspended Ocean Wave Installations by Miguel Rothschild

February 20, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Argentina, Germany, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2018

"Multidisciplinary artist Miguel Rothschild works across a wide variety of mediums from modified photography to glass sculpture and textiles. In several recent works the Argentine artist has captured the slow roll of ocean waves in suspended fabric installations titled Elegy and De Profundis. Both artworks seem to play with the viewer’s perception, appearing both as waves or perhaps a slice of the sky. Even the filament that holds the artwork airborne seems to glisten like rays of sun or rain. You can see more of the Berlin-based artists work on his website."

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And here's a closer look on the second part... the other side... of Miguel Rothschild's installation "ELEGIE" were the sea turns into the sky #miguelrothschild #elegie #installation #berlin #mitte #linienstrasse

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Plastic Matters

February 19, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, 2018

Young designer Syddharth Mate released self initiated classroom project "Plastic Matters" what is an awareness campaign against plastic pollution. Also a satirical take on the plasticity of our society.

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@syddharth_mate

The Burberry February 2018 Runway Show, London

February 18, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, United Kingdom, Motioncollector, 2018

An adventurous last show from the form-breaking British designer Christopher Bailey who reinvented Burberry

Time. Reflecting the past. Celebrating the present. Heralding the future. A patchwork of characters and identities. A riot of colour. Traditional techniques reimagined to create exquisite new finishes, rediscovered pieces made new.

P.s.
It is not clear wether United Visual Arts were involved to the show or not but the pendulum light installation was definitely inspired by UVA's "Our Time" project from 2016

Photographer María Jett

February 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Spain, Photography, 2018

Young photographer from Valencia (Spain) María Jett creates a visual poetry where silence takes over human nature

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@mariajett

Chubby Hearts over London by Anya Hindmarch

February 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, United Kingdom, Street Art, 2018

Chubby Hearts Over London is a design project conceived by Anya Hindmarch as a love letter to London and supported by the Mayor of London, the British Fashion Council and the City of Westminster.

Starting on Valentine's Day and continuing throughout London Fashion Week, giant chubby heart balloons will be suspended over (and sometimes squashed within) London landmarks as a declaration of love to the city. The balloons will disappear each evening and appear again in a different location the next day.

@anyahindmarch

P.s. This might remind "Red Ball" project by Kurt Perschke to some of you

What the Fog? - Photographer Mark Broyer

February 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Germany, Photography, Portfolios, 2018

"What the Fog?" is a personal project of photographer Mark Broyer who spent one late evening shooting translucent city of Hamburg in the fog. The results are mesmerising and remind us the works of Mark's counterpart Lucas Zimmerman

@markbroyer

Artist Carl Beazley

February 14, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2018

Discovering new artist is always a sport but doing it together with our new partners Creative Debuts makes it a pleasant competition. Here is Carl Beazley whose art struggles through "figurative", "surreal" labels one can attach to his personal experiments born in an attempt to find something completely original and unique.

@carlbeazleyart

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Guangzhou Image Triennial Exhibition Identity

February 14, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Graphic Design, China, Portfolios, 2018, Glitch

A Creative Lab another design delivered impressive identity for ongoing Triennial in Guangzhou merging visual language of Chinese typography with glitch aesthetics of modern technology

Full Case on Behance

Photographer Alex Stoddard

February 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Portfolios, Photography, USA, 2018

6 years ago we stumbled across Alex Stoddard self-portraits made in improvised natural environments. That was a relief to find his mature works today featured on Ello Creative Network

@alexbstoddard

hash2ash at National Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw

hash2ash - everything saved will be lost

February 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Poland, Portfolios, 2018

“We don’t want our digital lives to fade away. If we want to preserve them, we need to make sure that the digital objects we create today can still be rendered far into the future”

— Vint Cerf

hash2ash

Interactive installation for National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw created by panGenerator as a part of TEEN AGE exhibition. Installation tuches on the themes of selfie-culture, and the fear of permanently losing the digital records of our lives due to technical failures, impermanence of data storage, or simply because of the obsolescence of the old digital file formats. Even with such compulsive overproduction of the images of ourselves we might end up with nothing but the blank memories of our past. Even the data on ourselves will eventually fade away…

The installation consist of the display that prompts you to take a selfie on your phone, which it renders in digital particles on its large 1x1 meter screen. Then a moment later, your face scatters and falls apart and the real black gravel starts to fall at the bottom of the screen in perfect synchrony with the digital simulation. Gradually a dark mound builds up at the foot of the construction

@pangenerator

Geronimo fills Lincoln Center with a massive balloon Installation for the New York City Ballet

February 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, 2018

"Based in Los Angeles and working under the moniker Geronimo, Zencirli builds sprawling conglomerations of perfectly spherical balloons in carefully selected color palettes."

Words by Laura Staugaitis

"Zencirli’s latest creation has been produced in collaboration with the New York City Ballet, as part of their Art Series. The annual series invites a contemporary artist to install a site-specific artwork in the heart of Manhattan at Lincoln Center, where the ballet has been based since 1964. This is the series’ sixth year and Zencirli is the first female artist to be selected. In anticipation of the event, an appropriately-over-the-top video introduces audiences to Geronimo, directed by Andy Bruntel."

The artwork was unveiled on January 26, and remains up until February 24th, during which time the Ballet has two special performances. There are also public viewing hours every day of the week from February 17 – 25.

@geronimo

Black Inks by Oozy

February 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in South Korea, Tattoo, 2018

Our tattoo section was a bit abandoned till now when South Korean tattoo artist Woojin Choi, or Oozy, shows his detailed black and white works which often incorporate a macabre twist

@oozy_tattoo

The Darkest Building on Earth: Hyundai Pavilion covered with Vantablack VBx2

February 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, South Korea, United Kingdom, Art, 2018

"London-based architecture practice Asif Khan have unveiled their latest project, a super-black pavilion entirely coated in Vantablack VBx2 at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 in South Korea. The building’s exterior is illuminated by a field of stars that appear to float in mid-air. Hyundai Motor has commissioned the pavilion as part of a global mobility initiative."

"The structure’s 10-metre-high parabolic facades are coated with a super black material: Vantablack VBx2, a derivative of the original Vantablack, making it the world’s largest continuous nanostructure. The matt black material is able to absorb 99% of the light that hits its surface, diminishing its three dimensionality and creating the illusion of a startling black void in broad daylight. The facades of the pavilion are punctuated by thousands of tiny white lights which, during the day, simulate the view into space from that point on earth."

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"Inside the 35m x 35m structure, Khan has designed a vast ‘water room’ – a multi-sensory hydrophobic water installation which emits 25,000 singular water droplets every minute. Visitor interaction with a series of haptic sensors creates new rhythms as droplets continually collide, join, and split across the water landscape, which appears like a city viewed from space. These flows of individual droplets col-lect, grow and build into a ‘lake’ which drains and reappears in the space of minutes."

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#Hyundaipavilion 💫

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"Asif Khan has been working with the manufacturers of Vantablack since 2013 and proposed its use in his shortlisted proposal for the UK Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015. Asif Khan’s super-black building at the 2018 Winter Olympics follows his designs for Coca-Cola’s landmark pavilion at the 2012 London Olympic Games and the MegaFaces pavilion at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics."

Remy Martin x Matt W. Moore: Basketball Court at Art Basel 2017

February 07, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Street Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

Talented artist we follow for ages Matt W. Moore shared his latest project done later last year at Art Basel Miami 2017. It is a 1st Chapter of a special collaboration with Remi Martin that lead to basketball court design during the art fair at 'The W' South Beach Miami.

@mwm_graphics

It's not the first time artists design basketball court, and you may remember Paris based Nike court redesigned twice (one, two) by Stephane Ashpool

The Ashes of Snow by Carla Chan

February 07, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Hong-Kong, Digital Art, 2018

Carla Chan obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She works with a variety of media including video, installation, photography and interactive media. Much like the never-ending development of new technology Chan considers media art as a medium with infinite possibilities for artistic expressions.

The Ashes of Snow

The Ashes of Snow is an immersive environment that mistreats and misplaces a natural phenomenon: snow. By applying thermochromic technology and a particle falling system, the artwork simulates snowing indoor, By manipulate the temperature inside the particle falling system, the snow’s colour change in greyscale during falling. And eventually the white snow changed to black on the air.

The process seems to be an ordinary snowy environment, but there is subtle drama within. The black tainted snow causes a sense of misplacement of the snowing experience, bringing the audience a twist in the supposedly dreamy imagination of pure white snow. By manipulating the colour of snow and the falling pattern, the flaws, contamination and pollution are exaggerated as the snow falls. Such a foreign but familiar environment gives the audience a space to think and reflect in the bittersweet beauty of destruction. In the process of snow falling in black and white, the artwork also creates a physical landscape of white snow tainted in black at times. With a hint of traditional Chinese ink painting, the minimal visual experience conveys an atmosphere that is dramatic, poetic, pessimistic and concerning for the future.

Ultimately, the impure snowy landscape aims to heighten the sense and awareness of climate change, global warming and pollution in the global scale. In reality, black snow is oftentimes related to heavy pollution and contaminated environment, by staging the audience in the simple, yet dramatic immersive environment. The gradient change of snow color is giving a space for audience to think deeply of a non- exit and twisted situation and yet creates a stage of destruction and invertible situation.

www.carlachan.com

Hail to the Chief by Frank Synowicz

LACDA

February 06, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, Portfolios, USA, 2018

Frank Synowicz is a multidisciplinary new media/digital artist and designer working with Computer graphics, visual effects, video, virtual reality, and traditional painting and drawing. He presents the new art projects "Hail to the Chief" and "Composite of the Chiefs" where under anthropological decomposition he creates the demystification of the American idols

Currently on view at The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art LACDA

This portrait series reflects the fun house nature of the American political process. The circus-like spectacle distorts details of the individuals seeking the prime office. Our relation to them is mainly from the many facets of historical representation and media coverage. Their exalted placement conjures a synthetic character, which becomes warped as it is consumed by the world. This feeds the base of American mythology and the drive of current campaigns.

The fight for control plays out on the public stage, triggering a national identity crisis. Attacks and propaganda distort reality, twisting these most famous of faces. Strings pulled for posturing position, propping up the most promised person at the helm. A side step song and dance, juggling talking points and agenda. A pageant of manufactured personality. Placing in the public eye a poster picture of power and promise.

Hail to the Chief

Composite of The Chiefs

@franksynowicz

Saint City Over the Winter Skies

February 06, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Russia, Motioncollector, 2018

The best city in the world (by my version) can never bring you down even it was brought down on different occasions through the 20 century turmoil. Talented guys from Timelab Pro lead by Andrey Efimov amazed us again (and before). The feather blow of a snow from St Isaac cupola makes my heart go fast even I write this post from only 10 km to the south from the location. I can't imagine myself watching this masterpiece outside St Petersburg just because it can brake my heart apart.

@timelab.pro