3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
You may remember this indulging project STOYN of custom shaped ice-cream featuring heads of famous heroes from the world history. Along with adding new flavors and head-shapes like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg or shapes from the famous horror movies, guys did a huge concrete ice-cream sculpture for festivals drops Sculpture of Mickey by Artem Syulev & Polinest
http://www.vimeo.com/68913430 FIRMA®FILMS Directed by Igor Shmelev
"Drawing from the perpetually revisited myth of Zeus and Danae, an installation by Vadim Zakharov in the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2013 uses consumable objects and the sequence of architectural spaces to make manifest underlying ideas about 'rudeness, lust, narcissism, demagoguery, falsehood, banality, and greed, cynicism, robbery, speculation, wastefulness, gluttony, seduction, envy, and stupidity.' the impregation of danae occurs when zeus appears to her as a golden shower after she is locked in a tower to prevent the professed death of her father. gender dynamics and the poetic cycle of gestation are reconstructed spatially with a total use of the pavilion-- a first in the history of the building. aside from providing two viewing points, the division of lower and upper chambers implicates the viewer directly in the materialization of the myth. through a large aperture in the floor a women-only space is laden with golden coins and fitted with umbrellas to shield the mechanical fall of the symbolic objects." via
I am not the only one to think about Modigliani while browsing Slava's portfolio but this is just a small reminder that first there was a big drama and now here is just a good set of artworks inspired by old masters. Originally from Southern Russia, Slava Fokk is Moscow based acclaimed artist who is saving traditions of classic painting in contemporary art.
A Dutch contemporary artist Martine Johanna, living and working in Amsterdam shows the art-deco of the modern life
When I draw or paint, the world becomes translucent and fluid. Like the tale of Alice, but I am not a lost girl, I am the dark wanderer over rooftops, sliding into your dreams...
Bulgaria raised and Frankfurt based hyper realistic artist Angel Peychinov shows his best paintings on personal website here http://www.angelpeychinov.com/
Sculptor Bernardi Roig uses electric light as a metaphor for this mutation: fluorescent tubes encase his subjects, blinding them. The Artist explores the dynamics of voyeurism by revisiting classical myths, baroque iconography, and memento mori, filtered through the fundamental issues of post-modern thought. By uniting his own philosophical and literary appropriations, Roig has defined a modern form of realism.
Ivan Alifan was born in 1989 and raised in Russia, now currently completing his final year at OCAD University majoring in Drawing and Painting. He participated in the Hermitage Museum residency in St.Petersburg, Russia and was a part of OCADU's Off-Campus Studies Program, studying abroad in Florence, Italy
Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor arrived at Art Basel Hong Kong with a sculpture that emphasizes the Beetles form to the extreme – a real 1953 Beetle transformed into a perfect sphere. Check ABHK2013 Highlights on Yatzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3nsQbqxas4c
Please welcome 14 years old "Massachusetts-based photographer Fiddle Oak (his real name is Zev) who creates some impressive miniature photo-manipulations that he’s been sharing online with a growing audience for the last few years. Many of the images are a collaboration with Zev’s 18-year-old sister Nellie who helps with concepts and setup but all of the shooting and editing is done by Zev who is also frequently the subject of his own work."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiddleoak/with/6691220069/
Existential infrared-like artworks are coming out from the ink and paints of Georgia Th from Athens. You have to stop and watch them on http://www.behance.net/GeorgiaTh or def buy some one for your bedroom on http://society6.com/Georgiath
Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is rolling out a new installation at the Sperone Westwater NYC this month, composed of his iconic site-specific laser-cut metal towers. Intricate, decorative architectural spirals are made even more fascinating with Delvoye’s sly, humorous metal manipulations. via
All the sculptures you see here are created by Tom Eckert using wood and painting and nothing else but some magics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6xnVxgNFM_Y
An inspiring 75min DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. Filmed on the heat of live action of the first edition of ®NOVA Contemporary Culture, which happened in July / August 2010, in MIS-Museum of Image and Sound, and SESC Pompeia, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. http://rojoprojects.co/nova
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A1ax7SD8wk4
The series of handcrafted jewelry by Deimante Litvinaite of Lithuanian studio TADAM! Visually appeals to all dessert lovers -a line of wearable chocolates, mini donuts and coconut confections that look fresh out of the oven. via Designboom
Here are the ink drawings of Loui Jover, a Queensland Australia based artist who has been perfecting his craft since childhood. Check his works on Saatchi Online or Redbubble
London based artist Jacob Everett does huge hand ballpoint drawings with machine-like patterns.
I am a portrait artist working with biro on paper. I produce large-scale portraits using an intricate technique of overlapping elliptical marks, which gradually build to represent the subtle contours of the face. In common with digital images, my works, close up, appear as thousands of tiny ‘pixels’. When viewed from a distance they reveal the subtleties and nuances of individual character.
With an already incredible editorial portfolio shooting for TIME Magazine, Wallpaper* and Spin, Marton Perlaki is also the co-founder and photo director of award-winning magazine The Room.
“I’ve always been keen on capturing everyday reality by transforming it into photographs that suggests a world beyond reality. Most of my work features contrast in some way whilst striving for clarity and simplicity.”
Dan Quintana created a new series of stripped-down paintings and charcoal drawings for his upcoming solo show at San Francisco’s Varnish Fine Art, “Zero Instruments.” The figures — often beautiful women — appear to be haunted by the spirits of death, unable to escape their imminent mortality.
Pat Boas is an artist, writer and educator. Her drawings, paintings, prints and digital projects explore the play between words and images, the nature of codes and the arbitrary quality of the systems we use to communicate. With sources that include children’s homework exercises, newspaper headlines, web icons, crowd-sourced image banks, Shaker spirit drawings and the conventions of natural history illustration, she scrambles and reshapes information to release hidden stories from familiar grammatical structures. via
