Alexandra Pacula

Alexandra Pacula’s work may look like blurry photographs taken after a wild night out in the city but they are in fact hyperrealistic paintings.

Discussing her work she states:

“I recreate the feeling of dizziness and confusion by letting the paint blur and allowing shapes to dissolve. I suggest motion in order to slow down the scene and capture the fleeting moments, which tend to be forgotten. The sense of motion is intensified with the use of quick vigorous lines and sharp perspectives. By interpreting lights in graphic or painterly ways, I create a sense of space, alluding to a hallucinogenic experience. I want the viewer’s eye to travel within my composition and experience a familiar, exhilarating event of an actual nightly excursion.”

Small paintings by Alexandra Pacula

Painting by Alexandra Pacula

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Small paintings by Alexandra Pacula

Small paintings by Alexandra Pacula

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Alexandra Pacula

Alexandra Pacula’s work may look like blurry photographs taken after a wild night out in the city but they are in fact hyperrealistic paintings.

Discussing her work she states:

“I recreate the feeling of dizziness and confusion by letting the paint blur and allowing shapes to dissolve. I suggest motion in order to slow down the scene and capture the fleeting moments, which tend to be forgotten. The sense of motion is intensified with the use of quick vigorous lines and sharp perspectives. By interpreting lights in graphic or painterly ways, I create a sense of space, alluding to a hallucinogenic experience. I want the viewer’s eye to travel within my composition and experience a familiar, exhilarating event of an actual nightly excursion.”

Small paintings by Alexandra Pacula

Painting by Alexandra Pacula

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Small paintings by Alexandra Pacula

Small paintings by Alexandra Pacula

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Andrew Young

Vancouver based Andrew Young represents the young generation of contemporary artists working in cross-section of hyper-realism and abstraction.

His work currently focuses on lost and found adolescence. We are lost in our self-indulgent primal behavior, forgoing the morals and values our parents have instilled in us. In these images we reflect on our own experiences of these dark visceral moments and places. Our juvenility is found when we disregard our age and act on impulses, often finding ourselves demonstrating irreverent, self-gratifying exploits.

http://vimeo.com/67833746

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Camila Valdez sculpture

Who don't like sweeties and women legs? This two indulgements of a mankind has been merged by Argentinian artist Camila Valdez to large scale and table-ware sculptures already gained much attention on local exhibitions and abroad.https://www.facebook.com/camilavaldezart

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Stoyn Ice Cream Sculpture

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

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http://www.vimeo.com/68913430 FIRMA®FILMS Directed by Igor Shmelev

Vadim Zakharov: Danaë installation at the Russian Pavilion

"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

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Slava Fokk

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.

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Light Sculpture by Bernardi Roig

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.

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KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

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