Fioriture by Beniamino Leone
Italian figurative artist Beniamino Leone creates portraits of women with their eyes blossom in flowers
Alex Chinneck: Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder
Master of illusions Alex Chinneck’s latest mind-boggling public art installation is on show in what must surely be the spiritual home of his craft; one of the busiest piazzas in London and its theatrical hub. His floating building follows on from a sliding house, upside down house and many other puzzling optical illusions. Called Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder, Alex says: “The titles are born from a kind of daydreaming. Everything we do now is extremely planned and co-ordinated. And I don’t feel like an artist anymore. A title is a rare opportunity to do something which feels slightly bohemian!”
As for the thinking behind Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder, Alex muses that “there are things which always come together but are always slightly apart.” In terms of the building itself, “the shape of the crack was reminiscent of the lightning bolt. It’s a very cataclysmic scene.”
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The Marble and The Chief by Yuri Ancarani
The video below is not about the design itself but about the power of a raw marble - the beautiful material born for art and architecture. In his short movie Yuri Ancarani extracts a striking portrait of marble. “Marble quarries are places so unbelievable and striking, they almost feel like they are big theaters or sets,” says Yuri Ancarani, the filmmaker behind today’s excerpt from the documentary, Il Capo (The Chief), which follows a quarry boss as he guides his men through the extraction process, using a silent language of gesture and sign
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LDF - The First Law of Kipple
Our interior editor Anna promised us to make a little coverage of London Design Festival. Meanwhile we found an interesting installation of Dan Tobin Smith. Entitled 'The First Law of Kipple' in reference to Phillip K Dick's 1968 novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'—that later went on to inspire Blade Runner—the installation features thousands upon thousands of objects swamping the studio on every flat surface, arranged (with great appeal to the OCD-inclined) in a stunning spectrum of colours. Much like the fictional post-apocalyptic world that is haunted by plastic 'kipple,' the objects swarm all throughout the exhibition space—following viewers up stairs and into the toilet cubicle. Read more on Core77
Glitched Dioramas by Mathieu Schmitt
“Glitched” is a series of 3D printed dioramas in smoked glass cubes by artist Mathieu Schmitt. The artist allows for the 3D model data to become corrupt in such a way that objects are printed slightly deformed. The late-night settings and the misshapen objects create quite an eerie atmosphere.
Rising Tides by Erik Otto
Rising Tides is a one-night exhibition performed by talented artist Erik Otto (on VSCO) for the new VSCO Artist Innitiative
Falling Icons by Ordinary Architecture
Unsuspecting trekkers in the Hollywood Hills encounter a huge, three dimensional letter ‘H’ along their path. A few steps later, they discover a viewfinder striped like a rockslide warning sign, through its lens it appears the 'H' is missing from the Hollywood sign. Continuing up the trail, more missing letters and viewfinders are discovered until finally there is nothing left of the sign at all…The project "Falling Icons" has been done by Ordinary Architecture
Scarves by Roza Khamitova
Scarf has never been out of cloths trends especially when it comes to handmade piece carefully created by an artist. We can count few female artists on our pages that work with that silk and airy piece of cloths and now meet next one member - Roza Khamitova from Melbourne. Roza is a fashion designer who launched her stylish brand Shovava on Etsy. She designed beautiful and amazing scarfs and foulards with animals wings on it to create a very poetic illusion when a woman wears on of them.
Ecdysis by Sougwen Chung
Our friend and multi talented artist Sougwen Chung released all information about her latest installation "Ecdysis" ECDYSIS is an immersive audio-visual installation depicting biological and architectural adaptation. In Ecdysis, kinetic light, scored by ambient sound, is cast on 36 interwoven planes, suspended in space by their tensional integrity.
Ecdysis is a culmination of contrasts, tracing across gradients of the geometric and organic, the digital and the physical, the melodic and the dissonant. Viewers of the piece are invited to walk within the installation to experience the piece from multiple perspectives, rejecting the notion of audience as passive spectator as they themselves become enveloped forms within the world of Ecdysis.
http://vimeo.com/90478698
Renate Buser
Beautiful illusions made by Swiss artist Renate Buser using huge printouts, check his gallery on www.renatebuser.ch
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Giants by Os Gemeos
Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gemeos turns six multi-story silos on Granville Island into their trademark ‘Giants.’ The murals on the 70-foot towers are now the largest paintings ever attempted by the pair, an astounding feat considering Os Gemeos completely donated a month of their time to create the non-profit art project. An Indiegogo fundraising campaign to recoup costs associated with painting the silos has been extremely successful.
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Illusion Device by Kim Byungkwan
Artist Kim Byungkwan imagined in motion, with great intelligence and enormous talent, various representations of the Venus de Milo, thus offering with Illusion Device to reinvent this monument of culture exhibited in the Louvre Museum. via Fubiz
Digital Art by Lai
Nguyễn Nhựt aka Lai is a 28 years old Hanoian artist based in Saigon. Check his dreamy portrait series below
Matthew Quick Art
An award-winning artist Matthew Quick is known for conceptual realism - that means stuff that looks like it actually is, but makes you think
The Uncomfortable by Katerina Kamprani
For her project “The Uncomfortable,” Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani has created a series of twisted and unusable everyday object
Victor Rodriquez
New works from Mexican hyper realistic artist Victor Rodriguez. We consider them glitchy as well
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Jonathan Owen sculpture
Started with an erasing photography parts Jonathan Owen came from two-dimensional carving to three-dimensional using marble and wood. Mercury, David and Untitled military bust are the first bold captivating works Scottish artist you may see below.
Zachary Eastwood-Bloom
Explore the works of Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, the ceramics specialist who founded East London’s Studio Manifold, who uses 3D printers to create sculptures that would ordinarily take years to create. Read interview with artist on Dazed
Gustavo Silva Nunez
Gustavo Silva Nuñez is an astonishingly talented artist from Valencia, Venezuela, who paints people in water with meticulous accuracy. He paints men and women in soothing and dreamy pools, tubs, and seas. His perfect mastery of shading and highlighting, as well as the water’s swirls, bubbles, and distortion, makes the paintings look incredibly real. The artist pushes the boundaries between reality and painting even further by interacting with his paintings and playfully posing as if the people he painted were really there beside him.
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