Art of Daliah Ammar

Daliah Ammar is a nineteen-year-old Palestinian-American artist based in Chicago. I personally enjoy her colour palette and an ability to depict deep emotions using dramatic lights and shadows on each portrait. The purpose of Daliah’s work is to transcend the notion of the self and the physicality of paint, resonating from her own vulnerable and personal experiences – as a means of conveying life as it blooms and decays from within. Expressing that awareness of the self and reflecting to the viewer establishes a relationship between themselves and herself. Daliah’s works are confrontational, yet, intimate and personal – using the painted surface as a trope for the physical and psychological presence between the inner self and external viewer.

Berlin Wall Rebuilt in Glowing Orbs

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , artists Christopher and Marc Bauder and studio Whitevoid, marked fifteen kilometers of the original route of the Wall. They used over 8,000 light balloons filled with helium to recreate that shameful episode of a history. This project entitled “Lichtgrenze”, “Border of Light” will be installed on November 7, balloons will fly the 9th of November at night. Via Fubiz

http://vimeo.com/105754237

Matthew Shlian

Matthew Shlian (Facebook) works within the increasingly nebulous space between art and engineering. As a paper engineer, Shlian's work is rooted in print media, book arts, and commercial design, though he frequently finds himself collaborating with a cadre of scientists and researchers who are just now recognising the practical connections between paper folding and folding at microscopic and nanoscopic scales. Of his work, he writes:

"In my studio I am a collaborator, explorer and inventor. I begin with a system of folding and at a particular moment the material takes over. Guided by wonder, my work is made because I cannot visualize its final realization; in this way I come to understanding through curiosity."

via The Ghostly Store

http://vimeo.com/47502276

Layered Glass Sculptures by Ben Young

"Sculptor Ben Young just unveiled a collection of new glass sculptures prior to the Sculpture Objects Functional Art + Design (SOFA) Fair in Chicago next month. Young works with laminated clear float glass atop cast concrete bases to create cross-section views of ocean waves that look somewhat like patterns in topographical charts. The self-taught artist is currently based in Sydney but was raised in Waihi Beach, New Zealand, where the local landscape and surroundings greatly inspired his art. You can learn more about his sculptures over on Kirra Galleries, and follow him on Facebook." via Colossal

Paintings by Kyle Barnes

Hyper realistic art on canvas painted by Kyle Barnes. As stated on the website Kyle is inspired by our perception of, and our interaction with each other through visual identity. The combination of expression, eye contact, concealment, colour and texture makes for a varied involvement with each of his works.

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

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