Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel

200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements creates installation done by Zimoun in collaboration with Architect Hannes Zweifel 2011

"The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». It‘s an artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviors in sound and motion. Zimoun creates sound pieces from basic components, often using multiples of the same prepared mechanical elements to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns." words by Tim Beck

http://vimeo.com/22651405

Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel

200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements creates installation done by Zimoun in collaboration with Architect Hannes Zweifel 2011

"The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». It‘s an artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviors in sound and motion. Zimoun creates sound pieces from basic components, often using multiples of the same prepared mechanical elements to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns." words by Tim Beck

http://vimeo.com/22651405

In 20 Steps by Drift

In 20 Steps by Drift (previously), an installation about the movement of flight presented as a part of group installation "Glasstress 2015 Gotika" in Venice Biennale 2015 as part of an exhibition by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg Exhibition.

http://vimeo.com/128608936

In 20 Steps by Drift

In 20 Steps by Drift (previously), an installation about the movement of flight presented as a part of group installation "Glasstress 2015 Gotika" in Venice Biennale 2015 as part of an exhibition by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg Exhibition.

http://vimeo.com/128608936

Amanda Charchian

LA-based artist Amanda Charchian uses mixed media to create captivating surrealist art. Her latest work, a collaboration with fellow artist Eli Craven, remixes studio nudes and photographs of stalactite and stalagmite caves from around the world to produce super cool/slightly disturbing images. She talked art, inspiration and being into suprasensuality with us. Read full interview on Oyster

Sculptures by Tamsin van Essen

"British ceramicist Tamsin van Essen is fascinated by what she describes as the “the fragile boundary between attraction and repulsion,” a place where tension is created by the visible and the obscured. For her Erosion series Essen created layered blocks of alternating black and white porcelain which she then sandblasted to mimic biological forms similar to a parasitic virus in the process of devouring a host. " via Colossal

Charles Bierk

Toronto-based artist Charles Bierk (previously) paints large-scale photorealist portraits of his friends.

Art History in Contemporary Life by artist Alexey Kondakov

"For his ongoing series “Art History in Contemporary Life,” Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov takes scenes and figures lifted from classical paintings and drops them into modern-day life. Bouguereau’s Song of the Angels appears to take place on an empty subway car while a pair of men from Holbein’s famous The Ambassadors are transported to the table of a seedy bar" via Colossal

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See similar projects like "Emoji Nation" by Nastya Nudnik or Julien de Casabianca’s recent Outings Project

The Art of Tomomichi Morifuji

Japanese artist Tomomichi Morifuji creates visual poems using simple photography. You can check his project ARHA as well as personal Tumblr

"arha = ah. When we moved, when we feel, when reminded something. We mutter 'ah'"

The Key in the Hand by Chiharu Shiota

For the Venice Art Biennale 2015, artist Chiharu Shiota introduced an installation named “The Key in the Hand” a gigantic spider web made of red wool threads where we can see 50 000 keys suspended above two ancient boats

Photo-realistic paintings by Mike Bayne

Toronto-based hyper realism award-winning artist Mike Bayne depicts near road scenes from across Canada and US

Classical Paintings on Streets

Julien de Casabianca started Outings Project to fill the cultural gap between the museum and street. Using nothing but mobile phone people can take photos of abandoned and less-known pictures in museums and transfer them on street walls with the help of Outings team. It is legal until you break a law.

P.s. I bet Julien needs to visit Saint-Petersburg and check the street project done by Russian Museum with the same idea. It was vandalised several if not dozen times until people get used to it, and now you watch Russian Classic Paintings outside.

Double-exposure Drawings by Thomas Cian

I think the double-exposure techniques have done enough with photography and no more is a topic of much interest. But can't say the same about things done with hands, like this pencil drawings of Thomas Cian

James Bullough art

Berlin based American artist James Bullough (Facebook) specializing in realistic murals and studio paintings. He is also the host/co-founder of VantagePoint Radio. He is also a part of JBAK Street Art duo running together with Addison Karl. We did a coverage of their murals this month

Gravitant by Cinta Vidal Agulló

With this work, Catalonian artist Cinta Vidal Agulló (1982, Barcelona) wants to show that we live in one world, but we live in it in very different ways, playing with everyday objects and spaces, placed in impossible ways to express that many times, the inner dimension of each one of us does not match the mental structures of those around us.Check her exhibition at Miscelanea, Barcelna this week

"I do not remember the last time I left home without a notebook to draw what I see, notebooks where I try to reflect the complexity of human relationships from different perspectives. I never wanted to commit to a single style, even if that's the common thing to do: each new project, painting, illustration, client, idea... is thoroughly analysed and after that process, what should be told and how it should be told will arise."

Body Manipulations by Monica Piloni

While reviewing the sculptural works of Monica Piloni first thing to spark in my visual mind was the old digital works of Dmitry Daniloff made for Sony PSP. But let's not concentrate on the things I found similar. The sculptures of Monica is something to think about for the fragile nature of our bodies.

The artwork also carries certain morbidity, mixed with slight cliche from the erotic iconography, including many symbols and a miscellany of styles carried by our subconsciousness. These styles and symbols are what we ultimately give back to the environment either in a concrete existence or abstract essence.

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Luminous Poetry and Other Confessions by Robert Montgomery

Istanbul-based cultural platform and gallery ISTANBUL’74 presents the work of Robert Montgomery, a Scottish artist who uses poems and other texts to create light signs, billboards and ‘fire poems’ presented in public spaces. via Yatzer http://vimeo.com/123066296

Post-Soviet Pin Up by Kathrin Longhurst

Raised in East German Kathrin lived in many European countries and finally settled down in Australia. Her works reflect the diverse cultural background and strongly influenced by Communist era, but personally I'd call her canvases the pin-up reflection on a non-existent military post-soviet country. "Women of the Revolution" is her ongoing series of pinup portraits mixed with Russian slang words from "Bitch" to "Pretty". Follow up her latest artworks on kathrinlonghurst.com

Drawings in Space by Janusz Grünspek

German artist Janusz Grünspek created wireframes of everyday objects with a thin wooden sticks and a bit of glue.

Artist Samantha Everton Covers A Building In Her Work

Australian artist Samantha Everton, worked with the architecture practice Kavellaris Urban Design, to create the façade of this new building in Melbourne, Australia. The mixed-use building is called “2 Girls,” and features Everton’s “Masquerade” photo art from her “Vintage Dolls” series, re-created as the building’s façade.