Hyperrealistic tribute to Frida Kahlo by Kazuhiro Tsuji

December 03, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, TOP 2015, USA, 2015

Frida Kahlo, South America’s most famous woman artist best known for her numerous self-portraits, is portrayed once more as hyperrealist Kazuhiro Tsuji’s latest subject. Rendered with a heightened realism, Tsuji’s Frida is made of resin, platinum silicone, and other materials by the same technique that he once practiced as a special effects makeup artist. Find out more on artist's Facebook via Hi-Fructose

Art of Alonsa Guevara Aliaga

December 02, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, USA, 2015

Alonsa Guevara lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. "If the painting doesn't make you wonder or try to find a mystery or when a person just looks at something and it's too easy to understand or it doesn't make you feel something in your heart, of course it's not successful."

Domestication Of A Pyramid By Magdalena Jetelová

December 01, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Czechia, 2015

Czech artist Magdalena Jetelová created the installation ‘Domestication of a Pyramid’ as a visual metaphor referring to the the Western mentality of taking important parts of our history and placing them inside museums.

via iGNANT

VHS Tape Installation by Zilvinas Kempinas

November 30, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Lithuania, Portfolios, USA, 2015

For his installation, “Tube,” New York-based artist Zilvinas Kempinas stretched strips of VHS tape to create an 80 foot long walkway.

Monica Rohan's Textiles in Art

November 30, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Australia, Illustration, Portfolios, 2015, Art

"Floating transcendence and anchored realism share equal magnitude in Monica Rohan’s paintings. Inspired by a rural-idyll of a childhood in South East Queensland and the internal longing of the 19th century novel, Rohan reflects on the genre of autobiography through a mysterious form of self portraiture. Allowing her imagination free rein, Rohan represents the figure in a variety of emotional roles and physical states. Using space as a striking pictorial device, her female subject is positioned in adventurous settings, endlessly floating or falling, climbing or reclining, hunting or hiding." via

@monrohan

Hyper realism by Joel Rea

November 27, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, Portfolios, TOP 2015, 2015

Australian artist Joel Rea creates photorealistic paintings of natural landscapes and fantastical scenes with a surreal touch. What’s especially impressive is how he manages to paint waves in a way that seem to bring them alive. Rea, who calls himself a ‘contemporary surrealist painter’, often puts himself into his own paintings. via iGNANT

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“Dear World… Yours, Cambridge” projection by Miguel Chevalier

November 26, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, Art, France, Portfolios, TOP 2015, 2015

Cambridge’s King’s College Chapel unites the old and the new, the spiritual and scientific – literally so with the “Dear World… Yours, Cambridge” projection. This project by Miguel Chevalier set up in “immersive projection” in the chapel that showed images relating to the many fields of the University of Cambridge, from literature to astrophysics.

Miguel Chevalier is a Mexico City-born artist who lives in Paris. He works exclusively with computers. Since 1980’s, he has created “many projects variously incorporating generative and interactive virtual reality installations projected on large scale, shown on Leds screen or LCD screen, sculptures created with a 3D printer or with laser cut, holographic imagery and other forms.”

http://vimeo.com/143870160

New Murals on Icebergs by Hula

November 26, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Street Art, 2015

Environmental artist HULA known for his series of water murals moves further and takes icebergs with paint and faith. Check artist statement “Series of murals painted on a few of the thousands of icebergs freshly broken off from a nearby glacier. In the short time I was there, I witnessed the extreme melting rate first hand as the sound of ice cracking was a constant background noise while painting. Within a few weeks these murals will be forever gone, but for those who find them, I hope they ignite a sense of urgency, as they represent the millions of people in need of our help who are already being affected from the rising sea levels of Climate Change.”

Camp, the pigeon by Adele Renault

November 25, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Netherlands, Portfolios, TOP 2015, 2015

Whatever you think about pigeons they don't give a shit your opinion. Same to Camp, brave pigeon of Adele Renault depicted by her on canvases in all glory and shine

Sirens of Mark Heine

November 23, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Canada, Portfolios, TOP 2015, 2015

"Canadian artist Mark Heine is working on a series of oil paintings inspired by sirens, mythical maidens of the deep. Like his subjects, which are equally beautiful and haunting creatures, Heine’s paintings embody both beauty and feelings of unease."

via Hi-Fructose

Infinity Room by Refik Anadol

November 19, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, TOP 2015, Turkey, 2015

"Los Angeles based Turkish artist Refik Anadol wants us to slow down and make technology into something we consciously see and feel..His most recent installation, titled the “Infinity Room” at Zorlu Performing Art Center in Turkey, is a trippy, black and white installation that uses audio and visual stimulation to alter one’s sense of the room. For this, he installed a cinema screen, onto which 3D kinetic animation based on algorithms was projected. It is part of his ongoing project titled, “Temporary Immersive Environment Experiments,” which takes the idea of immersion. Immersion into virtual reality is a perception of being physically present in a non-physical world." via Hi-Fructose

Kelly Reemtsen Art

November 18, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, USA, 2015

Los Angeles-based painter Kelly Reemtsen's (previously) newest works focus on the subject matter of well-dressed women toting household tools that range from mallets to power saws, each held in a causal position that demonstrates a comfortableness with the object in-hand.

Glitch Carpet Art by Faig Ahmed

November 18, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Azerbaijan, Portfolios, Russia, Glitch, 2015

"Faig Ahmed distorts the patterns of traditional Azerbaijani rugs, dimantling their structure in order to build compositions that trick the eye by appearing to melt off the wall. By rearticulating the original design, he creates contemporary sculptural forms that look like digital glitches, patterns flatlining halfway through a tapestry or gradually morphing into a digital mosaic." via Colossal

Ahmed lives and works in Baku, Azerbaijan and graduated from the sculpture department of Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art in 2004. The artist previously focused on painting, video, and installation, but now currently focuses on textile and sculpture. Ahmed recently had a solo exhibition with Italian gallery Montoro12 titled “Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit,” and is currently in the group exhibition “Crafted: Objects in Flux” at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston until January 10, 2016

Art of Davide D'Elia

November 17, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2015

Davide D'Elia produces work that often re-values modern aesthetic graphic terminology by presenting itself beyond object and objectivity, by which he obtains a reasoning that examines the concepts of time and the flow of time. His recent Antivegetativa installation (antivegetative, the name in Italian of anti-fouling paint) is composed of paint, a chair, a buoy and nineteen paintings from old cellars, flea markets, antique shops and junkyards of Rome.

Soft Stone Sculptures by José Manuel Castro López

November 16, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain, TOP 2015, 2015

Spanish sculptor José Manuel Castro López creates surreal sculptures melt down by no reason. The material is stone what left us surprised and mesmerised by the way he played with the form. Check it out below or on sculptor's personal Facebook account

Art of Kip Omolade

November 09, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, South African Republic, 2015

Beginning his art career as a graffiti artist while interning at Marvel Comics and The Center for African Art, Kip Omolade has created beautiful portraits connected to ancient, realistic African sculptures.

The series, Diovadiova Chrome, investigates immortality. The labor-intensive process involves making a mold of each model’s face, reworking the cast plaster sculpture, producing a version in resin and adding a chrome layer with artificial eyelashes. The final sculpture then serves as a model for the hyper-realistic oil painting. This technique maintains the likeness qualities of portraiture while re-presenting a mask that serves as a conduit between the spiritual and natural world.

Text via Juxtapoz

Paper Sculptures of Anna-Wili Highfield

November 05, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Australia, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2015, Art

Anna-Wili's sculptures (Instagram) are stitched together from archival cotton rag. Her works explore the organic qualities and resistance of paper, generating a tension between the complex realism of form and the limitations and economy of the materials used. They represent animal life in an immediate way that conveys the energy, movement and physical character of different creatures. Her aim is to engineer a moment of contact with nature in a way that emphasises both the startling differences and similarities of human and animal forms and consciousness.

Polymer clay flower sculptures by Angela Schwer

November 03, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Portfolios, Sculpture, TOP 2015, USA, 2015, Art

"Working from a tiny table in the nook of her living room, California-based artist Angela Schwer crafts explosive dahlias, gardenias, poppies, fungi, and sea creatures all from a custom blend of polymer clays. Meant primarily as decorative objects, the dense handmade pieces are surprisingly detailed, assembled from hundreds of perfectly formed clay pieces and formed into large tiles that can be hung from a wall or set on a table. You can see more in her online shop, Dilly Pad." via Colossal