3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Martin Wittfooth was born in 1981 in Toronto, Canada. He spent his childhood in Finland, before moving back to Canada as a teenager. Through his paintings, Martin presents a world which is dystopian by its very definition. The Earth he depicts is void of human life, and filled with strong symbolic implications that the root cause is of our own making; pricipally our disconnection from, and disrespect for, the natural world.
In celebration of NSK ltd.’s 100th anniversary, the exhibition ‘Sense of Motion’ has been hosted inside the commercial shopping mall of Omotesando Spiral in Tokyo where architect Emmanuelle Moureaux has injected the space with vibrancy and colour with the ‘colour mixing’ installation.
Once mentioned in our Top 2012, Diego did a lot of new artworks since than. Mainly a portraits of a young women his illustrations exude the inner beauty wrapped in art-nouveau reflexion
Eckart Hahn is a self-taught German painter and fine artist. He is famous with his large acrylic paintings in which combine a collage-like approach with a hyperrealist finish. Hahn has had numerous shows in many German and American galleries. His works are parts of prestigious collections in Europe and North America.
Contrived Structures is a series of photographs created by Nick Sellek depicting detailed models, embracing the contrived structures that surround us in our overdeveloped urban environments. They are close up, exaggerated studies of architectural components, severed from context to emphasise the absurdity of their design. The models are also intended to be displayed as freestanding objects, and to be viewed from all angles.
Moscow-based artist Liza Smirnova uses embroidery as a tool for her illustrative artworks
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Moscow-based designer Maksim Arbuzov made a sort of an art statement by juxtaposing two icons of mass-production and contemporary art: IKEA and Malevich
"The moment when culture is reflecting in a mass product. Time is going and we often don’t see how history influences to our culture and markets. My idea is to show how through time frames art objects can find reflection in mass-market products. Malevich's Gestalta representing a contemporary culture was created from two famous man-made pieces from different centuries"
American photographer Ben Zank, shot a new series of surreal portraits following his move from New York City to New Zealand. In a statement about his latest work, Zank says, “The images represent an ongoing experience of emotions that I feel, the most recent being isolation and a longing to connect with another human being.”
Tamura Yoshiyasu (田村吉康) is a professional manga illustrator & painter, born in Gunma, Japan, 1977. Since high school, he has been drawing & in 2003, his first manga, “Fudegami” was published in the popular monthly, Gekkan Shonen Jump. As a painter, he has exhibited his works at Takashi Murakami’s gallery Higari Zingaro, Basel, Taipei, Los Angeles, New York & Mexico City. He also collaborated with the fashion brand “McQ: Alexander McQueen” for the 2014 winter collection.
Studio Dessuant Bone is a multi-disciplinary design consultancy based in Paris, with our specialities in direction, design, product and interiors. Their conceptual series of tableware objects "Fasted" was presented last year at Salone Del Mobile 2015
“We have created a set of non functional tableware and focused on their representation, producing a drawing in volume made of blue metal wire. This dinner scene is framed by a brushed brass circle. ‘Fasted’ questions the links between objects surrounding us and their representation.”
Artist from Barcelona creates colourful works that can be visually read as self expressions of his emotional states. Meet Yago Hortal
Japanese contemporary sculptor Yoshitoshi Kanemaki creates surreal wooden sculptures you won't ever forget once seen
Ryan Morse is a Denver based freelance artist who received his BFA in illustration from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. His artwork is mainly representational with a deep affection for the cosmos, nature, and the human figure.
British artist Ian Davenport creates artworks by pouring gallons of colours in his own way on canvas creating slit scan effect
Thomas Danthony (previously) is a London based artist, illustrator, and designer. In 2015, he has created “VOYAGE”, a series of paintings that serve as invitations to a poetic journey. Inspired by distant countries and exotic places, the artworks convey a touch of romance and mystery.
Johnson Tsang (previously) is an exceptional artist who skilfully combines figurative sculptural techniques with surreal portrayals. His latest series ‘Lucid Dream’ consists of sculptures of human heads in strangely transformed representations. The sculptures were made of porcelain representing different faces or personalities in a variety of weird situations. The complete series could be seen at Hong Kong’s Sculpture Biennial 2016.
James Jean was born in Taiwan and graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts. His critically acclaimed illustration and fine art career has led him to create covers for DC Comics, collaborate with Prada, and to exhibit his work worldwide.
Upcoming exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery
Dmitri Aske had his first solo show in September — October, 2016 in Vladey Space Gallery, Moscow, Russia. The exhibition called Reality 2.0 included eight new artworks made in the artist's unique technique of a multilayer plywood relief especially for the show. All the works are dedicated to the digital era we are living in, now that the Internet takes up more and more of our time and attention becoming for many people the second reality. The addiction some people have might be even compared to a mother-child relationship. At the same time, as Marshall McLuhan wrote as far back as 1960s, people don't actually notice how new media entering our lives are gradually changing us.
A person born before the 1990s sees video calls, a 'computer-in-your-pocket' phone, and a broadband Internet connection available almost everywhere as materialisation of the future. Meanwhile, the new generation takes all that for granted as a beginning of a new era. In his new body of work, Dmitri Aske reflects our time suggesting that the viewers should contemplate how much all of us are absorbed by Reality 2.0.
Talented artist we discovered few years ago Henrietta Harris has created lots of new artworks since than. Her paintings often involved portraiture with a departure into the surreal with faces skilfully obscured and misplaced by the clean sweep of a brushstroke.
Bill Durgin works with human's body as a metaphoric material. In his photography models become sculptures bending the reality and primitive laws of physics.
