Art of Kai Carpenter
Seattle-based illustrator Kai Carpenter creates awesome artworks with a deep reference to American art-deco and post Fordism era
Transcending Boundaries
Butterflies flap, a wild ocean rages and a waterfall cascades through the space in teamLab’s digital art exhibition, currently on show at Pace London.
In the mind, there are no boundaries between ideas and concepts, they are inherently ambiguous and influence and interact with each other. In order for ideas and concepts to be expressed in the real world it is necessary to have a physical material substance through which they are mediated. Boundaries are created when ideas and concepts are materialized in the real world.
Within the digital domain, art is able to transcend physical and conceptual boundaries. Digital technology allows art to break free from the frame and go beyond the boundaries that separate one work from another. Elements from one work can fluidly interact with and influence elements of the other works exhibited in the same space. In this way, the boundaries between art pieces dissolve.
teamLab (f. 2001, Tokyo, by Toshiyuki Inoko) is an interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, design and the natural world. Rooted in the tradition of ancient Japanese Art and contemporary forms of anime, teamLab operates from a distinctly Japanese sense of spatial recognition, investigating human behavior in the information era and proposing innovative models for societal development
Soft Art by Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia
Based in Santiago de Chile artist Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia creates rug-like tapestries using colourful soft materials
An Ultraviolet LED Light from TJOKEEFE
"TJOKEEFE kills it with graphic, angular furniture and objects and the latest release, UV, is a bold triangular light sculpture that hangs on a flat surface or in a corner. A flexible, woven nylon thread is what creates the triangular composition when it’s suspended on the wall. With the ultraviolet LEDs embedded in the powder-coated aluminium bar, the thread becomes its own light source as the ultraviolet light projects onto it, creating the ethereal red and purple, triangular glow."
Napoli Project by Alexey Kondakov
After enormous success of "Art History in Contemporary Life" photographer Alexey Kondakov was invited to Italy to do an artist-in-residence solo show named "Napoli Project" (organised with the help of ShowDesk). Alexey took the challenge with a high class just because there was no place for a weak response when doing art collages based mainly on Italian masterpieces and on Italian soil.
Art of Thomas Hedger
Balancing between art and illustration a bold graphics of Thomas Hedger is a good reminder that only personal techniques makes every artist unique. Using print, and more over, silk print style with heavy lines and pure forms, rasterised shadows and pop art topics Thomas' works stand out and invite you to move forward by that colourful river of emotions and small stories.
Art of Soasig Chamaillard
French artist Soasig Chamaillard started to collect damaged statues of the Virgin Mary and restore them in a perfect own way adding superficial abilities one can only pray for. Our favourite is Notre Dame du Poulpe or simply Lady Octopus
Signs of the Time by Walead Beshty
"In this intriguing sculptural series spanning 2005 to 2014, LA-based artist Walead Beshty packaged his artworks in FedEx boxes and shipped them across the country to exhibitions and galleries. But unlike most artists who utilize every bit of care to protect and pad their artwork from the inevitable rough handling of mail carriers, Beshty designed his pieces to break. For his famous FedEx works he constructed laminate glass objects that fit seamlessly within the dimensions of standard size shipping boxes. Through the “normal” handling the objects would inevitably crack and shatter and it was up to curators and gallerists to carefully remove each piece for display. The fragile volumes were then given titles that specifically mention the date, tracking number, and box size of shipment."
Art of Andrew McIntosh
Scottish painter Andrew McIntosh takes ubiquitous structures often abandoned on rural homesteads like travel campers or sheds and reveals hidden worlds within: radiant sunsets and expansive skies that appear like portals into another place. Drawing inspiration from a childhood spent in the Highlands of Scotland, the London-based painter gives unexpected life to derelict buildings set against the backdrop of mist-filled woods and frozen mountains.
Embroidery Art of Ana Teresa Barboza
Peruvian young artist Ana Teresa Barboza use embroidery on photography to create beautiful and bizarre artwork
A Bubble
Schoony
Schoony is a leading urban artist whose unique aesthetic and technical brilliance has brought the art world by storm. His hyper realistic sculptures question war, mortality and contemporary society.
His most iconic life cast sculpture “Boy Soldier” first unveiled outside the houses of parliament as an anti-war protest, is now a household name, featured in Hollywood blockbusters and collected internationally. Since then Schoony has experimented with many different themes, examining capitalism and pop culture, with his keen eye and technical ability Schoony remains one of the few artists working within the life-cast discipline.
If I Stand On My Toes I Can Touch The Ceiling
Schoony and Ryca in collaboration with David Walker for his 2014 show at the Hoxton Gallery.
Art of Dave White
Dave White is a contemporary British Artist who dedicates his work to celebrating popular culture and interpreting emotive issues.
Art of Andrew Hem
“Unknown Terrain” is a culmination of Andrew Hem's imaginative view of the world. In his show statement, Hem shares his personal goal of painting the Seven Wonders of the World by the time he is thirty years old. Here, he portrays sites like the Grand Canyon and Mount Everest, recreating the experience of seeing them as an emotional one, rather than capturing their physical reality. Although these are famous places, many of them are out of reach or facing the threats of industry, becoming “unknown” to future generations.
Art of Nicomi Nix Turner
Graphite art of Nicomi Nix Turner is filled up with occult symbols. Creating detailed illustrations that invoke a surreal understanding of the perfection in nature, her works delve into the occult and the connections between alchemy, mythology, decay and birth. Her hyper-detailed illustrations capture the coexistence of life and decay in a bouquet of fungi, personified insects, bones, flesh and fauna.
Art of Panos Tsagaris
New York based, Greek artist Panos Tsagaris burst onto the art scene in 2005 with his first solo exhibition "Theanthropic" and has since embarked, both artistically and personally—as these are undeniably intertwined, at least in Tsagaris’ case—on a journey of continual transformation towards a higher state, a “state of Catharsis” in the artist’s own words.
Drawing on the fields of spiritualism, esotericism and the Occult among others, his artistic process can be compared to that of an alchemist, as curator at large at MADRE Museum Eugenio Violahas poignantly observed, combining disparate elements, from contemporary life to quantum physics to mystical traditions, in order to achieve a masterfully calibrated equilibrium. This artistic-cum-alchemist transformational process aims at “capturing and expressing the restlessness and magic that exists in the soul of all of us” as the artist explains, in order to “elevate our ‘impure’ self to the level where it can reunite with our ‘Divine’ essence”.
“Let The Sun Protest” exhibition at Marie-Laure Fleisch Gallery, Rome
Installation photos by Giorgio Benni
Art of Emilio Villalba
Californian artist Emilio Villalba recently presented by Modern Eden gallery depicts dreamy distortion on canvases. "His gorgeously distorted work is dreamy and unfocused, at once familiar and unsettling in a way that makes the hairs on the back of your arms stand up."
The Jewellery of Joy BC
Born in raised in a pocket of South East London, 27-year-old Joy Bonfield expresses everything from her Italian heritage, to her feminist interests and discovery of Yoruba castings into her two-year old jewellery line, balancing bespoke one-offs with a beautiful and affordable ready-to-wear collection to maintain her staunch belief that “everyone should have access to fine jewellery and precious metals.”
Art of Andrey Surnov
Go deep into the mid road somewhere nowhere sadness depicted by Russian artist Andrey Surnov
Martin Wittfooth
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.
Sense of Motion of Emmanuelle Moureaux
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.
