The Vanity by Murray Fredericks

May 09, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Photography, Portfolios, Australia, 2017

"Australian photographer Murray Fredericks’ long relationship with Lake Eyre, where his most recent series Vanity has been produced, commenced in 2003, and to date consists of twenty journeys to the centre of the lake where he photographs for weeks at a time in the vast and infinite landscape. Fredericks is not interested in documenting the literal forms of the landscape. He views the landscape as medium in itself which, when represented in a photograph, has the potential to convey the emotional quality of his experience and relationship to the lake."

“The mirror can be seen as emblematic of our obsession with ourselves, individually, and collectively. In the ‘Vanity’ series, rather than reflecting our own ‘surface’ image, the mirror is positioned to draw our gaze out and away from ourselves, into the environment, driving us towards an emotional engagement with light, colour and space”

— Murray Fredericks

Murray Fredericks's Salt: Vanity is on view at Hamiltons through June 14, 2017.

@murrayfredericks

Fast Food in Marbles by Robin Atar

May 08, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, USA, 2017

Robin Antar known for her hyper realistic recreation of American legacy - fast food in stones. Her quality of the work lead to the official letter from U.S Gov saying she cannot copyright her work because it to closely resembles famous products.

@robinantar

Hand-painted Persian Carpets by Jason Seife

May 03, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, 2017

In this new series of paintings, Miami-based artist Jason Seife deftly renders the intricate patterns of old Persian carpets with a mixture of acrylic and ink. While the paintings utilize familiar motifs in rug design like leaves and geometric shapes, Seife introduces colors not normally associated with the heavy textiles, creating his own interpretations that reflect his mood or thoughts while executing the painting.

@jasonseife

Photorealism of John Kacere (1920 - 1999)

April 28, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, 2017

"John C. Kacere was an American artist. Originally an abstract expressionist, Kacere adopted a photorealist style in 1963. Nearly all of his photorealist paintings depict the midsection of the female body. The kitsch paintings make for pleasurable viewing, not least for the sexually-charged subject matter. John’s incredibly tuned hyperreal style lends itself to the flawless skin of the idealised Caucasian bodies he paints as well as it does to the slippery silk and satin folds of lingerie and bedsheets. As the curve of each woman’s hips builds a terrain across each canvas, the scantily-clad female form becomes a landscape of sexual possibility."

"50 years on, John’s work feels more contemporary than ever: were the paintings the photos they imitate, it’s easy to picture them riding high on fourth-wave feminism Tumblr and Instagram feeds."

Guerilla Artist Carson Davis Brown

April 28, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Street Art, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Mass is a site specific installation project by Carson Davis Brown about creating visual disruptions in places of mass (to date: big-box stores, super-centers, etcetera.). At an intersection between Street Art and Land Art, installations are made without permission, using found materials within the retail landscape.

The works are made, photographed, then left to be experienced by passersby and ultimately dissembled by location staff. Photo documentation of Mass works are initially exhibited in a consumer landscape. Printed, framed (in unsold frames) and exhibited in-stores; all without permission.

@thecolorbrown

New Sportswear Logos Embroidered With Flowers and Vegetables by James Merry

April 25, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Iceland, Portfolios, 2017

Iceland-based artist James Merry (previously) uses sportswear logos as the basis to his embroidered designs, planting thread-based mushrooms, strawberries, and various flowers on top of Nike swooshes and the ADIDAS logo’s three bars.

Monumental sculpture ‘Lucie’ by David Mesguich in Poznan

April 24, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, France, Portfolios, Street Art, Sculpture, 2017

French artist David Mesguich has been pushing the boundaries between street art and fine art by creating monumental geometric sculptures that he puts within urban settings. For his most recent project, the artist created a ten meters high sculpture called ‘Lucie’ representing a little girl drawing a sun in the sky that has been installed in Poznan, Poland.

@us_r79

Neil Kryszak

April 19, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2017, Art

"Electronic music composer, producer, drummer and photographer Neil Kryszak believes that all art forms can communicate beautiful aesthetic values, as long as they are visually or audibly pleasing."

"After moving to Los Angeles, he began focusing on photography, inspired by the new surroundings and lifestyle. His pictures are characterized by surreal and exotic aesthetics, showing reflections of multicolored lights saturating the streets, architecture and the distant scenery, all fading into black. Led by intuition and trust, the instantaneous creative release and the ability to provoke through a frozen moment attracted Neil to photography. Especially the night time is very meditative to the artist. When it’s calm, there is a lot to imagine and to work with creatively, intrigued by adventure and mystery. Characterized by experimental and psychedelic art styles, the pictures also feature a 70s, 80s and 90s nostalgia.", text by Sarah Press

@neilkryszak

James Turrell

April 18, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, 2017

For over half a century, the American artist James Turrell has worked directly with light and space to create artworks that engage viewers with the limits and wonder of human perception. Turrell, an avid pilot who has logged over twelve thousand hours flying, considers the sky as his studio, material and canvas. New Yorker critic Calvin Tompkins writes, “His work is not about light, or a record of light; it is light — the physical presence of light made manifest in sensory form.”

“My work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing. I’m also interested in the sense of presence of space; that is space where you feel a presence, almost an entity — that physical feeling and power that space can give.”

— James Turrell

Roden Crater

Roden Crater, located in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona, is an unprecedented large-scale artwork created within a volcanic cinder cone by light and space artist James Turrell. Representing the culmination of the artist’s lifelong research in the field of human visual and psychological perception, Roden Crater is a controlled environment for the experiencing and contemplation of light.

House of Light

“When I first met Fram Kitagawa, he asked me to make a “meditation house” for the Echigo-Tsumari region. He gave me a book written by Junichiro Tanizaki “In Praise of Shadows.” The condition he gave me was that the house must be raised over 2.7m above the ground because of snow covering in winter. After reading “In Praise of Shadows”, I decided to create a house in the traditional architectural manner of this region. I wished to realize the “ world of shadows we are losing,” as Tanizaki wrote, as a space where one can experience living in light, by relating light inside to light outside.”

— James Turrell

Read a review of House of Light on Elizabeth Mueller blog, photograph by Yulia Skogoreva

Ganzfeld

Turrell creates a similar experience of “Ganzfeld”: a German word to describe the phenomenon of the total loss of depth perception as in the experience of a white-out.

@rodencrater

Elise's Phygital Objects

April 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, United Kingdom, Sculpture, Portfolios, 2017

Elise is an artist engaged with the shape and form of objects in space. Her sculptures are a giddying mix of surface, mass and volume, situated precariously on the verge of physical impossibility. Pushing materials to the edge of realism, she interrogates notions of materiality, duration and process. Her sculptural language borrows from the industrial and the vernacular. Simultaneously tangible and metaphysical, the compositions project across space, unfurling anthropomorphically upwards, or pushing outwards in repeated gestures of automated reproduction.

@elise.artist

The 14th Factory: largest experiential Art Project in LA

The 14th Factory

April 15, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, 2017

The 14th Factory is a monumental, multiple-media, socially engaged art and documentary experience conceived by the Hong Kong-based British artist Simon Birch. Taking over three acres of an empty industrial warehouse and lot on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles, the location has been transformed into a factory where Birch and his 20 creative collaborators work and manufacture their art, creating an ever-changing immersive environment of 14 interlinked spaces comprised of video, installation, sculpture, paintings and performance.

Presented by Hong-Kong based British artist Simon Birch, the installation features an exact replica of a room from the legendary Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey, a room where 300 pitchforks are hanging from the ceiling above the guests, a room with pieces of a Ferrari that the team crashed and filmed themselves, and a bunch of incredible video installations.

In entering The 14th Factory, the visitor is transformed into a central player in a collaboratively fabricated adventure that engages and unfolds, uniting individuals to the creative process and to each other. The exhibition challenges the current political climate by celebrating creative diversity and unity and to overcome obstacles and challenges as a global society.

About Simon Birch and The 14th Factory

British‐born, working class, of Armenian ancestry, Simon Birch dropped out of school early on and worked a variety of jobs, from rave party organizer and rock climbing entrepreneur in Britain and Australia, to construction worker, bouncer and DJ to support his emerging painting habit in Hong Kong. Through these years, he met and worked with a range of artists, filmmakers, designers, musicians, skaters, entrepreneurs, and adventurers, forming a wide‐reaching but close‐knit group of friends and collaborators across cultures and disciplines around the world. The 14th Factory emerged from these connections.

Over the last few years, Birch has ventured into film and installation work culminating in some particularly notable large‐scale projects: Azhanti High Lightning (2007, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore), This Brutal House (April 2008, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery and Annex, Chai Wan) and the 20,000sq ft multimedia installation ‘HOPE & GLORY: A Conceptual Circus’ (April 2010, ArtisTree, TaiKoo Place, Hong Kong). These large multimedia projects included film, paintings, installation, sculpture, and performance housed in specifically configured spaces. Birch’s work has been featured and reviewed in many international publications, including Artforum, The Guardian, The International Herald Tribune, Time Out and the New York Times.

About The 14th Factory Foundation

The 14th Factory Foundation is an independent, 501(c)(3) non‐profit global artist collective whose mission is to create large‐scale contemporary art experiences that act as vehicles for social impact.

@the14thfactory

Concrete photobook by Gábor Kasza

April 14, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Photography, 2017

“I got an idea to publish an extraordinary photobook. A photobook where the content is in accord with its design. A poetic photo series about relationships, which is moulded into a unique book and a special edition, where the book is set in a thin concrete slipcase. ”

— Gábor Kasza

Take a look at the gallery above and then head over to IndieGoGo to learn more about the concrete photobook. Only 50 units will be made available for supporters.

Gabor Kasza Photography from the book

@gabor_kasza

Charles Bierk

April 12, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Canada, Portfolios, 2017

Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk creates hyper realistic portraits of modern youth and explore the visual sense of gestures

@cbierk

Sculptures by Jaime Pitarch

April 11, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Spain, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2017

Jaime Pitarch creates sculptures, drawings, videos and installations often using humble everyday objects such as a guitar, chair, or household and consumer products. He employs inventive strategies of displacement, re-contextualization and visual punning to peel away at their routine uses and meanings to alter our relationship with such utilitarian items.

Pitarch describes his work as mainly having “… to do with the human being’s inability to identify with the structures he himself has created.” Having been stripped of their functionality, we are free to view them in the alternative narratives the artist provides.

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable: Damien Hirst

Palazzo Grassi

April 07, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Italy, United Kingdom, Sculpture, 2017

"In 2008 the wreck of a treasure ship called the Apistos (meaning “the Unbelievable”) was found on the seabed off east Africa. It sank about 2,000 years ago. Its unique cargo of global artefacts, assembled by a freed slave called Cif Amotan II, have spent two millennia undergoing a “sea change” straight out of Shakespeare’s Tempest, becoming wrapped in coloured corals and bizarre crustacean growths - until the archaeologists who found this sunken marvel asked Hirst to use his millions to help recover it."

"If you believe that, you’ll believe anything. The curators who told this bit of hokum straightfaced at the start of the press view deserve bonuses, if Hirst has not yet bankrupted himself creating this luxury masterpiece. " The Guardian

The elaborate backstory is slightly undercut by the fact that the fake relics include not just historical references, but the faces of Pharrell, Kate Moss, Rihanna, and Die Antwoord singer YoLandi Visser, not to mention Mickey Mouse.

Sphinx by Damien Hirst. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images

‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’, April 9-December 3, Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana, Venice; palazzograssi.it

Photographed by Christoph Gerigk
© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

Skull of a Cyclops and Skull of a Cyclops Examined by a Diver. Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

Photography from exhibition by Rita Bamburova

damienhirst.com

Hyper Realistic Sculpture by Sarah Sitkin

April 03, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Sarah Sitkin is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist delivering hyper realistic and somewhat provocative art. Her sculptural works are made in wide variety of media including but not limited to silicone, clay, plaster, resin, and latex.

@sarahsitkin

Assimilate Anew with Etre Britta, dir. by James Aiken

March 31, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, Motioncollector, 2017

'Assimilate Anew' is a collaboration between British filmmaker James Aiken and Australian artist Brittany Stephen - known as Etre Britta.

The film explores the relationship between experience and creative output where the essence of a scene can be transported in a 2d form.

Concept and direction jamesaiken.co
Featuring etrebritta.com
Sounds and music wearefather.com

@etre_britta

20 years of Convenience by Me Kyeoung Lee

March 30, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, South Korea, Portfolios, Art, 2017

"For the last 20 years, South Korean artist Me Kyeoung Lee has traveled around her home country, armed with acrylic inks and a penchant for painting quaint little convenience stores. Throughout her childhood, Lee recalls frequenting these charming corner stores that are now becoming few and far between in modern-day South Korea. In each painting, she captures every little detail, highlighting each store’s idyllic features, its traditional signage, and miscellaneous bric-à-brac."

JAHNKOY Fashion by Maria Kazakova

March 30, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Portfolios, Russia, Design, Art, 2017

"Jahnkoy" means "new spirit village" on Crimean. Jahnkoy’s work is a decisive return to craft, meaning the very hands that create and define cultures. Siberia-born, the New York-based visual artist Maria Kazakova explores textiles and ancient techniques, and aims to blend the traditional with the contemporary, highlighting the invisible, and reorienting the practice of fashion to the realm of art.

Maria is a graduate from Parsons School of Design with a MFA in Fashion Design & Society, also holds a BFA in Fashion Design from the British Higher school of Art & Design, Moscow and a Graduate Diploma in Fashion from Central Saint Martins, London.

"Maria debuted with "Jahnkoy" collection at New York Fashion Week 2017 and has been shortlisted by LVMH Prize. Also Kazakova was able to secure a collaboration with Puma and resources from Swarovski for her debut collection, quilting second-hand sports t-shirts with embellished fabrics that swaddled the wearer."

Photos from NYC Fashion Week 2017

Campaign video directed by Sasha Kulak

@jahnk0y

Art of Rustam Iralin

March 29, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Russia, Instagram, 2017

Russian figurative painter Rustam Iralin shares his love to abstract portraits and invites a viewer to read the visual stories hidden in between of canvas, strokes and layers of oil. You may read an interview with Rustam on Yatzer published today

@rustamiralinart