"Wurf" ("Throw") by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk

November 20, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Denmark, Germany, Portfolios, 2017

Danish-German artist duo Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk created a series of installations exploring “the relationship between sculpture and place”.

"Titled ‘Wurf’ (‘Throw’), the large-scale installation features a piece made of paper maché and wood that mimics a heavy stone. Displayed in a courtyard in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, ‘Wurf I’ is installed in a delicate green glasshouse. ‘Wurf II’ features the stone imitation hanging from the roof of a monastery church near Leipzig."

Beautiful and Bizarre sculptures by Qixuan Lim

November 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Singapore, Sculpture, Netherlands, 2017

Artist Qixuan Lim born-and-raised in Singapore and now based in Eindhoven makes these and several other tiny sculptures as a sideline to her work as an information designer

@qimmyshimmy

Colour Theory by Connor Singh

November 16, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Colour Theory is a bold and sensual photographic project released by photographer Connor Singh that explores the beauty of the body. The luminescent light follows the curves of the body to form an ensemble that is both electric and almost erotic.

@connor.singh

Burnt by the Sun MMXVII

November 15, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Portfolios, Photography, Russia, Art, 2017

"Burnt by the Sun" is ongoing series of photography started by Russian artists Sonya and Mark Whitesnow several years ago They manage to caught that "mellow brain" moment of models over-exposed on the sun during a photo session.

@smwhitesnow

Close Contact by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen and Nathan Williams

November 14, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Photography, 2017

"Conceived by partner and co-founder of Danish practice Norm Architects, Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen, and co-founder and creative director of Kinfolk, Nathan Williams, CLOSE CONTACT is a conceptual project that brings a series of bespoke leather spheres, crafted by Danish brand Sørensen Leather, and the human body together in a tactile dialogue of textures, shapes and hues. The project was launched at the Kinfolk Gallery in Copenhagen via an exhibition that ended at the end of October 2017, and is comprised of ten large-scale, limited edition artworks and 100 portfolios of smaller prints of photographs taken by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen"

Liquid Gold Sculptures by Vanderlei Lopes

November 14, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Brazil, Sculpture, Portfolios, 2017

"In this ongoing body of sculptural works, Brazillian artist Vanderlei Lopes creates temporary interventions where his polished brass objects appear to pour and drain like gold from the walls or floors of galleries. Much of Lopes’ work plays with aspects of transformation, be it through the tension of liquid and solid forms seen here, by subtraction, or experimenting with orientation. You can see much more of his work on Artsy and Athena Contemporânea"

@vl.vanderleilopes

Asad Raza for Converso

November 13, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Italy, 2017

For Untitled (plot for dialogue), Asad Raza continues his exploration of inhabiting space with social practices, human and non-human beings, and objects. Raza responds to the architecture of the 16th-century church by introducing flooring, lines, netting, racquets, iced jasmine tea, and coaches for a tennis-like game. He repurposes the church, a place of messages from higher authorities, into a space of two-way exchange and recreation. Raza’s involvement in tennis is longstanding; he is an avid player and has written extensively on the subject. Here he reorients the sport as a reflection on the importance of non-productive activities in a society focused on work. For Raza, the game serves as a method of absorbing energetic drives into symbolic but non-harmful practices.

Visitors to Untitled (plot for dialogue) become more than spectators—practicing with the coaches, they inhabit their bodies in coordinated action. Players respond to each other through the medium of the ball and the plot of the court. The piece places the experience of play above purely visual appreciation, as the back-and-forth of tennis exchanges produces meditative beauty through actions never to be repeated.

Director and curator: Alexander May
Curator: Michele D’Aurizio
Exhibition coordinator: Nadine D’Archemont
Assistants: Giulia Ratti, Chiara Spagnol
Tennis coaches: Tommaso Agrati, Edoardo Bodini, Tommaso Corbetta, Chiara Dell’Acqua, Jacopo Mazzetti, Marco Zanghì

@_converso

Pippa Young Art

November 09, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017

"Exuding a Renaissance aura and staring at the distance with haunted eyes, Pippa Young’s characters are born from a jumble of influences, the most notable of all being photographic imagery. The British artist’s characters, often young girls resembling art historical figures, seem displaced in time. Posing against unadorned backdrops and separated from imposed narratives, Young plays on the ambiguity of the figures, leaving us to construct our own stories and interpretations of each one."

@pippayoungart

Dafuq? Athenaeum by Shawn Huckins

November 08, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, 2017

Athenaeum series by artist Shawn Huckins explores 18th and 19th century American painting and photography in context of 21st century lexicons - Facebook status updates, tweets, texting acronyms - that permeate today’s popular culture. The process is a methodical replication of the original work, each painted by hand followed by the superimposition of large white letters, also painted, of social media jargon

Shawn Huckins studio. Photo © Shawn Huckins.

George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait): I Can’t Pretend That This Is Poetry

Shawn Huckins, **Athenaeum**, exhibition view. Photo courtesy Foster/White Gallery and the artist.

Midshipman Augustus Brine: You Have No Idea How Much I Love You, I Don’t Know Whatever

Richard Heber: To Dante, You’re All I Have, Just Please Don't Ever Text Me Again

ATHENAEUM

@shawn_huckins

A Cloud-Like Foam Installation By Kohei Nawa

November 01, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2017

Kyoto-based artist Kohei Nawa created a huge and immersive cloud-like installation made of small bubbles. Located in a dark room, the piece consists of floating foam that accumulates to form an ethereal structure that spreads across a space. In a statement about the artwork, Nawa says, “Each bubble cannot escape the cycle of birth and destruction, which is not unlike the way our cells operate as they metabolize and circulate.”

Scented Cloud

October 31, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, France, Sculpture, 2017

During Paris’s premier contemporary art fair, (the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain), known as FIAC the luxury brand Cartier chose the shallow reflecting pool outside the Palais de Tokyo, Paris’s most avant-garde art center, to show an installation billed as “OSNI 1- Le Nuage Parfumé,” or “Unidentified Scented Object 1 – Scented Cloud.”

"Visitors were invited to enter the cube and climb up the staircase. Traversing the thick cloud on the landing, they could experience—against a stunning view of the Eiffel Tower—the perceptibly warmer air above the cloud and the enveloping scent of L’Envol, a masculine fragrance created by Cartier’s in-house perfumer, Mathilde Laurent."

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Brittabug Photography

October 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Michigan-based artist and portrait photographer Britta explores her inner world within each shot and reveals untouchable sexuality as a state of art neither self promotion.

@brittabug

Rebecca Hastings Art on ELLO

October 26, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Australia, Art, Portfolios, 2017

DCN Partners at ELLO Creative Network presents

Australian artist Rebecca Hastings "draws a line between the technological suffusion of first world childhood and environmental neglect .. The children in Hastings’ works are strangely ambiguous: simultaneously of this world and alien, contemporary and futuristic, childlike and ageless. They could be representations of the real, or they could be fantasy humans like those created in the digital quest for verisimilitude — the quest that has given us the term ‘uncanny valley’ to denote the point at which the synthetic human’s fine differentiation from the real causes abjection."

@rebeccahastingsartist

Evelyn Bencicova Art Photography

October 26, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Photography, Portfolios, Austria, Slovakia, 2017

Evelyn Bencicova is a visual creative focusing mainly on the medium of photography and art direction. Born in Bratislava, Slovakia Evelyn studied fine art and new media at University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Today combining her academic research with interest in contemporary visual culture, Evelyn’s work is unmistakable for her signature timelessness and individual aesthetic. Here we share one of her numerous projects "Taste of Leaving"

@evelyn_bencicova

Solid Light Films by Anthony Mccall

October 24, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, United Kingdom, USA, Portfolios, 2017

New York-based, British artist Anthony McCall practices in the fields of film, installation, sculpture and drawing.

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Anthony McCall. "Long Film for Four Projectors" (1974). Installation view (2003). Photograph: Hank Graber.

Light Show at Hayward Gallery, London. Photo by Linda Nylind. 27/1/2013.

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Anthony McCall. “You and I Horizontal” (2006). Installation view at Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2006). Solid light installation. 50-minute cycle in six parts. Computer, computer script, video projector, haze machine. Dimensions variable. Photograph: Blaise Adilon. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

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Anthony McCall. "Between You and I" (2006). Installation view at Peer/The Round Chapel, London, 2006. Vertical solid light installation. 30-minute cycle in two parts. Computer, QuickTime movie file, two video projectors, two haze machines. Dimensions variable. Photograph by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

Anthony McCall. “Face to Face” (2013). Installation view at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2013. Photograph by Jason Wyche.

People Matching Artworks through the lens of Stefan Draschan

October 23, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Photography, France, 2017

"France-based photographer Stefan Draschan always keeps himself entertained at art galleries by creating his own art projects. One of those projects is “People matching artworks”. Although at first Draschan’s images seem perfectly staged, the secret behind them is actually patience. The photographer enjoys visiting different museums mostly in Paris, Vienna and Berlin where he waits for visitors to suddenly match with a piece of art in a funny way. "

“Beautiful Mistakes” by Polish BEZT (Etam Cru)

SPOKE NYC

October 20, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Street Art, Portfolios, Art, Poland, 2017

Polish artist, BEZT (Etam Cru) has a show opening on Saturday in New York at SPOKE NYC, curated by Los Angeles-based gallery, Thinkspace. “Beautiful Mistakes” showcases BEZT ‘s melancholic storytelling through a series of paintings and drawings. He’s largely known for his massive murals painted with Sainer, the other half of the Etam Cru duo, so it’s only fitting that in addition to the exhibition, BEZT will be painting his first mural in New York City.

“Beautiful Mistakes” – a solo show by BEZT (Etam Cru)
Opening Reception: October 21st, 6 – 10 pm
On view: October 21st – November 5th, 2017
SPOKE NYC – 210 Rivington St. New York, NY 10002

@bezt_etam

Hanging Paintings By Tadao Cern

October 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Lithuania, Portfolios, 2017

"Lithuanian artist Tadao Cern created a series of delicate, experimental hanging paintings that have nothing to do with paint at all. Inspired by various fabric combinations, ‘Hanging Paintings’ consists of brand new garments and scraps of material that are arranged, draped and wrapped around a simple metal rack, which serves as a canvas.." by Sarah Press, Ignant

@tadaocern

Sculptures by Massimiliano Pelletti

October 16, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Italy, Sculpture, Portfolios, 2017

Massimiliano Pelletti was born in Pietrasanta, a land of noble sculptural roots that gave and gives a lot to the contemporary art. In Pietrasanta he also grown up, and he trained technically in the study of his grandfather, the sculptor Mario Pelletti. He made his debut as an artist in 2006 by winning the 12th biennial of young artists of Europe and the Mediterranean.

Pelletti makes experience of the shape with rigorous attention compositive, strictly consistent with the creative mood of his territory.
He puts togheter the mannerism with the conceptual relevance and the narrative sensibility, because he realizes that the aesthetic perfectionism contains in itself the conflicting root of the emotions.

@massimiliano_pelletti

"_____.jpg" by Alan Belcher

September 28, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Canada, 2017

Conceptual artist Alan Belcher explores an intersection between photography and sculpture, creating artworks he defines as ‘photo-objects’. His ‘_____.jpg’ study approaches the jpeg icon with a manner of directness and humour.

The installation shots from Belcher’s exhibition ‘Preview’ at Le Consortium assemble over one hundred ‘_____.jpg’ pieces in various layouts, causing a visual glitch between the gallery’s white wall and a folder of jpeg previews on a computer screen.

@balanelcher