One Thousand Stories by JR

June 12, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, France, Art, Motioncollector, USA

In his easiest manner of a humanist, French artist JR recently finished a large scale project “One Thousand Stories” - the Chronicles of San Francisco, and a video mural of 1206 San Franciscans now on the view at @SFMOMA

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The Chronicles of San Francisco, a video mural of 1206 San Franciscans @sfmoma 📸 @marc @camille

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The film directed by Tasha van Zandt is currently exhibited at SFMOMA alongside of JR’s mural. After a first mural in Les Bosquets, a neighbourhood near Paris where he has worked for many years, JR chose San Francisco. A city very rich in contrasts, whose recent history could be told in a powerful way through a mural. Since the visit of Diego Rivera in 1931, San Francisco has a long muralist tradition. The city features immense innovation and wealth as well as one of the highest rates of homelessness in the country. In, 2018, JR and his team spent a month roaming the city of San Fransisco, parking their 53' trailer truck in 24 different locations, to capture anyone who wished to participate, directly from the streets. As a result, over 1,200 people have been filmed, photographed and interviewed; each person choosing the way they are represented in the fresco.

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Liu Di

June 03, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Digital Art, China, Photography, Portfolios, TOP 2019

From a massive animal sitting amidst a sprawl of slum housing to a giant man with a hyperrealistic face that nevertheless seems to be more plastic than flesh, jarring contrasts are often used to great effect in establishing the sense of surrealism in the works of Chinese visual artist Liu Di

In Animal Regulation, Liu reevaluates the relationship between civilization and nature by placing gargantuan animals in unexpected urban settings.

@liudi_a

Sanctum by Levi van Veluw

May 30, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Netherlands, Portfolios, TOP 2019

Dutch artist Levi van Velum created an immersive installation “Sanctum” curated by Angel Moya Garcia

“The installation Sanctum, developed especially for Tenuta Dello Scompiglio, testifying of a fictitious religious conviction, engages all the senses of the visitor. The last room where visitors ended their journey in Kerguénnec, "The relativity of the matter", becomes the starting point for a more elaborate proposition in the expositive space of Dello Scompiglio. Levi van Veluw based Sanctum on of the first religious buildings, the Tabernacle, also called the tent of meeting. This tent served as a place of worship and symbolised God’s presence amidst those who had gathered.”

@levivanveluw

Artrium - The Beginning

May 23, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Street Art, Motioncollector

Artrium is a new space born in Moscow a year ago and you may remember calligraphy artist Pokras Lampas doing his work inside pedestrian passage last year. This year team @ArtriumMoscow went further and invited world leading street artists to create legend murals from the walls of the building.

11 Artists are: Shepard Fairey (@obeygiant), Felipe Pantone (@felipepantone), Tristan Eaton (@tristaneaton), Ben Eine (@einesigns), @PichiAvo, Okuda San Miguel (@okudart), Pokras Lampas (@pokraslampas), @Faith47, @WKInteract, Faust, Haculla.

ABC FW19 by Konstantin Kofta

May 13, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Fashion, Art

Konstantin Kofta released a new collection of wearable art mixing 20s century avant-guard practice with modern methods of post-human relationships

“Relationship of man and space, the synthesis of technical and creative, making the form is absolute by bringing to geometrical perfection. Forms cleared from any symbolism and metaphoricity, repeatability, monochrome, neutral surfaces, industrial materials and methods of manufacture. ABC seeks to convey the simplified essence and form of objects, cutting offsecondary images and shells.The symbolism prevails based on three main figures also colors, dots and lines”

@konstantinkofta

Dalí Lives

Dali Museum

May 11, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Digital Art, USA

“I believe in general in death, but in the death of Dali, absolutely not.” Salvador Dalí

Just in time of his 115 Anniversary, St.Petersburg (Florida, US) museum of Salvador Dalí brought him back alive using AI technologies

“The exhibition, called Dalí Lives, was made in collaboration with the ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (GS&P), which made a life-size re-creation of Dalí using the machine learning-powered video editing technique. Using archival footage from interviews, GS&P pulled over 6,000 frames and used 1,000 hours of machine learning to train the AI algorithm on Dalí’s face. His facial expressions were then imposed over an actor with Dalí’s body proportions, and quotes from his interviews and letters were synced with a voice actor who could mimic his unique accent, a mix of French, Spanish, and English.”

“With 45 minutes of newly created footage and thousands of combinations, each visitor gets a different experience. There are scenes that open with him reading the newspaper, with an overlay of the current front page of The New York Times; if it’s raining, he’ll comment on the weather”

@dalimuseum

Gastón Ugalde

May 09, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Bolivia, Portfolios, Photography

Gastón Ugalde, born 1944 in La Paz, Bolivia (Venice Biennale 2009, 2001) is considered a visual arts leader in the region. His work is deeply rooted in Bolivian traditions and filled with socio-political references.

#gastonugalde

Concept illustration by Daria Ozerova

May 03, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Ukraine, Portfolios

Ukrainian artist Daria Ozerova creates illustration and characters leaving a lot of space for thoughts for a viewer

@ozero__

Samuel De Maré

April 26, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Belgium, Portfolios

The work of fine artist Samuel de Mare is in a perpetual state of flux. His paintings constantly change focus, taking different paths through a scene to try to capture his intention. Following the frustrations and decisions within his process becomes part of the joy.

@samuel_de_mare

Aakash Nihalani

April 24, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, USA, Portfolios, Art

“Aakash Nihalani is known for his illusionist interventions that push the boundaries between two and three dimensions. Though he started off using using tape to form ephemeral installations, in the last few years Nihalani has moved into more permanent territory, working with wood and metal to form free-standing and wall-mounted sculptures.”

@aakashnihalani

Kwang Young Chun

April 24, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, South Korea, Portfolios

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“South Korean artist Kwang Young Chun wraps tiny geometric packages in paper and combines them into massive wall-mounted and freestanding assemblages. Each composition is composed of thousands of individual mulberry paper parcels, carefully toned with tea and pigment and including the abstracted characters that allude to the paper’s origins as old documents. The works, which Chun refers to as ‘agreggations’, feature gradations in color and smooth craters within their highly textured surfaces.”

@kwangyoungchun

Luca Boni

April 18, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Illustration, South African Republic, Portfolios

Artist and illustrator Luca Boni based in Johannesburg creates eerie but eye-catchy artworks

@Artoflucaboni

RORSCHACH by Cj Hendry

Dumbo

April 09, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, USA, Portfolios

Hyper-realistic artist, CJ Hendry, is bringing her 6th solo exhibition: RORSCHACH to Brooklyn through April 21. Known for her iconic black and white pen drawings of pop culture objects, is furthering her exploration of color and abstract forms.

“I think what makes Rorschach tests so intriguing is that, unlike questionnaires and other language-based approaches to personality assessment, you are presented with a visual task. There is a fascinating correlation of science and art, objectivity and subjectivity, ultimately this series is the science of artistic response as the key to personality”

— Cj Hendry

During the exhibit, guests will navigate through a 3,000 square foot bounce house that features padded walls and floors to feel like an old school insane asylum. The bounce house has taken over a year to plan, cut and sew to fit the Dumbo space perfectly. With 6 blowers standing 14-foot-high, the bounce house can accommodate up to 100 people at a time.

RORSCHACH : 10th – 21st April
10am – 9pm
202 Plymouth Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn
Tickets $10 – only available upon entry

www.cjhendry.live

@cj_hendry

Abstract Portraits Kai Samuels-Davis

April 03, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Portfolios, USA

California-based artist Kai Samuels-Davis creates abstract portraits using large brush strokes and washed colour palette

@kaisamuelsdavis

Slow Lens by Vincent Leroy

March 31, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, France, Portfolios

“Slow Lens is the newest piece from French artist Vincent Leroy, who often explores optics and light in his large-scale installation work. The piece is suspended from above, and a network of curved, translucent lenses distorts the viewer’s perspective. Displayed en plein air, the connected lenses slowly rotate and ofter multiplied visions of the surrounding environment. Leroy installed and documented Slow Lens in various locations around Paris, including in highway lanes that were vacant due to pollution-induced city traffic restrictions.” via @Colossal

@vincent_leroy_studio

KAWS COMPANION on holiday in Hong Kong

March 26, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Hong-Kong

“COMPANION, a 121-foot-long inflatable sculpture by street artist @KAWS, launched today at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. The reclined, monochrome figure is the largest to date for the American artist, with recent previous iterations of the project installed at the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, and on Seokchon Lake in Seoul, South Korea. The figure was purposefully designed to be in a peaceful repose, its crossed-out eyes gazing at the sky above.”

“I was thinking of all the tension in the world, and I wanted to create work that would make people think about relaxing. And there’s nothing more relaxing than lying on your back in water and looking up at the sky”

— Kaws

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The work was launched by Hong Kong-based creative studio AllRightsReserved for the annual Hong Kong Arts Month, and will continue to occupy the harbor until March 31, 2019

Photo by Tsing Yi

@KAWS

Western Taiwanese by Mariia Ominina

March 20, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Russia, Typography

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Mariia is a poster designer from Russia, she works as a digital artist, but mostly creates posters. Also, Mariia is a student of the world-famous poster artist Peter Bankov.

For the past few years, Mariia has traveled and worked extensively in Asia. She explored cultural differences, the reasons for the immigration of Western people who come to live in Asia, and the difficulties they face living in Asian countries.

Mariia's travels and explorations resulted in a three-month solo exhibition entitled "Western Taiwanese", which opened in Dounan City in November 2018. For this exhibition, the artist prepared a series of poster, and also for the first time worked in video art and installation formats.

In her posters, Mariia tried to visually reflect her impression of Yunlin County, where she lived at the time. She used a variety of visual research methods to capture cultural landscapes while creating the style of her posters. For example, she used Google Earth footage for the visuals, and Mariia also worked with local historians in the archives department. Mariia has created a vibrant palette of 6 colors along with a dynamic composition that together reflects the brilliance and quirkiness of Taiwanese nature.

Wang Chia Wei, curator of this exhibition, says Maria's exhibition was a completely new way to see Taiwanese culture. She also added that these posters are more like hokku, where the artist expresses deep meaning in simple words.

Mariia Ominina's project "Wester Taiwanese" is a fresh look at the world of poster art, where the artist expresses herself not through direct visual clues, but via vague images or meanings. Mariia managed to capture the connection between meanings and the visual component in the paradigm of postmodern aesthetics, where the classical "laws" and "norms" in design have ceased to be decisive. Her posters are lively and interesting, plunging into the confluence of new-old art, that borders between meaning and visuality; conceptualism and avant-garde.

Elodie Milan Photography

March 11, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, France, Photography, Portfolios

Elodie Milan is a french photographer very inspired by paintings from The Renaissance.

She sacralizes her friends and empowered them with lights from Caravage and sometimes thanks to their clothes, an other big theme in her work

@elodie.milan

Las Catástrofes by Mateo Pizarro

February 20, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Mexico, Portfolios

A series of drawings of imagined disasters drawn by Mateo Pizarro. The series is being shown in a similar arrangement in HeartEgo, a contemporary art gallery in Monterrey, Mexico.