Elisa Insua

January 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Argentina, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain

Born and raised as artist in Buenos Aires, Elisa Insua continues her upcycle practice after moving to Madrid

“Economic studies are based on a series of basic principles: one of them states that, for any given individual, “the more, the better”. My work tries to push this axiom to the limit of excess and abundance, in order to tense it, question it or even defy it.”

— Elisa Insua

“My pieces are about desire, opulence, ostentation and luxury. I apply the concept of the “hedonic treadmill” (the tendency of humans to return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite increases in wealth or the achievement of major goals) and the straight-forward myth of King Midas and his Golden Touch. Social ascent, the “American Dream”, economic inequality, endless irresponsible consumption and the effects of capitalism are also recurring themes.” text from MTArt Agency

Represented by Marine Tanguy Art Agency @MTArtagency

@elisainsua

Clio Newton

January 09, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Switzerland

Clio Newton’s approach to her compositions comes from the standpoint of the “female gaze” reflecting her interest in contemporary models of femininity and the representation of women in art and culture. Newton’s renderings in compressed charcoal feature larger-than-life, figurative subjects - often solo sitters - who fill the picture plane and beyond. Her works are remarkably realistic compositions informed by bold choices and her interest in the uncanny.

@clionewton

Baikal Fairytale by Kristina Makeeva

January 06, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Photography, Portfolios, Russia

Ultra-talented magician from Moscow, Kristina Makeeva, shares her lates fairytale made on the crystal clear frozen Lake Baikal

@hobopeeba

Dorothée Loriquet Sculpture

January 03, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, France, Sculpture, Portfolios

Mind-bending abstract ceramic sculpture comes out from the hands of artist Dorothée Loriquet based near Paris and represented by Modern Shapes Gallery (@modernshapes)

@dorothee_loriquet

Luiz Philippe Art of Stone

December 24, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Portfolios, Brazil, Sculpture

Brazilian artist Luiz Philippe uses stone, tiles and mosaics to create his suitcase sculptures you will never get a chance to sneak on any border

@luizphilippecm

May Parlar Photography

December 23, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Germany, Photography, Portfolios

“Berlin-based photographer and video artist May Parlar often uses outdoor open spaces for her impressive fine art photographs. She creates performative images exploring the human condition and the nomadic experience of ‘being’ in constructed realities. The idea of self, time & memory, the notions of belonging and alienation are recurrent themes in her practice.”

“I work across different mediums such as photography, film, performance art, sculpture, installation, and landscape art; and all of which gets merged in the end and put together with a glue that for me is the camera”

— May Parlar

@mayparlar

Blair Martin Cahill

December 23, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Craft, Portfolios, USA

“There are layers in all we see, do and present in our lives. These are the elements which we want to show, conceal, or perhaps only hint at. What is revealed is equally important to what is not, and both are needed to capture an entire vision.” - Blair Martin Cahil

Simon Hjortek

December 19, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Photography, Portfolios, Sweden

Strange Things happening on Simon’s Hjortek account who is in love with the beautiful & the bizarre. The weird & the wonderful. Also known under the pseudonym Magnificent Beast (@magnificentbeaststudios)

@Simonhjortek

Fluffy mogwai of Renee French

December 16, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Australia, Portfolios

Artist Renee French draws tiny fluffy creatures that seems to be completely innocuous. But somehow they fall into uncanny valley of perception with their exaggerated features of mogwai or gremlins

@reneefrench

Claudia Fontes ceramics "Fungus" sculptures

December 13, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Argentina, Portfolios, Sculpture, United Kingdom

Claudia Fontes is an Argentinean visual artist based in England who explores through her actions, objects and research the poetic space and alternative modes of perception of culture, nature, history and society that emerge from processes of decolonization, be they personal, interpersonal, or social. She is well-known for her work “The Horse Problem” - top art installation at Venice Biennial in 2017. Her recent ceramic sculptures are gripping each other tight as they are transformed into fungus like growths and spores in an eerie but romantic series.

Ruslan Onishchenko

December 10, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Portfolios, Russia

Artist Ruslan Onishchenko works mainly with oil on wood decorating self-made “Victorian" furniture with an illusive world full of divine characters.

@jean_r_o

Salman Khoshroo

December 06, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Iran, Portfolios

Salman Khoshroo, born 1983 in Iran, spent his childhood years in New York. After a few intermittent years in Iran he went to study in the Australian National University, where he received his degree in Digital Art. He currently lives and works in his studio in Tehran mainly with a large palette knife spreading oil colours directly on the canvas. Khoshroo’s paintings harness figurative abstraction to evince very concise figures of emotional tension.

@salmankhoshroo

Pokras Lampas ╳ Comme des Garcons at Dover Street Market, London

Dover Street Market

December 05, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Lettering, Street Art, Portfolios, Russia, United Kingdom

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Fashion label Comme des Garcons (@commedesgarcons) unveiled a colossal mural on the facade of Dover Street Market’s as a part of Dover Street Market’s 15th anniversary (@doverstreetmarketlondon). Designed by Rei Kawakubo and illustrated by Pokras Lampas, the monumental installation is the largest of a series of collaborations between Lampas and "Comme des Garçons" in Dover Street Market’s many international locations including Beijing, New York and Tokyo.

@pokraslampas

Kate MccGwire

December 04, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Sculpture, United Kingdom

Kate MccGwire is an internationally renowned British sculptor whose practice probes the beauty inherent in duality, employing natural materials to explore the play of opposites at an aesthetic, intellectual and visceral level. Growing up on the Norfolk Broads her connection with nature and fascination with birds was nurtured from an early age, with avian subjects and materials a recurring theme in her artwork

@kate_mccgwire

Loribelle Spirovski

The HOFA

December 02, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Australia, Portfolios

Contemporary portraitist and surrealist painter, Loribelle Spirovski, is set to have her first Solo Exhibition in London at HOFA Gallery. Titled Love, Death and The Time I Knew You, this solo show will assemble select artwork from her most successful collections, showcasing her prolific talent and remarkable growth as a contemporary artist.

Born in the Philippines in 1990, this Australian artist has fascinated audiences at home and abroad with her distinctive style and approach to contemporary portraiture. Though admittedly intuitive, Loribelle's artistic style is also decidedly cerebral, rooted in the myths, music, literature, pop culture and experiences that inspire her and make her art resonate with viewers.

Her most recent works are surreal explorations of the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit. Inspired by her experiences as a migrant to Australia, you can feel the claustrophobia emanate from the canvas. Employing disjointed bodies and hollow forms, she compels her viewers – who she describes as "meaning makers" to confront and contend with their own emotional abstractions.

@thehouseoffineart

@loribellespirovski

AVIVA by Heikki Leis

November 25, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Estonia, Portfolios

Artist from Tartu, Estonia, Heikki Leis shares his statement for AVIVA drawings series

You can enter at any given point and go whichever way you please. The circle has no
beginning and no end, no direction either. Too much freedom causes confusion, so people
have come up with their own notion of time that goes “clockwise”, following the hands of
time, on a growing scale. Increasing numbers, mounting years. Tic toc.

Death is transformation, like birth. Big events set the clock to zero again. Have you ever felt you’ve experienced a moment before? Relax, it’s because you have. In fact. Before. Or was it after.
In order to learn something, our previous self has to painfully shed the skin of previous
failed experiences to give our future self some advice for the road. No need to reject or
deny the feeling that sometimes you just know. In advance. For certain. Stuff that hasn’t
happened yet. Your inner feeling is correct. It’s possible to go there as well.

AVIVA is a circle of life in all its forms. Aviva as a palindrome; a word that moves both ways. A viva, as “up from the dead” in Latin; up from the dead, towards life, in the opposite
direction. Despite its static nature, the circle of “Aviva” is not a still life, nature morte, dead nature. The seemingly silent pictures aspire towards life, to light. A moment freezes and time will become nothing but an arbitrary construction, shackles we don’t need any longer.

You can enter at any given point and go whichever way you please

@heikkileis

Agnieszka Nienartowicz Art

November 22, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Poland, Portfolios

Young figurative painter from Poland, Agnieszka Nienartowicz, creates portraits of heavy tattooed ladies

@agnieszka.nienartowicz

Second Layer by Kim Byungkwan

November 18, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Portfolios, South Korea

“Classic icon must be distorted when they’ve got through all the journey of time and culture. What I can do is that just assume the PAST filtered through these thick and blur lenses. So, What I paint would not be the icon itself but the surface of lens of time, which might be just stretched, or by which the image could be deformed or vaguer.”

— Kim Byungkwan

@painterkim

Elisabetta Benassi

November 14, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Italy, Portfolios

Italian artist Elisabetta Benassi’s solo show, ‘The Sovereign Individual’ at Galerie Jousse Entreprise (@galeriejousseentreprise) in Paris (last year) presented a selection of the artist’s recent works, including two installations specially devised for the gallery space.

Elisabetta Benassi (Rome, 1966) is an Italian artist. In her work she critically observes the cultural, political and artistic legacy of modernity, as well as broader, often controversial political and cultural themes of our time. Using diverse media – installation, photography, video – she thus emotionally engages and questions the viewer while tracing troubled and contested timelines. From the background of her pieces emerges a questioning of contemporary identity and of the conditions of the present. Her work has been shown at several venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale.

Guda Koster

November 07, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Netherlands, Portfolios, Sculpture

Guda Koster is a Dutch artist who creates living sculptures and performances, which the photographs are the results of. Koster’s works are created in parallels of time, space and textile. In her works Koster uses fabrics, colours and patterns that underline the codes and meanings our clothing conveys

@guda_koster