Hana Ju

March 26, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, South Korea, Portfolios

El Greco, Salvador Dalí and Egon Schiele went in to the bar and met Hana Ju depicting the madness of real world in a way she got blood mix from all of them.

“I looked at myself on the canvas, painted with different colors, and I faced the courage that I still could not get through. I decided to subtract a lot of the rhetoric that I used to express myself. I pulled away from the bubbles and decoration which was on me, just me being myself, I took out the colors on my canvas to meet my raw self. Through this series of processes, I tried to look at myself, who was in a deeper place, that I ignored, as who I am. I want to accept it. I believe that my gaze will be able to face others without judging, and accept them as who they are.”

— Hana Ju

Danielle Orchard

March 26, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, USA

Danielle Orchard is a New York-based painter zooming on the female universe. Her abstract art, at times, evokes associations with cubism – the subject makes the difference

@daniorchard

Labyrinth by Gijs van Vaerenbergh

March 23, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Belgium

“In the industrial city of Genk in Belgium, a kilometer of steel corridors was constructed to form a mechanical-look maze at a former coal mine. The installation titled Labyrinth is created as a spiral experience by Gijs van Vaerenbergh in collaboration with the Belgium architect Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh.

The labyrinth contains various openings and perspectives throughout the maze and makes the viewer experience an ever-changing relationship with the surrounding urban environment.” via @trendland

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Continuum by Krista Kim

March 18, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Digital Art, Motioncollector, USA

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Mediative light installation piece from #techism creator Krista Kim title “Continuum”

Mirror or the mind.

“When I lived in Tokyo, I was a newcomer to the city and I would discover the it on foot, navigating the Japanese signage, architecture and overall system of life. On a spring day, I wandered down side streets in my neighborhood, and I suddenly chanced upon a serene Zen garden. This Zen garden was an energetic vacuum because the world seemed to stop when I stepped inside it’s parameters. I stood still, fascinated by the beauty of negative space, peace and silence. I felt serenity. It was in that moment when I understood the principle of Zen and the meaning of art.
For centuries, Zen masters created these gardens with the intention of creating empty space in the mind of the viewer.

Art is a mirror of the mind.

I realized that our digital environment, though it is virtual, is a parallel reality of human existence—this environment is new, chaotic and distracting. The key to connecting to our humanity is to find and protect our inner sanctum of silence and peace. Younger generations are at high risk of losing this inner sanctum from digital technology.
I created a digital zen garden. One that communicates pure consciousness in the digital medium through the powerful harmony of color, light and sound.”

Music by Ligovskoï

@krista.kim

Shuster+Moseley and Lauren Baker at AZIMUTH

March 17, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Sculpture, United Kingdom

Last weekend MTArt Agency launched public art at AZIMUTH music festival, that took place in the very special historical site of Al Ula.
For this special occasion, exclusive sculptures were commissioned by Shuster+Moseley and Lauren Baker on the themes the Sun, mix of cultures and discovery.

Shuster + Moseley is a conceptual art studio led by Claudia Moseley (b. 1984) and Edward Shuster (b. 1986). The studio creates light-mobiles, sculptural installation and immersive, meditative environments reflecting on the nature of consciousness and technology.

@shuster_moseley

Lauren Baker, born 1982, from Middlesbrough, UK. Currently lives and works in London. Lauren Baker is a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist who exhibits internationally. Her work explores the fragility of life, energy-fields, the after-life and other dimensions. Using neon light to express universal energies and life mantras, she aims to raise the vibration of love and connection within the world.

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Photography by Roman Scott @romanscott

@mtartagency

Music to your eyes

March 13, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Portfolios

Creative duo Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree delivered their first international exhibition “Music To Your Eyes”. They bring our distinctly optimistic, unapologetically vibrant, and supremely fun world of explosive colour to Calm and Punk's gallery space in Tokyo.

Music to your eyes is an exploration of harmony through visual stimulation of our work in order to explore colour and form. Our goal is to ignite a sensation for the viewer that is optimistic yet also leaves them with a sense of joy. Ultimately it is our way we describe our work: as visual music. Similar in concept to audible music, everything we look at and engage with has its own rhythm. Through the use of multiple mediums ranging from photography, wall reliefs, inflatables and a virtual reality experience, we encourage visitors to enter their world of insatiable optimism and explosive color.

@wadejeffree

@letasobierajski

The photographs on these walls are real—they are not 3D. The bodysuits were designed specifically for this show, and the sculpted shields held by those bodies were cut and painted by hand. We embrace the fact that they are imperfect and flawed. In the photographs on the walls, we camouflage ourselves as body sculptures, drenched in pattern and color that transcends from these images to sculptural wall hangings to inflatables hanging from the ceiling and finally to virtual reality discoverable through a headset. Our goal is to extend their vision to multiple dimensions, so you may enjoy their colorful world no matter which reality you may live in.

Shifting Perspectives by Petecia Le Fawnhawk

March 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Photography, Portfolios

Photographer Petecia Le Fawnhawk is known for creating striking surrealist landscapes using a mix of sculpture and editing techniques. Her new series “Shifting Perspectives” was recently commissioned by Apple and they looks like a “Monument Valley” recreated in real life

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Zhuang Hong Yi at HOFA Gallery

New HOFA

February 28, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Events, United Kingdom

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Zhuang Hong Yi Headlines Official Launch of HOFA Gallery’s New State-of-the-Art Flagship Gallery in Mayfair, London (18 March 2020)

In what is set to be a defining moment in London’s art scene this year, HOFA Gallery will launch their new flagship space in the heart of London’s prestigious Mayfair on 18 March 2020. The highly anticipated state-of-the-art 4000 sq. ft space will see HOFA make their permanent mark on the art world to the delight of collectors and enthusiasts in London and international art markets.

HOFA will commemorate the launch with an inaugural exhibition featuring a new and innovative collection of captivating and vibrant sculptural paintings of renowned contemporary artist, Zhuang Hong Yi. Colourful, exquisitely detailed and inspired by nature, Zhuang’s 3-dimensional paintings have been a favourite with collectors since his emergence as an artist of reckoning. His ‘Flowerbed’ and ‘Landscape’ series have won him the attention of art connoisseurs globally.

Zhuang’s newest and most daring explorations of colour and structure within these series will make their début at the March 2020 solo exhibition. Developed in his signature sculptural style which captures his visceral expressions on canvas, the art to be unveiled highlight Zhuang’s journey of artistic discovery and self-development. The show promises to mark a major milestone in the evolution of this artist whose work endlessly fascinate and intrigue even as they harken to the sometimes-chaotic beauty of nature.

HOFA Gallery has built a reputation for representing ground-breaking contemporary artists and producing some of the most well-received art exhibitions of recent times in their galleries spread across London, Los Angeles and Mykonos. Their current portfolio of 30 global artists includes headline names such as Marco Grassi, Joseph Klibanksy, Camille Hannah, Emmanuella Rybojad and Loribelle Spirovski as well as other acclaimed Asian artists like Ilhwa Kim and Wang Ziling.

Founded by Elio D'Anna and Simonida Pavicevic in 2012, HOFA Gallery has grown exponentially in a few years, largely due to their commitment to diversity and foresight in supporting talented emerging artists from around the world. HOFA's rich portfolio of artworks in diverse media has also proven to be a strong selling point as it affords collectors and art lovers a taste of the various artistic disciplines that characterise contemporary art today.

The scheduled launch of the flagship gallery has been years in the making. Describing the significance of the event, co-founder, Elio D'Anna, says "From this year we will be in a better position to bring the most exceptional contemporary artworks to the world’s stage, and create lasting success for the artists who created them and our collectors who acquire them. Our vision is to nurture diversity and cultural inclusiveness in the world of contemporary art through excellence, integrity and innovation.

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HOFA’s new gallery is located at 11 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London. The inaugural exhibition features Zhuang Hong Yi’s new collection from 18 March to 7 April 2020.

@thehouseoffineart

Art of Brian Alfred

February 27, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, USA

American artist Brian Alfred is best known for his collages, paintings, and digital animations. He works fluidly between classic and contemporary media like drawing and digital art, and he depicts subject matters that range from architecture and technology to modern idealism and romantic heroism. Best known for his works that examine how people's perception of their surrounding world and culture is mediated by technology, Alfred's practice is often accounted for as socio-critical and a mirror of our contemporary times.

He creates flattened and usually depopulated worlds of color reproduced in two dimensional bold patterns, often derived from found images. Alfred explores the effect public imagery has on individual perceptions of reality by using newspaper photographs, television advertising, and the internet as source. Inscrutable scenes in his paintings and animations remind the viewer of how public media tend to show a glimpse of reality: relevant information is cropped out of the image and the overall picture is flattened into a coherent colourful narrative of a simple ideology.

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Miloš Hronec Art

February 25, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Slovakia

Miloš Hronec focuses mainly on painting, but also on digital drawing and collage. He comes from Bratislava and this environment has gradually formed him artistically.

@milos.hronec

Drawings by Henrique de França

February 17, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Brazil, Portfolios

An unconventional love is what we feel looking at drawings of Henrique de França. Some untold stories, unseen characters and unsolved plots leaved behind the frame… so tempting and intriguing

@henrique_defranca

Emograms by kissmiklos .

February 12, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Hungary, Portfolios, Sculpture

Budapest-based artist and designer Miklós Kiss aka @kissmiklos shares his latest public art affair “emograms” he presented as a part of solo exhibition at Lotte Gallery, Incheon, South Korea, 2020

The exhibition consists of two parts. The first space is built around emograms and the installation Ball.Room. The second displays a new installation called, LOVE field, and a typography-based sculpture.

Miklós Kiss’s works incorporate various facets of architecture, fine art, design, and graphic design. A strong artistic approach and outstanding aesthetic quality characterise his art. His fine art pieces are just as significant as his distinctive style in corporate identity and graphic designs.

These giant badges are based on the first Smiley, which was originally a badge itself. The „smiley“ was born in 1963 when Harvey R. Ball, owner of an advertising agency in the USA, came up with the idea to use it to lift the mood of the workers of a recently merged insurance company.

Check his 2nd part of exhibition called “LOVE” on Behance

@kissmiklos

Gustavo Amaral Collages

February 11, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Graphic Design, Brazil, Portfolios

Gustavo Amaral is a Brazilian artist who creates photographic collages that explore the human form. His works capture simultaneously the body in its external form, and the inner emotions and psyche the exist beneath its shell.

The artist graduated in his hometown of Belo Horizonte with a degree in Journalism before pursuing his passion for photography and filmmaking in Sao Paulo. His work has been shown frequently in both Brazil and Holland

@gustavoamaral

Isometric Geometry 2020 by Matt W. Moore

February 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, USA, Street Art, Portfolios

Talented geometric abstraction artist Matt W. Moore shares his new 2020 series of spray paint on canvas

@mwm_graphics

Marynn

February 07, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, France, Illustration, Portfolios

Marynn is French artist based in Biarritz. Her style is influenced by the rollercoaster of love & life, she likes to play with symbolism, imagining stories articulated with femininity and poetry. Sometimes with her hyperrealistic style in graphite or oil painting, sometimes with photography or typography. She likes to explore different styles and techniques, keeping her curiosty awake to navigate into her dreamy world.

@marynn_marynn

Sergey Gannotsky

February 05, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Photography, Portfolios, Russia

Russian photographer and visual artist Sergey Gannotsky shares his latest project “Contact2020”

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LUNA by SpY

February 05, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Street Art, Spain

To mark the celebration of the 50th anniversary of man’s landing on the moon (1969-2019), urban artist SpY reproduced a waxing crescent “LUNA” installed on one of the construction cranes of the Caleido complex, in the north of Madrid

SpY is an urban artist whose first endeavors date back to the mid-eighties. Shortly after, already a national reference as a graffiti artist, he started to explore other forms of artistic communication in the street. His work involves the appropiation urban elements through transformation or replication, commentary on urban reality, and the interference in its communicative codes.

@spyurbanart

Hong Chun Zhang Hairy Art

January 31, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, China, Portfolios, 2020

Chinese artist Hong Chun Zhang‘s graphite hair drawings and oil paintings are all about humor, beauty and repulsion. Since our last review in 2013, Hong continues experiments with the most radical meta-human object - hairs.

Tyler Mitchell Photography

January 30, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Photography, Lifestyle, Portfolios, USA

Tyler Mitchell is a young photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, working across many genres to explore and document a new aesthetic of blackness. Mitchell is regularly published in avant-garde magazines and commissioned by prominent fashion houses.

In 2018 he made history as the first black photographer to shoot a cover of American Vogue for Beyoncé’s appearance in the September issue. In 2019 a portrait from this series was acquired by The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for its permanent collection. This, alongside many other accomplishments, has established Mitchell as one of the most closely watched up-and-coming talents in photography today.

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“Tyler Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good” is on view now through May 18, 2020, at the International Center of Photography (@icp)

Silk Art Installation by Pokras Lampas

January 20, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Photography, Russia

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Pokras Lampas performed large silk-based calligraphy art installation presented in the Old House in Shanghai, China

“CHINA, as the epicenter of work with silk, has historically been a place of strength, knowledge and inspiration associated with silk-based arts and crafts, therefore it is symbolic for me to present my first project with this material there.

Working with fashion 5 recent years, I’ve often seen great works with fabrics: prints, patterns, color, rhythm, texture — which is connected with creating bold images and connected not only with art or fashion, but also with non-verbal communication in the new environments, because the artwork speaks of itself better than any words”

— Pokras Lampas

Photo: @Denbych \ Denis Bychkovsky, 2019

@pokraslampas