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Graphic illustrations by Dima Kashtalyan

November 20, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Belarus, Portfolios, Illustration
@dkashtalyan

Minsk-based artist Dima Kashtalyan shares his black-and-white detailed ink drawings and same but scaled techniques he uses for creating urban art murals

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November 20, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
NOV
2020, Art, Belarus, Portfolios, Illustration

Ant Hamlyn Art

November 18, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, United Kingdom
@anthamlyn

Hamlyn's work delves into our relationship with modern technology to explore our shifting enthusiasms towards contemporary life. Working with a considered merging of carpentry, metalworking, digital design manufacture, electronics and coding. Hamlyn produce's sculpture, installations, paintings and performing spaces.

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November 18, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
2020, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, United Kingdom
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JAGO Sculptures

November 16, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Italy, Sculpture
@jago.artist

Young figurative artist from Italy Jago Jacopo Cardillo continuing to follow the canons of the classic sculpting school of Renaissance by creating masterpieces of marble that looks alive

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November 16, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
NOV
2020, Art, Italy, Sculpture
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Post Digital Art of Alexey Shahov

November 13, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Digital Art, Glitch, Germany, Portfolios
@shahishisname

“The worlds Alexey Shahov creates look like video games that are still in the process of being designed, as grey, uneven body parts with stickman-like features are partially covered by sprawling flashes of spray paint and pencil marks.“

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Read full interview on WeTransfer

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November 13, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
NOV
2020, Art, Digital Art, Glitch, Germany, Portfolios

Darian Mederos Art

November 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Cuba, Portfolios
@dr_mederos

Cuban artist Darian Mederos transforms his passion for the human figures and the study of Masters like Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and Diego Velazquez, that brought him to explore the ubiquitous human features.

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Looking through something is one of the many obsessions  that every artist has; Using an obstacle makes the vision more intriguing and less obvious: that's why Mederos has created a series of works that use bubble wrap over his subjects to obscure their form and features.

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HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art)
 
November 10, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
Darian Mederos, Latin American, DCN Club
2020, Art, Cuba, Portfolios

Solitude - Quietude - Contemplation by Nadav Kander

October 30, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Israel, Photography, Portfolios, United Kingdom
@nadavkander

Renowned portraiture and landscape photographer Nadav Kandar famous for his long-term projects depicting the power of nature and humanity. In his recent series “Solitude - Quietude - Contemplation” Nadav explores the solitude in the times of lockdown

“I think of a quote by Rilke: “Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.” So many feelings are at play and I was aware that in this quiet time there was a much bigger picture playing out, and it will continue to play out in our future.”
— Nadav Kander
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October 30, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT, British
2020, Art, Israel, Photography, Portfolios, United Kingdom
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Sasan Nasernia Calligraphy Art

October 29, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Iran, Lettering, Portfolios
@nasernia.art

Born in Tehran, Sasan Nasernia began his career primarily as a calligrapher and typography artist. Exploring different avenues in Persian classical and also modern calligraphy, he has since expanded his practice to include painting, print, digital work and installation. In his search to find a personal format of calligraphy, he has found a novel way of intertwining letters and words, which he refers to as “Crazy Kufic”.

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October 29, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT
2020, Art, Iran, Lettering, Portfolios

Paco Pomet Art

October 28, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Spain
@pacopomet

Digging the art of Paco Pomet is like constantly finding a golden nugget after another nugget and each time its getting better and bigger.

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October 28, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT
2020, Art, Portfolios, Spain
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Masks by Anastasia Pilepchuk

October 26, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Russia, Fashion
@nastia_pilepchuk

Moscow-based artist and fashion designer Anastasia Pilepchuk recently got an invite from Instagram for Business to create a series of masks inspired by the topic of “harmony breaks silence”. In collaboration with another artist Moritz Simon Geist they created an interactive versions of them

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“In my work I am interested in the notions of sublime and elusion, entering into a meditative process akin to a dream-like state. The real and the fantasy weave together, hiding behind the masks, threads and layers. Expression is channeled through those shapes, finding its intention and force both in the normality and in the surreal.

The method I use in my work is based on constructing an image or an object starting from the small building blocks, which, when gradually put together, let the pattern of the whole emerge. I like to reconsider materials and shapes, finding new ways to inscribe them into the real through the imagination and moments of improvisation that occur in repetitive work.”
— Nastya Pilepchuk
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October 26, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
Russian, OCT
2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Russia, Fashion

Visual Manipulations by Jie Ma

October 22, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, China, Art, Photography, Portfolios
@jiema37

Shanghai-based visual artist Jie Ma creates mind-bending manipulations by using all possible digital tools, from rendering to illustration. Just look!

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October 22, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT
2020, China, Art, Photography, Portfolios
Levitating 3D printed sculpture “Panopticon”

Levitating 3D printed sculpture “Panopticon”

Vladislav Mukhanov

October 21, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Russia, Sculpture
@mukhanov_vlad

Saint-Petersburg raised and based sculptor Vladislav Mukhanov experiments with forms and materials by creating thoughtful pieces and indoor installations

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Wax Monks at Russian-Japan joint exhibition of Young Talents, Manege, St.Petersburg, 2018

Wax Monks at Russian-Japan joint exhibition of Young Talents, Manege, St.Petersburg, 2018

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October 21, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
Russian, OCT
2020, Art, Portfolios, Russia, Sculpture

Plywood Mandala Art by Scheme

October 20, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Street Art, Russia

Russian artist working under Scheme moniker creates mind-blowing colourful mandalas of plywood by spraying and applying resin on small cutouts and than assembling it into 16- or more layered wall pieces.

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October 20, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT, Russian
2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Street Art, Russia

SOLE

October 19, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Digital Art, Italy, Portfolios

Interactive installation SOLE produced by artistic duo Quite Ensemble (Fabio di Salvo and Bernardo Vercelli)

@quiet_ensemble
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The space floats in a suspended time, inhabited by the sun's rays and the moving shadows that dominate the surrounding architectures. The audience crosses a timeless place, where time is different, where sunrise and sunset meet, the suns are multiple and the twilight drowns in a stroboscopic dawn. A 360 degree video-mapping that, thanks to the use of 49 video projectors, simulates the movement of the sun around and inside the hall of the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste.

October 19, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT
2020, Art, Digital Art, Italy, Portfolios

On the way home by Marcos Anziani

October 13, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, USA, Portfolios
 
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Marcos Anziani
Marcos Anziani
 
@marcosanziani

Young artist Marcos Anziani born in Dominican and based in New York brings a new breathe into the highly esteemed neo-expressionism. His artistic dialect is close to that of such artists as Willem de Kooning, Joan Miro and Jean Michel Basquiat. In each of paintings, Marcos aims to 'curb' the energy of color within the framework of a canvas. He combines abstract forms with primitivist images of people and objects done in simple lines.

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Various, mostly warm, colors balance the artistic chaos of forms in Marcos' paintings. His compositions remind us of Kandinskiy's abstractions. Marcos is actively evolving as an artist and seeks for an art that would continue the ways of the great artists of the XXth century.

Anziani understands painting as a means of expressing his emotions and thoughts. While working, he imagines himself being inside the painting and concentrates on one particular image or idea, finds a way to express them through painting and then develops the whole painting around them. He builds the composition from the inside, fully giving himself to it, and that produces actually sincere 'portraits' of the inner feelings of the artist, prints of the fly of his imagination.

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Marcos Anziani is exclusively represented by ASKERI GALLERY in Russia

 
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Polina Askeri
 
@marcosanziani
October 13, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT, American, Marcos Anziani, DCN Club
2020, Art, USA, Portfolios

The lost princess of nowhere: Olga Esther

October 12, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Spain

Valencia-based artist Olga Esther creates a visual stories of her imaginary princess world

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@olgaesther.pinturas
October 12, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT
2020, Art, Portfolios, Spain

Krista Kim - Continuum Remix v2

October 08, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Digital Decade, Canada, Portfolios, Art
 
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Krista Kim
 

Continuum Remix v.2 is the second in a series of works by Krista Kim in collaboration with Efren Mur (@efrenmur) and Ligovskoï (@ligvsk) to be released on Sedition Art platform. Continuum Remix v.1 was launched in Summer 2020 as part of the @Digital.Decade SE 2020 collection, curated by us - @Designcollector Network.

“Meditation will save us from the machine; art will save us from ourselves. I believe in the healing and transformational power of visual art + sound + meditation on an individual and a social level.
Our future is unknown and unstable. There are difficult times ahead due to social and economic unrest due to pandemic risk, digital disruption, automation and climate change. Collective fear is undeniable, but we cannot allow ourselves to be dominated by fear — we must face the unknown with open hearts and mindfulness. In chaos, there is creative opportunity. We must create a better future with compassion and love.
My collaboration with Efren Mur (video artist) and Ligovskoï (electronic music band) was created during the COVID-19 crisis. Our purpose is to present a vision of meditativeness and digital beauty to collective consciousness. The world is forever changed, and we must adapt with mindfulness, self care and connection to creative energy that will help us navigate the unknown.”
— Krista Kim
@krista.kim
October 08, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
Krista Kim, DCN Club
2020, Digital Art, Digital Decade, Canada, Portfolios, Art

Studio Studies

ГЦСИ Санкт-Петербург

Studio Studies

October 08, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Motioncollector, Russia

Studio Studies is a series of video interviews with St. Petersburg artists and a logical continuation of the work with the artists' studios, which was launched as part of the 1st Curatorial Forum. Then, in the fall of 2019, the artists of St. Petersburg opened the doors of their studios to the public. The program called Open Studios raised important questions about the ethics of visiting and hospitality, the attitude of the artist and the public, and the very essence of these private spaces.

In 2020, we continued to work with the studios, now in an exploratory way, to clarify for ourselves, the audience, and the artists the designated "blind spots". We revised the format of open studios in favor of videos about the artist's life in the studio. This decision was also forced by the epidemiological situation, in which we think it is right to avoid mass visits to the studios.

Calling the series Studio Studies, we appeal to an already existing field of knowledge, relatively developed in European and American art criticism. Studio Studies is an area of knowledge that explores the artist's studio as an ecosystem of aesthetic and material production, and as a place that defines the entire future cultural process. We asked questions about the artist's daily life, looked at internal processes and relations with the outside world, i.e. we were engaged in topology and ethics of these special spaces.

Based on a research perspective, we invited artists representing different types of contemporary art: painters, graphic artists, sculptors, photographers, media artists, activists, etc. in order to see, perhaps, the specific routine of each direction.

Curator: Anna Zavediy

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Studio Studies

Государственный Центр Современного Искусства в Санкт-Петербурге (Северо-Западный филиал ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина) @ncca_northwest при поддержке «Фонда поддержки инноваций и молодежных инициатив» представляют первую часть спецпроекта Studio Studies – девять видео-интервью с петербургскими художниками в их мастерских.

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Studio Studies – логическое продолжение работы с мастерскими художников, начатой осенью 2019 года. В рамках 1-го Кураторского форума была запущена программа Open Studios: во время Art Weekend художники Петербурга открыли двери своих мастерских для широкой аудитории. Программа, сфокусированная на этике посещения и гостеприимства, отношениях художника и публики, а также на самой сути этих приватных пространств, оказалась успешной. 

В 2020 году работа с мастерскими продолжается, теперь уже в исследовательском ключе. Формат открытых мастерских был пересмотрен в пользу фильмов о жизни художника в мастерской (или о жизни мастерской).

Мастерская художника – это пространство со своей экосистемой, как правило закрытое для широкой публики. В серии видеоинтервью исследуется повседневная жизнь художника в мастерской и таким образом десакрализуется художественный труд.


Ильдар Якубов в своей мастерской

Ильдар Якубов в своей мастерской

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STUDIO STUDIES

Серия исследовательских видеоинтервью с петербургскими художниками.

http://curatorialforum.art/2020studiostudies

Куратор: Анна Заведий (@anna_zavediy)
Участники: Анна Андржиевская, Ася Маракулина, коммунальная галерея «Егорка», Анна Прилуцкая, Никита Селезнёв, студия перформативных искусств «СДВИГ», Илья Смирнов, Наталья Тихонова, Ильдар Якубов.

@curatorialforum
October 08, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT, Russian, DCN Club
2020, Art, Motioncollector, Russia

Black is a Color by Tim Tadder

October 08, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Photography, Portfolios, USA

Photographer Tim Tadder speaks out for himself on his new project Black is a Color - “Black is a color demands that we look past skin tone, & into beautiful, infinitely complex humans whose lives matter equally. Black is a beautiful color & intrinsically linked to my own liberation as an artist.”

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“When primary colors are mixed at equal parts, black is ultimately the precipitating color. During the process, an imperial display of tones appears in the swirling to mirror powerful structure & emotion from the subjects. At a crucial time for the nation to unite, I hope this collection encourages empathy, unity & a non-binary view of race. Black is a color challenges one to see past profiling & foresee the beauty that is capable of elevating the human experience. Black is a color demands that we look past skin tone, & into beautiful, infinitely complex humans.”

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@timtadder
October 08, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
OCT, American
2020, Art, Photography, Portfolios, USA
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Endless by Juliette Clovis

September 20, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, France, Sculpture

French artist Juliette Clovis (@julietteclovis) released a new series of ceramic sculptures called "Endless", with "Samsara", "Black Knot" accompanied by "Manis Tetradactyla" on the view at Gent Design Museum in Belgium among their curated exhibition Kleureyck: Van Eyck’s Colours in Design, curated by Sigrid Demyttenaere (@designmuseumgent). Another work "Ananta" -  is currently exhibited in Four des Casseaux Museum Limoges in France among their curated exhibition Magie Noire  (@fourdescasseaux)

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@julietteclovis
September 20, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
juliette clovis, SEP
Art, Portfolios, France, Sculpture
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Bertjan Pot masks

September 15, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Netherlands, Portfolios

Bertjan Pot shares The Masks series begun in 2010 and still in progress, is an exploratory work on the subject. The idea originated in an unexpected reaction: wanting to make a carpet, Bertjan realises that once the textile assembled, curves are created. From there, he began to consider a first mask, the beginning of a long series. The possibilities are endless and the designer has since enjoyed creating each time new faces.

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@bertjan_pot_work
September 15, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
SEP
2020, Art, Craft, Netherlands, Portfolios
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