Jie Ma Digital Art
Join the imaginary digital world of concept artist Jie Ma based in Shanghai. Meet you in his epic environments that may exist in a post-digital era very soon.
3D Printed Textscape project by Hongtao Zhou
3D Printing brings new opportunities for creative persons, just take a look at typography project created by Hongtao Zhou. Textscape generates letter-sized 3D documents to visually profile the subject matters of the texts, such as cities, landscapes or figures. These documents make reading interactive for a general audience or blind people to read as knowledge, as well as art. This series of work has text variations of braille, language characters, calligraphy and number systems to bridge the text and its visuality in architecture, landscape, portraits and abstract matters.
Sculpture by Ah Xian
Chinese artist Ah Xian lives and works in Sydney where for nearly two decades he has explored aspects of the human form using ancient Chinese craft methods including porcelain, lacquer, jase, bronze, and even concrete. The artist often uses busts of his own family members including his wife, brother, and father onto which he imprints traditional designs with a vivid cobalt blue glaze. via Colossal
Hair Highway
Hair Highway is a China-based project from nomadic design duo Studio Swine exploring the potential of human hair beyond its wildly expanding role in the beauty industry. As the world’s population increases, human hair is re-imagined as an abundant and renewable alternative to diminishing resources such as horn, tortoise shell or tropical wood. By investigating the trade and craft around the hair industry in Shangdong province, Studio Swine explores the potential of human hair by creating new materials and a collection of exquisite objects.
http://vimeo.com/98210665
Catable
Internet is run by cats. No doubts. Chineses designer from Lycs Architecture - Ruan Hao created a special table for their perpetual curiosity. CATable will probably save you from the sentimental ritual to put away the cat from your laptop.
My Toy Plane by Varun Thota
Macau-based web designer Varun Thota has a fun, imaginative photo series called ‘#mytoyplane’ that shows a toy plane soaring in the sky.Guided by his hand, the toy plane can be seen weaving through “skyscrapers, city streets and the Macau countryside”.
Chineasy
When ShaoLan Hsueh realised her children didn't have the patience to learn Chinese, she wanted to simplify it for them – so she worked with graphic artist Noma Bar on a new book that turns a fiendish world into a visual treat called Chineasy. It is a visual-based learning system which teaches Chinese characters, simple stories & phrases. This building block system allows learners learn speedily with great fun enjoying Chinese history, classical and pop culture.
Beside the beautiful website full of colourful illustrations you can order a book on iTunes (few left as a hardcopy here) that ShaoLan has kickstartered a few months ago to keep Chinese easy for everyone.
Everything Illuminates by Jiang Pengyi
Jiang Pengyi‘s latest series, Everything Illuminates, sees the artist mixing fluorescent powders with liquid wax, and applying it to various, commonly-found objects.
According to the Hunan-Province-born artist’s statement, these images “suggest the artist’s changing focus back to original form and shape, at the same time reflect his current state of mind.”
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Hong Chun Zhang
In case of hair phobia close the website. Otherwise please enjoy the artwork of Hong Chun Zhang having a clear and excellent obsession with hairs.
The idea of my graphite hair drawings and oil paintings is about humor, beauty and repulsion. To me, long hair not only looks beautiful, but sometimes it can be very unattractive in particular settings such as hair in the hamburger, egg, wineglass, cigarette, toothpaste and sink. I combine hair and daily used objects to evoke different feelings and emotions through a surrealistic approach.
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Lantomo
Italian illustrator Antonella Montes formed her artistic manners in Barcelona inspired by its subculture and now has moved to Beijing
Flexible Paper Sculptures of Li Hongbo
The creativity has no limits and boundaries and it can stretches and be flexible just like paper sculptures of Beijing artist Li Hongbo "A book editor and designer, the artist became fascinated by traditional Chinese toys and festive decorations known as paper gourds made from glued layers of thin paper which can be stored flat but then opened to reveal a flower or other shape. He applied the same honeycomb-like paper structure to much larger human forms resulting in these highly flexible sculptures." says Colossal
http://vimeo.com/54967505
http://vimeo.com/55336193
IDENTITY by Jeffrey Wang
"This is a chronicle progression of a woman. A woman who morphs from innocence to struggles, and back to innocence. From a state of purity, when there is no good and bad, to sophistication, which comes with seduction, greed, debauchery amongst all other evils that dominate the world. On the verge of decadence she struggles, for individuality, for virtue, for her own soul. In the end amidst all chaos, she unites with peace of mind, living with a sober fact that she is just one of them, and she can’t hide. That is her IDENTITY, whether she likes it or not." Fashion photographer Jeffrey Wang speaks for himself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRDjpOfZ5Cw&feature=youtu.be
Ordos - A Skate Trip to Inner Mongolia
Filmmaker Charles Lanceplaine went on a skate trip to Ordos, a test-tube city located in the remote area of Inner Mongolia. Dubbed “the Dubai of northern China” the city is crammed full of buildings, which seem to be built for the sole purpose of being skated on. Considering Ordos is designed to house a millions of people, but is actually inhabited by merely a few millions just adds to that feeling. Directed, filmed & edited by: Charles Lanceplaine Additional filming: Patrik Wallner & Tommy Zhao
http://vimeo.com/51333291
Photography of Ren Hang
Provoking, intensive and sensible shots tell a story of surreal solitude crossing with harsh relations captured by Ren-Hang
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RIP. 24/02/2017
Volvo Art Session
7 Chinese artists from our partners at NeochaEDGE portal were asked to recreate the visual image of Volvo Hybrid car within a 30+ square meter background canvas behind it. That was a live performance in Zurich this June, shot by renowned photographer Francesco Carrozzini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LXo2Xw4MIk&feature=player_embedded
View full credits, all videos and photos on http://www.volvoartsession.com
Ling Jian art
China-born and world based contemporary artist Ling Jian creates captivating and sometimes provoking canvases portraying faces in a strange and surreal way.
Zhaohua Sen photography
Chinese photographer Zhaohua Sen‘s photo series depicts bike riders floating in mid air and riding “invisible” bicycles.
Zhang Weber illustration
Chinese artist Zhang Weber doing interesting and a bit romantically naive illustrations for Beijing customers
