Cover Arts by Mateusz Lengling
Young Polish graphic artist Mateusz Lengling decomposes perfectly fashion photography then rebuild it to a new forms of visual arts
"Wurf" ("Throw") by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk
Danish-German artist duo Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk created a series of installations exploring “the relationship between sculpture and place”.
"Titled ‘Wurf’ (‘Throw’), the large-scale installation features a piece made of paper maché and wood that mimics a heavy stone. Displayed in a courtyard in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, ‘Wurf I’ is installed in a delicate green glasshouse. ‘Wurf II’ features the stone imitation hanging from the roof of a monastery church near Leipzig."
Beautiful and Bizarre sculptures by Qixuan Lim
Artist Qixuan Lim born-and-raised in Singapore and now based in Eindhoven makes these and several other tiny sculptures as a sideline to her work as an information designer
Colour Theory by Connor Singh
Colour Theory is a bold and sensual photographic project released by photographer Connor Singh that explores the beauty of the body. The luminescent light follows the curves of the body to form an ensemble that is both electric and almost erotic.
Burnt by the Sun MMXVII
"Burnt by the Sun" is ongoing series of photography started by Russian artists Sonya and Mark Whitesnow several years ago They manage to caught that "mellow brain" moment of models over-exposed on the sun during a photo session.
Liquid Gold Sculptures by Vanderlei Lopes
"In this ongoing body of sculptural works, Brazillian artist Vanderlei Lopes creates temporary interventions where his polished brass objects appear to pour and drain like gold from the walls or floors of galleries. Much of Lopes’ work plays with aspects of transformation, be it through the tension of liquid and solid forms seen here, by subtraction, or experimenting with orientation. You can see much more of his work on Artsy and Athena Contemporânea"
Advent Calendar 2017 by Mr Bingo
Guy behind "Hate Mail" and "quintessentially English" artist Mr Bingo (he once called us the peniscollector) is back again with his new Advert Calendar for December 2017. Same as last year approach, Mr Bingo called for the internet to crowdfund his new calendar with a simple challenge “NUDES WANTED, would you like to feature in my 2017 advent calendar?"
“Sorting through the applicants was a big job, I spent about 4 days stalking the 260 people online, looking for images of them and made a big spreadsheet of every single person, where they were in the world and a brief description of what they looked like. Then I somehow whittled it down to 25 people, trying to get as many different types of people represented.”
Imago SS18 by Konstantin Kofta
We have been following accessories designer Kostantin Kofta since his first release of anthropomorphic and architectonic collections a few years ago. Mainly backpacks, or simply handmade masterpieces, his new collection "Imago SS18" brings the sense of Nature and global awareness. The imago is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, it is the process of growth and development. Maturity doesn't mean age. It means a level of sensitivity. Nature does not require edging as a point of perfection.
Moodles
Moodles is a short animation based on the effects of negative emotions on one's self. It turns built up tension, stress, and anxiety into creative catharsis. Frozen figures – once paralyzed by moods – are reduced to heaps of flexible nothingness.
Directed by Ari Weinkle
Pippa Young Art
"Exuding a Renaissance aura and staring at the distance with haunted eyes, Pippa Young’s characters are born from a jumble of influences, the most notable of all being photographic imagery. The British artist’s characters, often young girls resembling art historical figures, seem displaced in time. Posing against unadorned backdrops and separated from imposed narratives, Young plays on the ambiguity of the figures, leaving us to construct our own stories and interpretations of each one."
Cole’s Cloud Study: The Fuck?
Dafuq? Athenaeum by Shawn Huckins
Athenaeum series by artist Shawn Huckins explores 18th and 19th century American painting and photography in context of 21st century lexicons - Facebook status updates, tweets, texting acronyms - that permeate today’s popular culture. The process is a methodical replication of the original work, each painted by hand followed by the superimposition of large white letters, also painted, of social media jargon
Shawn Huckins studio. Photo © Shawn Huckins.
George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait): I Can’t Pretend That This Is Poetry
Mrs James Warren: Blah Blah Blah
Shawn Huckins, Athenaeum, exhibition view. Photo courtesy Foster/White Gallery and the artist.
Midshipman Augustus Brine: You Have No Idea How Much I Love You, I Don’t Know Whatever
Mrs John Biddle: Delete Me
Richard Heber: To Dante, You’re All I Have, Just Please Don't Ever Text Me Again
Meet Photographer Mark Aghatise on ELLO
Mark Aghatise (@markaghatise) is a New York-based photographer and graphic designer who does a bit of everything. His clients include Nylon Magazine, Apple, VSCO, Ello, Cakeboy Magazine, and OKAY Africa.
Interviewer Mark Gelband (@markgelband) is Ello’s Chief Marketing Officer, an expert in container home construction, a long-time writer, and a local everywhere he goes.
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Butterflies on the walls by street artist Mantra
France-based street artist Mantra has been unveiling a series of trompe l’oeil murals that convert the facades of commercial and residential buildings into larger-than-life butterfly display cases in Spain, Austria, France, and Bogota. Seen here are a few pieces from the last year, but you can explore a bit more on Facebook
Girls are Cooler by Yuschav Arly
Yuschav Arly is a graphic designer and digital illustrator from Bali, Indonesia. After half a decade in the graphic design world, he now primarily focuses on digital illustration. His stunning, vector portraits of women are minimalistic and clean, yet elegant and full of restrained emotion.
A Cloud-Like Foam Installation By Kohei Nawa
Kyoto-based artist Kohei Nawa created a huge and immersive cloud-like installation made of small bubbles. Located in a dark room, the piece consists of floating foam that accumulates to form an ethereal structure that spreads across a space. In a statement about the artwork, Nawa says, “Each bubble cannot escape the cycle of birth and destruction, which is not unlike the way our cells operate as they metabolize and circulate.”
Dark Water: Alberta by Surmina Regina
Russian director Surmina Regina made an underwater campaign for Sasha Unisex temporary tattoos featuring famous Instagram divine Alberta
Eutow by Marpi
The resident of Digital Decade 5 - interactive artist MARPI shares his latest project - a Virtual Reality collaboration with Archan Nair, a series of 3D virtual worlds with music by An on Bast.
Brittabug Photography
Michigan-based artist and portrait photographer Britta explores her inner world within each shot and reveals untouchable sexuality as a state of art neither self promotion.
Rebecca Hastings Art on ELLO
DCN Partners at ELLO Creative Network presents
Australian artist Rebecca Hastings "draws a line between the technological suffusion of first world childhood and environmental neglect .. The children in Hastings’ works are strangely ambiguous: simultaneously of this world and alien, contemporary and futuristic, childlike and ageless. They could be representations of the real, or they could be fantasy humans like those created in the digital quest for verisimilitude — the quest that has given us the term ‘uncanny valley’ to denote the point at which the synthetic human’s fine differentiation from the real causes abjection."
Evelyn Bencicova Art Photography
Evelyn Bencicova is a visual creative focusing mainly on the medium of photography and art direction. Born in Bratislava, Slovakia Evelyn studied fine art and new media at University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Today combining her academic research with interest in contemporary visual culture, Evelyn’s work is unmistakable for her signature timelessness and individual aesthetic. Here we share one of her numerous projects "Taste of Leaving"
