Puddle Sculptures by Jeffrey Michael Austin

January 19, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Portfolios, USA, 2018

The Puddles came from my desire to make work that at first glance feels mundane and unassuming, a candid situation you wouldn’t immediately regard as or associate with an art experience,” said Austin. “I’d hoped that in this way they would gently present themselves as yet another detail of your natural environment, before then unfurling with a kind of subtle and surprising magic — an extraordinary quality that you have to grapple with for a moment before facing it with any criticality."

jeffreymichaelaustin.com

Wang & Söderström Phygital Art

Volvo Studio Stockholm

January 18, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Sweden, Art, 2018

When digital meets physical anything can happen and Stokholm based duo Anny Wang & Tim Söderström managed to push their screen art into the real world

"Transitional Speculation is Wang & Söderström’s first major exhibition in Stockholm and “is the first time where we have a platform where we can showcase a broader perspective of our works,” says Tim. “With additional works, both digital and physical, the foundation of our practice which originates in the physical world, is more comprehensible.” In its combination of the unexpected and twisted familiar, the exhibition aims to create an “experience of something ostensibly well-known, something one recognises from the real world that suddenly feels warped,” adds Anny. “Where a small detail makes you question what you are seeing and by extension, how you are perceiving the world.”

@wangsoderstrom

I Wish You Were Here - dir. by Vladimir Faraday

January 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Portfolios, 2018

A short movie directed by Vladimir Faraday is an attempt to look at familiar places in a new way. "How may The Red Square or Gorky Park look when nobody is around? When a motion of the city is stopped and everything seems so unreal and strange. Time is no longer measured in minutes. The stars are now visible even in daylight."

Vladimir Faraday (alias real name is Vladimir Petrushin) is Moscow based Director and Director of Photography. Highly creative and dedicated Cinematographer with an excellent record of film production service. Vladimir has extensive experience on TV. Since 14 he is working on TV as journalist, cameraman and editor. During this time he also made several successful doc movies as Director and DP. Currently he works as Director and DP.

Director, DP, Editor: Vladimir Faraday
Cast: Nikita Ryumshin, Anastasia Kochetkova
Music: Analog Heart - Heartbeats

vFx breakdown

@faraday13

Laura Zalenga Photography

January 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Germany, Photography, Portfolios, 2018

Laura is a 1990 born [self-] portrait-artist from Southern Germany. Besides photographing projects she teaches workshops, gives inspirational talks and travels to all over the world – always searching for magical places and special light. It’s her clear visual language, the power of telling stories and showing raw, honest emotions in her photographs that makes her work stand out. She is convinced that photography is a type of therapy that gives you the ability to heal yourself and others.

@laurazalenga

TheRadya on ELLO

January 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

It all began as a side project when artist Radik Sitdikov started drawing posters everyday. Following the vaporwave CGA-early-monitors aesthetics The Radya quickly becomes a merch store but still finding a time to do an experimental graphics you can follow on Ello and Instagram

@TheRadya

Neon Puddles by Thisset

January 11, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Photography, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

Russian digital artist and resident of our own London's Digital Decade collab, Slava Semeniuta best known as @Thisset shared his latest neon street findings

@thisset

Arthur Brouthers Art

January 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

Arthur Brouthers is well known in the world of social media as a pioneer of an abstract fluid painting technique that achieves cellular like separations, with the use of acrylic paints and other chemical agents. In his figurative works, these unconventional methods are used as bottom layers or the “skins” of his subjects. Arthur uses anywhere from 4 to 15 layers of clear resin between layers of acrylic paint, pigmented inks, and spray paint to show depth, giving a 3D effect.

@arthurbros

UPDATE by Antoni Tudisco

January 09, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Germany, Portfolios, 2018

Antoni Tudisco (the one of Digital Decade 5 artists) released a new pack of mind-blowing CGI art he created last year for commercial and personal projects

Full Set

@antonitudisco

Explore: A Visual Essay by Andres Rossi

January 08, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Portfolios, Spain, 2018

Exploration seems to be a human compulsion, so I wanted to tell a little story in the form of a visual essay, with a few images that can each convey an emotion related to Explore, showing a progression, going from Footsteps on a trail, climbing, looking at the skies, travellling through the void of space and in the end turning to meditation, completing a full circle.

Concept Design and animation: Andres Rossi
Music & SFX: Duomoro - duomoro.com

@andresrossistudio

Sculpture by Toru Kurokawa

January 05, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2018

Japanese artist Toru Kurokawa sculpts improbable liquid and biological shapes from a variety of ceramic materials. What begins life as a mere lump of clay, the artist molds and carves into artworks that appear like arrays of honeycomb, undulating coral, or dripping stalactites. Last year Kurokawa had a solo show with Sokyo Gallery titled The Savage Math, and you can see more of his work on Artsy

Lucy Hardcastle Reel

January 04, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2018

One of the Phygital Art pioneer Lucy Hardcastle (previously) released her show reel of selected works she did in 2017

@luhardcastle

Art of Light by Adela Andea

January 03, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

"Romanian-born artist Adela Andea creates futuristic light installations that range from wall-based works to immersive environments. The pieces appears as lit explosions, with LED lights, magnifying lenses, and flex neon springing outwards in a blend of chaos and control. Despite their composition of electrified material, each work is inspired by a natural phenomena. Andea looks to bioluminescent sea life, melting icebergs, and cosmological events to shape the composition and meaning of her large-scale installations." via Colossal

Andea is currently represented by Anya Tish Gallery in Houston and Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas. You can see more of her neon-based installations on her website

Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement

January 02, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Japan, Motioncollector, 2018

"For their latest dizzying interactive installation, Japanese collective teamLab (previously) brought the ocean indoors, creating a projected environment that reacts to the movements of visitors, all encased within the infinite space of a mirror room. Titled “Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement” the work is inspired in part by the life cycle of the ocean, particularly the movement of plankton as represented by the reactive particle effects that spin like whirlpools as you pass through the exhibition space. The speed and direction of people’s movements are all factored into the projections and in the absence of motion the room gradually reverts to darkness." via Colossal

The Vortices installation just opened at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia where it will remain on view through April 15, 2018

@teamlab_news

Xhxix Art

December 26, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2017

Xhxix is a Tokyo-based artist whose digital paintings depict mostly gaunt young men in surreal states of mental anguish or physical injury. His subjects are inspired by niche models, such as Jacob Morton, whose pictures he gathers off the internet.

@xhxixart

Kirsten Beets Art

December 25, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, South African Republic, Portfolios, 2017

Cape-Town-rooted artist Kirsten Beets works predominantly with oil paint on paper. Her main subject is the interaction between humans and nature.

"The artist infuses observations of people and places, fleeting moments, into physical objects. She lifts their significance to touchstones of remembrance. Beets’ artworks represent the fragmentary illustrations of a shifting memory. They oscillate between the feeling of dry, heat shimmering Cape Town, geometric-shaped swimming pools and the preserved green nature of the suburban and gardens. In her paintings the artist expresses the illusionary spaces that remind of nature but are in fact fully constructed by humans. This play with illusion is substantial for Beet’s works where she comments on the interaction between humans and their environment in a bigger picture. Beets has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Scuola Internationale di Grafi in Venice, Italy. She also took part in the Cape Town and the Johannesburg Art Fairs."

@kirst_b_kind

Gutless Wonder

December 25, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in 2017, Digital Art, Portfolios

"Gutless Wonder creates eye-popping CG illustrations and 3D sculptures. With intricate patterns and vivid colours, her work brings to mind psychedelia, religious iconography and tribal art." Read full interview on Creative Review

@gutlesswonder

Rubber People by Simon Christoph Krenn

December 21, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, 2017

"Simon Christoph Krenn’s 3D animation, Parasitic Endeavours, initially started out as the creative wanting to explore distorted perspectives on human evolution."

The result is a compilation of body parts, mainly heads and torsos, that wobble along a white backdrop and bump together like rubber mannequins. The hyperreal detail is unnerving and to see recognisable human parts being manipulated making the viewer feel both uncomfortable and mesmerised.

Words by Rebecca Fulleylove, It's Nice That

Memory Lapses by François Ollivier

December 19, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Canada, Portfolios, Photography, Art, 2017

Memory Lapses are temporary installations photographed by François Ollivier when he revisited places linked to strong memories, past or recent. By overexposing reflective material in the process, data becomes absent from the digital file, creating an empty zone in the image that alters reality and distorts our perception: like time and distance do.

@francoisollivier

Ceramic Donuts by Jae Yong Kim

December 13, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, South Korea, 2017

For his ongoing series of ceramic donuts, sculptor Jae Yong Kim chooses patterns and images that evoke a sense of pop culture both past and present

“Without my intention, references to Pop Art have been a consistent occurrence throughout the entirety of the donut artworks. Questioning myself regarding the donuts falling in line with a specific genre has brought questions and need for understanding. Each individual donut has invariably read to me as a small painting; color, pattern and physicality have been the ultimate procedure for my personal expression.”

— Jae Yong Kim

@jae_yong_kim_nyc

HALF&HALF Gzhel Plates

December 12, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, Portfolios, Russia, 2017

It began few years ago when Russian Design magazine AD asked 5 leading designers to come up with pilot projects to save significant local industries from dying out of ideas. We wrote about Yar Misonzhnikov reinventing Vologda lace traditions. But today we put on review the only one project went in production

That was a redesign of classic Gzhel Porcelain Ceramics by then a designer and now art-director of Strelka Institute - Anna Kulachek. In 2015 together with HALF&HALF production firm, Anna released a small bunch of desert plates HALF&KULACHEK - the modern designs that use classical Gzhel colour motifs and geometrical patterns.

This autumn, the company decided to produce a limited supply of table version plates (27.5 cm) in two colours. Next year, the brand owners intend to continue the series with the same print, as well as produce cups, sugar bowls and other objects.

halfand.co