FIRMAVERA

November 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in United Kingdom, Sculpture, Portfolios, 2018, Art

FIRMAVERA is the artistic practice of Natalia Romanova, based in London. Her product design ethos stems from her soviet childhood’s constructivist heritage and her experience as an industrial designer. She is influenced by an appreciative knowledge of engineering and industrial processes as well as the radical honesty of utilitarian and brutalism architecture.

The unpretentious beauty found in these disciplines informs her artistic practice which expands into experimentation through shape and perception. The frequent use of ceramics is a suitable canvas to convey a truthfulness to material while elevating the functional aesthetic into objects that are celebrations of that raw utopian vision.

Exposed overstructures, pattern repetitions and modularity hint at mass-production techniques and a brutalist rejection of ornaments. Ethical and functional intentions incidentally become malleable materials. The objects of FIRMAVERA are therefore playing with the notion of form and function, reconsidering their relationship in order to question the traditional norm of beauty.

firmavera.com

@firmavera

Mellow collection of accessories by Konstantin Kofta

November 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Photography, Portfolios, Ukraine, 2018

Fashion apparel designer Konstantin Kofta returns with a new collection of accessories inspired by nature. His “Mellow SS19” refers to surrealistic feeling of joy and abundance; appears bright but intriguing, tastes juicy but fibrous, sounds amusingly and inspiring at the same time

@konstantinkofta

FICK

November 08, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Motioncollector, Portfolios, Spain, 2018

FICK - BoneSystem is the first part of a double-video project made by Nacho Velasco during the last year. It talks about the birth of this sneakers, a full CGI video based on procedural techniques and particles effects inside a dark, techonologic and elegant ambience.

Direction: Nacho Velasco
3D Artists: Nacho Velasco, Ruye, Nachei, Mutoff
Music and sound design: Jan Raydan

Making of

Appreciate on Behance

Paper Paris by Camille Ortoli

October 24, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, France, Portfolios, 2018

“Haussmannien” is a personal project of paper artist Camille Ortoli where she painstakingly recreates famous building of Parisian boulevard Haussmann

@camilleortoli

History by Amit Shimoni

October 22, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Israel, Portfolios, Instagram, 2018

The artist’s “Hipstory Artist Series” is a continuation of Amit Shimoni original Hipstory project, which began with images of political figures. Amit has now expanded his portfolio to include new paintings of art stars, such as Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, and Andy Warhol.

@hipstory_shimoni

Georgian Motives

October 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

Saint-Petersburg based illustrator Rinat Khabirov recently went to a trip to trendy tourism destination - Georgia and brought back his visual diaries

@rinat_khabirov

Mark Lovejoy

October 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, Photography, 2018

“These are not photographs of paintings – no paintings exist. These images are of something as fleeting as any street scene or sunset – illuminated pigments, diluents, extenders, resins, oils, fillers, waxes, drying agents, etc. which, depending upon the mix, have varying miscibilities, viscosities, tacks, surface textures, reflectance, drying times etc., etc. All images are made using CMYK, white & in some cases silver & gold. Each original image has been reworked & reshot repeatedly – preserving any given iteration would be to doom all subsequent possibilities – the photographic record is all that remains . . .”

— Mark Lovejoy

marklovejoy.com

Ludwig Favre Photography

October 08, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in France, Photography, Portfolios, 2018

Ludwig Favre travels the world documenting its wonders in a way that elevates their look, creating an almost surreal, paint-like quality to the very landmarks we probably take for granted. From the front-facing wall of a building, to national parks, the designs of universities, pristine beaches and cityscapes around the world.

Below is his latest series “Oregon”

@Ludwigfavre

Bobby Rogers Photography

October 03, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Portfolios, Photography, 2018

Bobby Rogers is a photographer and visual artist working in Minneapolis and New York.

He began his career exploring work on mental illness and addiction. Then the DIY aesthetics of street culture and its influence on high fashion. Today, he’s investigating revolutionary ideologies reshaping Black culture.

Al Tawam for Citypages

@bobbyrogers_

The Scroll Sketches by T.S Abe

September 28, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2018, Art

London-based illustrator T.S Abe shares her latest pencil sketches that she animates smoothly by using no technologies only painstakingly drawing parts of each new frame

@ts_abe

Blake Kathryn

September 24, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, USA, 2018

LA based digital artist Blake Kathryn Thomas shares her latest artworks with us. Her work touches upon themes of nostalgia, states of consciousness and vices, iterated into dreamlike compositions.

@blakekathryn

Eugene Pylinksy

September 20, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Ukraine, Portfolios, Motioncollector, 2018

Talented Kyiv-based motion artist Eugene Pylinsky aka @pylik is definitely having a worth to see profile on Behance and Vimeo

@pylik

Pokras Lampas: The Life of an Artist

Moscow Manege

September 19, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Lettering, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

World leading artist Pokras Lampas (who is 27 today) taking his regal over the hype recently by delivering an Olympic amount of project one can handle with such a grace and inner manifesto.

His ongoing personal exhibition in Moscow Manege “The Life of an Artist” gathering a huge amount of millennials and those who understand that art is a “perpetuum mobile” neither a pillar of a history.

Pokras Lampas for Vogue Russia

Pokras Lampas for IKEA

Pokras Lampas for Tretyakov Gallery

Pokras Lampas for WYNWOOD Hotel

and this is only a half of project release by the artist this year!

@pokraslampas

Daily Digital Art by Beeple

September 18, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Netherlands, Instagram, Portfolios, 2018

Mike Winkelmann known as Beeple is doing a strong digital artwork a day. Literally every day for the last 11 years (sic!). We believe he has no time to collect them chronologically but sometimes it happens, like this time with November 2017 pack, available for appreciations on Behance. (We were happy to had Beeple involved in our Digital Decade exhibition last year where he recreated 3D worlds in VR Chat based on designs he selected from own competition ran with Kingdeluxe Label)

@beeple_crap

Digital Art of Mateusz Krol

September 14, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Poland, Portfolios, 2018

When imagination meets right tools a new design star is born, please welcome Mateusz Krol - very promising digital artist and designer from Warsaw. His profile can be found on Ello as well as on Behance

@krol.jpg

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NU:RO Minimalist Analog Watch

September 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, USA, Portfolios, 2018

Just in time when “Quantified Self” trend is trying to excuse the brutal data harvest from leading smart accessories - here come the solution to take an ease in sharing all of your personal details (including blood cells rate) to the unknown. Welcome award-winning minimalist analogue watches created by the fellows of our creative industry - Anton Repponen and his Brooklyn based studio ANTON&IRENE

After winning the Red Dot Award in 2010 for best concept, and many years of creating digital products for a variety of clients such as The Met, USAToday, Spotify, Balenciaga, Google and Netflix, Anton & Irene decided to make the leap into product design and produce the analog NU:RO watch themselves.

“We could have easily produced more watches, but we deliberately wanted to release a limited edition of 500 so that owning one would feel more special, almost like we’re all part of the same family”

— Anton & Irene

The watch has two dials, one with hours at the top and the other with minutes at the bottom. When they rotate the current time is shown inside the hourglass. The watch has been manufactured in a limited edition of 500, and can be purchased through the studio’s Kickstarter campaign until October 10th, after which, they will be gone forever.

The studio has also collaborated with the artist Shantell Martin for a limited edition release of 10 original hand drawn artworks.

“I always love working with Anton & Irene, and am proud to collaborate with them on this very special release of a project I know has been a passion of theirs for many years”

— Shantell Martin, Artist

Order on Kickstarter

Kim Leutwyler Art

September 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, Portfolios, 2018

Kim Leutwyler (@carlosbob) is a visual artist based in Sydney, Australia. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, print media and drawing. Kim’s current work takes its form in paintings dealing with images of beauty, gender and Queer-identity. She has come to focus on painting as a medium because of its primarily masculine history in the western art canon. By entering into the modernist painting field Kim hopes to destabilize gender borders just as LGBTQ artists have been doing since the 70’s and earlier. Her artwork has been exhibited in multiple galleries throughout the United States and Australia.

@carlosbob

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Marbles Revisited by Fabio Viale

September 11, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Italy, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2018

Talented marble artist Fabio Viale creates an upgrade versions of classic masterpieces aligning them to the modern society state of things (and its current meltdown with gangster culture). His tattooed marbles are the pieces to think about the contemporary life priorities and “what’s going to left after us”

@vialefabio

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Leni Dothan: Portland Stone Rehabilitation Centre

Verne High Angle Battery

September 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Israel, Sculpture, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2018

This innovative art project by Leni Dothan was prompted by the desire to raise a stronger awareness towards the invisible enemy that is air pollution. Together with the Chemistry department of UCL, Leni created these photographs on 200 Portland stones using London’s air pollution

Texts by Marine Tanguy MTArt Agency

This project is a perfect conceptual and chemical symbiosis between science and art, aiming for awareness and a response to air pollution through public art in between London and Portland Isle. During the b-side biennale, the artist will transform the Verne High Angle Battery into a rehab centre for air polluted sculptures made in London.

These sculptures will be the outcome of an ongoing research based collaboration with Dr. Raul Quesada-Cabrera, expert in photochemistry at UCL, prof. Andrea Sella and Sana Ali. Together, they developed a pollution-reactive material in UCL’s Chemistry lab.

Leni Dothan will bring these polluted sculptures to Portland for them to be cleaned while on display at the Verne High Angle Battery for nine days. The audience will witness the colour changes on the sculptures as the artworks react to a healthier context. The sculptures will become a powerful tool for public awareness towards the growing issue that is air pollution, especially in cities.

About Marine Tanguy MTArt Agency

Founded in 2015, MTArt is the first artist agency in the world for the world’s most exciting up and coming visual artists. While the art world concentrates on selling art on walls, the agency focuses on investing and supporting the artists. Every month, the agency reviews 200 portfolios of artists. Its selection committee select artists with innovative techniques, inspiring content and strong visions.

Marine Tanguy at Portland (UK) installation of Lent Dothan

For the artists who sign with the agency, MTArt covers their studio costs, sells their works, implement cultural & commercial partnerships and offers press exposure. This is how the agency accelerates their artistic reputation, visibility and success.

@mtartagency

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