3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Jiaqi (Jackie) Wang is an illustrator and animator originally from China, currently based in Los Angeles. She specialises in 2D moving images and motion graphics. Her work revolves imagination about daily life, full of colours, visual design, and character design.
Gianmaria Schonlieb is a multidisciplinary Creative Director with extensive experience in advertising and art direction.
“I like to focus on simple moments. Advertising is something that we don’t really need in life, so I have always loved to focus on small moments, objects, and little things that are often overlooked but that can make you crack a smile.”
Sculptor Nazar Bilyk creates negative-space artworks leaving the viewer recreate the original shape while viewing it
Illustration of Gianmarco Magnani follows the style of original Swiss movie posters - eye-catching attention to details and sleek graphics
Russian artist Irina Kruglova spent her summer at Mas els Igols art residence training her abstract expressionism muscles with new series afterwards called "Emotionalia"
Digital artist from Bulgaria, George Stoyanov has recently introduced us his latest 3D illustrations series of random stacked objects & forms.
His work is focused on CGI, 3D illustration and design. He’s using various colors, forms and conceptions to achieve more intensive emotions, closeness and sense of detail. Constantly aiming at improving his skills and developing a style of his own.
“Colombian artist Otoniel Borda Garzon manipulates outdated volumes of maps, reference texts, and newspapers to form abstract sculptures. The multi-part artworks juxtapose the paper pages, carved into topographical shapes that allude to cliffs and mountains, with geometric wooden trusses and smooth, water-like glass channels.“ via @colossal
“My work has always been a time machine looking backwards across decades and centuries to arrive at some understanding of my “place” in the contemporary moment.”
Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Created by artist Kara Walker for the 2019 Hyundai Commission, it is one of the most ambitious installations in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall to date.
Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Walker’s fountain explores the interconnected histories of Africa, America and Europe. She uses water as a key theme, referring to the transatlantic slave trade and the ambitions, fates and tragedies of people from these three continents. Fantasy, fact and fiction meet at an epic scale.
Based in New York, Kara Walker is acclaimed for her candid explorations of race, sexuality and violence. She is best known for her use of black cut-paper silhouetted figures, referencing the history of slavery and the antebellum South in the US through provocative and elaborate installations.
Fons Americanus is on display at Tate Modern until 5 April 2020. You can explore the artwork in more detail on @tate
Chinese digital artist UV-Zhu shares his 3D anthropomorphism skills
Light artist and photographer Reuben Wu spent time with a purpose during his trip through Bolivia to create new jaw-dropping photographs. Equipped by Phase Photo XT Camera System and a lucky season at unique salt space of Salar de Uyuni, he worked against the clock with a team to create an outstanding project Read more on https://seek.phaseone.com/en/reuben-wu
Rodrigo Chapa is a Mexican artist who has been working with photography for the past decade. “In his series “Ausentes” (Absents), he makes reference to abstract expressionism by composing images with color field backgrounds and a dancer as the subject. He captures the movement and improvisation of the dancers, in which the record of the physical manifestation of the subject becomes the work of art.” via @trendland
“I was inspired to create this project by an old, scratched CD with 90s music, which just lay on the street and shimmered with all the colors of the rainbow under the sun. On a deformed surface, textures formed that bizarrely changed colors.
“For this project I took various types of CD and DVD disks and destroyed them: I burned disks, froze, tore up, dipped into various chemicals, bent them. It was amazing to see how all disks react differently to the same actions and form different textures.“
Italian artist Nima Tayebia creates dystopian portraits of someone who has lost a memory or was vanished from a timeline. Using chiaroscuro techniques inspired by Black Period of Goya and mixed with later El Greco these artworks won’t leave you for free. Scary but intriguing …
Bulgarian fashion editor and lifestyle photographer Antoniya Yordanova
Canadian artist David Umemoto creates Escher-esque concrete miniature pieces that evoke temporary buildings or monuments standing on far-away lands.
“The images conveyed in the mind by these works are numerous. They refer to the archaic and the ephemeral, despite the solidity and the modernity of the medium. Appearing before our eyes are pre-Columbian rock dwellings, god statues from the Andes or Easter Island, steles deteriorated by rain, remnants of modern cities having survived a cataclysm, fragments of Babylonian cities, colonial settlements brought down to their foundations, cenotaphs abandoned in the jungle…”
Fashion, portrait, beauty and architecture photographer Kamila Hanapova shares her chromatic Berlin series taken on Hasselblad X1D
Spanish artist David Moreno “draws” sculpture using steel rods creating "digital slit-scan” effect for his wall mounted “Floating Favelas” series
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Montreal based photographer Gabriele Sykes creates visually approaching campaigns as for example for jewellery brand we selected for you
Since 1995, Lars-Erik Fisk has reimagined familiar and common-place objects into spheres, which he considers a "basic form… that we can all understand, but is at the same time the least likely form for these subjects to assume.”
Transforming objects in this way engenders a fascination with the mundane and elevates otherwise unnoticed details of one’s everyday surroundings to works of art that demand attention.
Made primarily by hand in the artist’s Brooklyn studio, each circle is designed to engage ordinary elements from parking lots, subway tiles, car parts and pencil stubs. The eclectic material palette uses the components of these architectural and urban facets – namely steel, glass and asphalt – and turn them into perfect spheres; transforming the simple theory into a potent array of sculptures.
