Art of Leonard Combier
A work by French artist Leonard Combier is like a riddle that can never quite be solved. Something always slips your notice or escapes your eye, resisting your attempt to unravel every clue. What attracted us to his work is an ongoing project featuring “tattooed” passports of travellers that Leonard has been doing for the last five years. Now he wants to bring an attention for this cause in terms of global situation
“Léonard Combier’s work deals with causality and liberty. In a world where everything interrelates and can only be understood as a vast chain reaction, how is freedom conceivable? This applies as much to the artist who is caught in a system of his own creation, as to the viewer whose gaze finds no exit. The answer, I believe, lies in the Combier’s sense of humour. Humour provides the only solution, a multi-directional vector leading to different levels of interpretation, the choice of which is left up to the viewer. It pervades Combier’s entire work, from the bizarre figures to the comical texts, as the artist’s mischievous playfulness sets the scenes of his different worlds like those in a vaudeville play – save the final twist in the plot, which is never revealed. Yet there is always the mystery contact, whose phone number is etched into each work.”
Portraits by Ece Endez
Digital artist Ece Endez shares their electrifying portraits mixing digitalism with a bit of Marvel’s super realism
Dream Spaces by Juliette Wanty
Auckland-based art director and multidisciplinary designer Juliette Wanty creates imaginary spaces with a clear sense of modernism twisted with a movie scene from any of Wes Anderson’s. “Featuring scale cardboard models and continuously repainted wooden boards, Wanty’s spaces are realistic reinterpretations of interiors we’d probably inhabit in our dreams.” via @trendland
Martine Johanna
Martine Johanna’s practice revolves around the activity of painting, drawing and writing. She was born and raised in Gelderland, Netherlands and has studied at the Academy of fine Arts in Arnhem, obtaining a bachelors degree and a Masters degree. She has exhibited in multiple Solo shows in the Netherlands, Europe and the United States. Her work is part of several private collections and has been published in diverse books and magazines. Her paintings were also featured in two episodes of the HBO hit series True Detective.
Studio Size
Small studio from Zagreb, Croatia does big things for clients by developing graphic design systems and identities
Abstract Paintings by Alex Kuznetsov
Alex Kuznetsov’s painting practice is concerned with states of flux and impermanence, furthered by research into spatial and temporal concerns in a comparison of social and urban timeframes. His process-led, abstract painting practice employs a tempered gestural language where fluidity is a defining material concern and the process of erasure has equal importance to the intuitive application of paint. This examines states of presence and remembrance by exploring a tension between control and chance.
Sasha Katz for Burberry
Digital artist Sasha Katz (known to you by our exhibition @digital.decade Cyberia 2017) had a quick call from Opera Illustration to create few works for @Burberry in a topic of “Togetherness”. The results went beyond reality
Billelis Memento Mori
Prominent CG artist specialising in dark visuals and decorative art and fighting saint trolls online, Billelis just ran his first open competition where he invited artists and followers to complete one of his famous skull.
The winners
The Runner Ups
Digital Abstractions by Giga Kobidze
Graphic artist Giga Kobidze, that you may know by our @Digital.decade collaborations, shares his intriguing abstract works he created during last few years
Inner State by Maria Mavropoulou
“Inner State” is a series of photography Maria shot during Greek stagnation 2014 - 2016, and as she says “Revisiting these photographs nowadays, during the Covid-19 health crisis, I sense those same feelings of uncertainty and unpredictable change of fundamental aspects of everyday life as we used to know it. This current global situation may be an important moment to realize that no matter what causes a crisis, or where it takes place, solidarity, collaboration and compassion is our only way out. “
House in Pyrgos, Santorini, Greece
Kapsimalis Architects designed a picturesque minimalistic house in Pyrgos, Santorini with views towards the Mediterranean Sea. It offers breathtaking views towards vineyards and the Mediterranean Sea. The property can be divided into three separate dwellings with individual outdoor spaces.
Photography by Giorgos Sfakianakis
Renaud Futterer Showcase
Talented French graphic designer Renaud Futterer who moved from London to NYC for delivering high class typography, motions, and layouts for @buck_design has shared the latest works with us
CODA - Geometric Furniture Installation
“CODA installation” was a photoshoot created by photographer Kamilla Hanapova for industrial and interior designer Daria Zinovatnaya in support of her unique cupboard release as well as other objects. The goal of an installation was to show bright pieces of geometry furniture, merging their forms in order to show the character and peculiarity of each item.
The Stories
Following the words of director Mikhail Konoplev - “The goal was to develop main titles for a film, based on a general concept and drama. “The Stories” film is based on the confrontation of a man and a woman. At the end of each story, the woman won, and the man suffered or even died. And in one story, a man still prevailed. I wanted to draw a metaphorical analogy between our story and the myth of the jellyfish Gorgon and Perseus. As well as the main objects that affect what is happening.”
Belden Carlson Self-Portraits
“Staging herself in the middle of nature and atypic location from around the world, Brooklyn-based photographer and multi-media artist Belden Carlson interacts with her environment and then adds another touch with mixed-media collages for her final compositions..” via @trendland
In her ‘Self-Portraiture’ series, she’s an integral part of the landscapes, adopting unusual postures and embracing the surrounding around her. She immortalizes her own identity to stand for present by literally becoming one with each scenes.
KIRO ╳ Zhostovo
Ongoing collaboration “KIRO ╳ Zhostovo” is a clear example of how traditional folk art integrates with contemporary art. Abstract artworks of Irina Kiro (from her series “Emotionalia” she created during art residency at Mas els Igols, Spain) found new meanings as they transformed as an artistic reflection of traditional Zhosotovo painting on metal trays. The new visual meaning is painstakingly reproduced by masters from Zhosotovo factory strictly following classic cannons of 19 century.
Emotionalia, Irina Kiro
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Elise Unreal Sculpture
“Elise is an anonymous London-based artist creating delirious sculptures. Experimenting with mass and volume, the shapes appear solid yet intangible, somewhere on the edge between realism and an evanescent dream. Painted in pastels, cracked and imperfect, the artworks reflect on the subjectivity of aesthetics as small details and elements can influence our perception of what is harmonious and beautiful or unsettling.” via @trendland
“Angle, curve, surface and dimensionality merge to form an unlikely symmetry that conjoins or dissipates as the gaze spans her compositions. She draws the viewer into a deliriously disorientating world, where intriguing sculptural shapes connect and collide”
Letter, Lotus and Legend
The Moscow-based creative design studio Superdesigners just released their latest passion project “Letter, Lotus and Legend”, a four-month odyssey into the creative process that weaves “the martial grace of the samurai with the textures and fabrics of a hi-tech clothing brand.” The result is a stunning 3D video of what could be the textures & fabrics trend directions for a hi-tech clothing company.
“Martial arts have always been a breath of fresh air for western culture. Starting with the first American film adaptations about the samurai, a unified philosophy of perfecting one’s mind and spirit has been accreting additional cultural layers without losing its distinct archaic character.
We decided to distill this cluster of meaning into striking choreography familiar from films, enrobing it in eclectic technological shapes.
This piece is about how incessant contradiction and conflict within our psyche lead to feelings of dismay; these feelings are then inevitably expressed through violence and struggle, so that a fragile balance may once again be restored.”
Valeriya Tsimbalenko illustrations
Siberian illustrator Valeriya Tsimbalenko shares her latest works on Behance where we adore most her “36 Days of Type”