Ruslan Onishchenko
Artist Ruslan Onishchenko works mainly with oil on wood decorating self-made “Victorian" furniture with an illusive world full of divine characters.
Pokras Lampas ╳ Comme des Garcons at Dover Street Market, London
Fashion label Comme des Garcons (@commedesgarcons) unveiled a colossal mural on the facade of Dover Street Market’s as a part of Dover Street Market’s 15th anniversary (@doverstreetmarketlondon). Designed by Rei Kawakubo and illustrated by Pokras Lampas, the monumental installation is the largest of a series of collaborations between Lampas and "Comme des Garçons" in Dover Street Market’s many international locations including Beijing, New York and Tokyo.
Destroying Rainbow Books by Ruslan Khasanov
The most titled graphic artist of Designcollector - Ruslan Khasanov is totally unstoppable when it comes to experiment with colour, forms and textures. “Destroying Rainbow Books” video is a continuation of Ruslan’s experiments with old-school Compact Disc - or simply Disctortion.
Viktor Miller-Gausa
Talented illustrator Viktor Miller Gausa is back with updated portfolio of portraits made in b/w and colourful digital techniques
Peter Bankov
Born in Belarus, raised in Moscow, rocketing Russian graphic design through the self-established then leading agency Design Depot and (kAk] Magazine, a decade ago Peter Bankov settled down in Prague to continue what he call a life-size career in poster design. To the date he has created over thousand of posters and gained international recognition in this field.
Marmalade Type by Ruslan Khasanov
“This is a bright and colourful typography captured with camera. These images are looks like computer graphics, some kind of experiment with gradients. But the whole point is that this is a photo, there is not a drop of any paint here only the phenomenon of interference. I formed letters with gel on the surface of the CD and illuminated it with a lamp.”
Half & Hohloma
Russian Half&Half returns with a new design collaboration after the successful project “Half&Gzhel” both aimed to restore the interest in Russian traditional decorative arts.
Art Director: Gina Onegina
Photographer: Dasha Kuznetsova
Style, set-design: Natasha Istomina
Makeup: Nadia Mastrukova
Hairstyles: Maxett
Assistant: Nastya Shengelia
Actors / models: Lesha Kochergin, Misha Guray, Dmitry Semenov, Kostya Stepanov
Designed by Anna Kulachek and manufactured at Khokhlomskaya Rospis factory, Half&Hohloma tells a different story of the most famous and oversaturated pattern-painting Khokhloma, traditionally made on a sound lacquered wooden objects using gold plating and other techniques.
HALF&Hohloma plates are made of pressed wood flakes - an eco-friendly and deformation resistant material. After polishing the plates are then primed with oil varnish, then coated with aluminium powder, making them silvery.
Then follows the painting process by the hands of experienced master craftsmen. After drying the plates are coated with a few layers of lacquer and this is how silver turns into khokhloma gold.
Emotionalia by Irina Kruglova
Russian artist Irina Kruglova spent her summer at Mas els Igols art residence training her abstract expressionism muscles with new series afterwards called "Emotionalia"
Disctortion by Ruslan Khassanov
“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.“
Berlin by Kamila Hanapova
Fashion, portrait, beauty and architecture photographer Kamila Hanapova shares her chromatic Berlin series taken on Hasselblad X1D
The Petersburger by Katie Gorbacheva
Being Petersburgers ourselves Katie’s illustration project “The Petersburger” made us jump in the air from excitement. Hope these covers (perfectly matching with a context) will find a real publisher to deliver a magazine for the “cultural capital” that constantly missing its cultural media.
Magic of Hong Kong by TimeLab
Timelab Pro team is back with a new epic drone short movie featuring the beauty of Hong Kong in a harsh times..
Original Music by Artem Zinovyev
Alexander Suvorov Art
Russian designer Alexander Suvorov trains his creative muscles by creating competitive hyper realistic art featuring gentlemen vehicles
Shadows by Anastasiya Kraynyuk
Trained as architect, self-taught digital artist Anastasia Kraynyuk shares her latest CG experiments with forms, colours, lights and shadows.
A Separate Reality by Alex Andreyev
Futurist artist you may know since ages if follow us properly:) Alex Andreyev does not need a special introduction as his works say everything. Follow his “Separate Reality” series to get the atmosphere of post internet utopia
Yevgeny Ivanov Photography
Starting as a street photographer and running the niche project “Catching the Corners” (@aerohockey) five years ago, helped Yevgeny quickly gain the attention among heavy media. Nowadays he works with major editorials but still challenges himself to push the boundaries of urban life documenting.
Budapest - The Taste of Europe
This new image-based video clip about Budapest is the result of an international collaboration between the Russian TimeLab video studio and the world-famous Hungarian musician, Havasi.
“In the video we see sleepy Budapest trams crossing the Széchenyi chain bridge.. dawn over the Danube River.. the majestic layout of the city from a bird's eye view... the glittering lights of Budapest by night... and the sunset over St Stephen's Basilica... and all this juxtaposed with the astounding music of Havasi.”
Duel by VOLNA
The gloom ripples while something whispers,
Silence has set and coils like a ring,
Someone’s pale face glimmers
From a mire of venomous color,
And the sun, black as the night,
Takes its leave, absorbing the light.M. Voloshin
The kinetic light installation "Duel" takes inspiration from the idea that conflict can act as a driving force. The concept of duality finds expression in the installation’s achromatic color scheme, as well as in its construction and form.
The installation’s main elements are 16 discs, all nearly flat and each with two opposite sides: one dark and one light. The opposites are in a constant state of “dueling” with each other, and all their attempts to reach one another instead result in continuous three-dimensional rotation. One recognizes in this movement the characteristic twists and turns of a coin that has been tossed into the air. The die has been cast, but the contest has not been decided yet. The discs’ movement through the air creates choreographed scenes with lights and shadows moving across space – the byproduct of a confrontation between two opposite and yet interconnected principles.
The installation was first presented on July 27-28, 2019 at the Present Perfect Festival in St. Petersburg in a separate space in the former factory. 16 motorized light elements were fixed to a 30-meter-long structure assembled in the form of a parabola and then driven in a smooth synchronous movement by custom created software.
Credits
Concept, production and video: VOLNA
Engineering: Alexey Belyakov
Mechanics: Viktor Smolensky
Camera/photo: Polina Korotaeva, VOLNA
Special thanks: William Cohen, Michael Gira, Igor Matveev, Alexander Nebozhin, Jason Strudler, Ivan Ustichenko, Artem Zotikov
Music: Swans – Lunacy
Project commissioned by Roots United for Present Perfect Festival 2019
© VOLNA (2019) © Swans ℗ 2012 Young God Records
Unity by Rus Khasanov
UNITY is a commercial project challenged by Ruslan Khasanov to create a merge of painted bubbles. After a painstaking process Ruslan managed to direct this mesmerising video piece worth to watch at least on 4K screens.
Computations - Art Film by Maxim Zhestkov
Computations is an experimental art film directed and designed by Maxim Zhestkov at Zhestkov Studio. It speculates a distant future when computation moves from the opaque ‘black boxes’ of our laptops and devices out into the world. He boldly envisions lush dynamic systems, which he compellingly describes as “floating networks of small transistors—some kind of strange computing organism.” Evoking both supercomputers and synaptic structures, the shapeshifting forms are serene and enigmatic.
The complex systems at the heart of Computations sway and undulate in perfect synchronization. Comprised of billions of particles, they are more than the sum of their parts—they are thinking machines that visualize, calculate, and communicate through coordinated movement and coloured illumination. Elements rise and fall, clusters lock into place, and there is an underlying sense of order governing the ornate spatial choreography. The forms are artfully embedded in architecture, perform in space, and demonstrate how each tiny element contributes to the construction of an elegant, emergent whole.nstag