Fashion silhouettes illustrated by Kristina An
Saint-Petersburg-based illustrator Kristina Antipova creates “cashmere”-like illustrations, visually tactile, soft and perfect for a walls on a terracotta tiles-laid terrace in a moody autumn day.
Modern Branding from Dima Shiryaev
St.Petersburg-based Helsinki-mastered graphic designer Dima Shiryaev is a living representation of a modern course in branding and graphic design of nowadays. Whether it is an identity for a music festival or local brand, it’s always about typography dynamics and fresh layouts
F*CK Art Beauty Project by Kamilla Hanapova
Russian fashion and beauty portrait photographer Kamilla Hanapova can be mean for a reason. Without any doubts the project is a self expression on the topic of censorship, toxic masculinity and opinionated society. The art of giving no F.
Studio Studies
ГЦСИ Санкт-Петербург
Studio Studies
Studio Studies is a series of video interviews with St. Petersburg artists and a logical continuation of the work with the artists' studios, which was launched as part of the 1st Curatorial Forum. Then, in the fall of 2019, the artists of St. Petersburg opened the doors of their studios to the public. The program called Open Studios raised important questions about the ethics of visiting and hospitality, the attitude of the artist and the public, and the very essence of these private spaces.
In 2020, we continued to work with the studios, now in an exploratory way, to clarify for ourselves, the audience, and the artists the designated "blind spots". We revised the format of open studios in favor of videos about the artist's life in the studio. This decision was also forced by the epidemiological situation, in which we think it is right to avoid mass visits to the studios.
Calling the series Studio Studies, we appeal to an already existing field of knowledge, relatively developed in European and American art criticism. Studio Studies is an area of knowledge that explores the artist's studio as an ecosystem of aesthetic and material production, and as a place that defines the entire future cultural process. We asked questions about the artist's daily life, looked at internal processes and relations with the outside world, i.e. we were engaged in topology and ethics of these special spaces.
Based on a research perspective, we invited artists representing different types of contemporary art: painters, graphic artists, sculptors, photographers, media artists, activists, etc. in order to see, perhaps, the specific routine of each direction.
Curator: Anna Zavediy
Russian release
Studio Studies
Государственный Центр Современного Искусства в Санкт-Петербурге (Северо-Западный филиал ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина) @ncca_northwest при поддержке «Фонда поддержки инноваций и молодежных инициатив» представляют первую часть спецпроекта Studio Studies – девять видео-интервью с петербургскими художниками в их мастерских.
Ася Маракулина в мастерской
Studio Studies – логическое продолжение работы с мастерскими художников, начатой осенью 2019 года. В рамках 1-го Кураторского форума была запущена программа Open Studios: во время Art Weekend художники Петербурга открыли двери своих мастерских для широкой аудитории. Программа, сфокусированная на этике посещения и гостеприимства, отношениях художника и публики, а также на самой сути этих приватных пространств, оказалась успешной.
В 2020 году работа с мастерскими продолжается, теперь уже в исследовательском ключе. Формат открытых мастерских был пересмотрен в пользу фильмов о жизни художника в мастерской (или о жизни мастерской).
Мастерская художника – это пространство со своей экосистемой, как правило закрытое для широкой публики. В серии видеоинтервью исследуется повседневная жизнь художника в мастерской и таким образом десакрализуется художественный труд.
Ильдар Якубов в своей мастерской
STUDIO STUDIES
Серия исследовательских видеоинтервью с петербургскими художниками.
http://curatorialforum.art/2020studiostudies
Куратор: Анна Заведий (@anna_zavediy)
Участники: Анна Андржиевская, Ася Маракулина, коммунальная галерея «Егорка», Анна Прилуцкая, Никита Селезнёв, студия перформативных искусств «СДВИГ», Илья Смирнов, Наталья Тихонова, Ильдар Якубов.
Avant-garde home technology
“LOEWE is well-known for its strive for perfection. The aspiration for the best possible visual and sound quality made the brand stand out. The combination of cutting edge technology and intelligent algorithms allow Loewe TV Models to impress a viewer not only with a beautiful picture but also with profound and elegant design concepts. PLAYD under direction of Paul Shtyler were thrilled by the opportunity to work on the latest collection by LOEWE. They joined forces with LOEWE creative team to produce a campaign devoted to the conscientious innovation and consistent care of clean materials – the key elements of responsible design. “
Digital portrait featuring Naomi Chin Wing in Erdem
Alena Voytenok Illustration
Alena Voytenok is Moscow-based talented fashion illustrator who recently get an acknowledge by Fashion Illustration Design Award (@fidaworldwide) for her enormous palette and beautiful style.
Btw it’s been 10 years since we released first ever (and still unique) Russian Illustration books featuring the most prominent talents from Russian-speaking community. Books are still available on this page (@illustrussia)
Viktoria Veisbrut
Talented young artist from Russia - Viktoria Veisbrut went full circle from tattoo art to canvas and further on the street walls. Her visual stories went beyond colourful murals, depicting informational overdose of our days and the needs to sedate ourselves on a daily visual diet
Porsche Sportscar Together Day identity by Roma Erohnovich
Russian team of designers lead by art director Roma Erohnovich shared their latest case - visual identity for Porsche Sportscar Together Day that happened in Moscow.
“Today, the very word "Porsche" is pretty much a synonym for motorsport. It is a special ideology and a distinctive unique approach to design. 70 years ago, Ferdinand Porsche, a designer himself, laid the foundation for the brand's DNA and expressed the brand's core values. On June 8, 1948, Porsche 356 "No. 1" Roadster kicked up the road dust for the first time.”
“Porsche Sportscar Together Day is an international festival and a tribute to a significant event — the launch date of the very first Porsche car. It was held in Russia in September 2019. At the Moscow Raceway, Porsche enthusiasts opened the racing season, witnessed the premiere of the new 911 and Cayenne Coupé, celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Porsche Experience Center, soaked up the sports atmosphere and spirit, and marked the road with their brake tracks.”
“The main challenge of this project was, first and foremost, to work on the brand’s field, combining different branches of visual communication of Cayenne Coupé, 911, Sportscar Together Day, and Porshe Motorsport. Using a minimal amount of graphic tools, we created the identity for the festival, POSM design, staff uniforms, interior and exterior design of the location, and cars.”
“As a starting point, we used the cult of sports aesthetics and notable design techniques that have already become somewhat of a fetish in the Motorsport fans world. We thought, what if we designed a badge, a track map, a garage box, and staff hoodies as if we were creating a sports car wrap? That is why all the materials have a single principle in their core. It is fully revealed in the key visual where the new Cayenne Coupé is wrapped in the signature graphics of a festival just like a race car would be.”
Credits:
Erohnovich Roma, art-direction, design
Paul Saksin, design
Ilya Klimov, 3d, motion graphics
Music: rovoq sound, Nikolay Zaslavsky & Sergey Egorov
Created in prostorcrew for Porsche by whomakesit.
Bite tongue, deep breaths
Glitch Art by Azamat Akhmadbaev
Azamat Akhmadbaev (b.1991) is a visual artist who lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works across many disciplines including painting, photography, video and digital art. His artworks operates in the gap between glitch art, abstraction, minimalism and graphic art. Also he is a founder/editor-in-chief of @dontpostme_magazine - a magazine about contemporary art. Private collections in Russia, Spain, the USA, the UK and Poland
We’ve approached Azamat this July to create an artwork for our Special Edition of @Digital.Decade reflecting on the current situation in the world. He came up with “Bite tongue, deep breaths” available for collecting on @seditionart for your digital home and mobile screens.
BITE TONGUE, DEEP BREATHS, 2020 is a part of an ongoing series of digital artworks by Azamat Akhmadbaev. This artwork continues to explore the limits of digital art world, and it was inspired by a song by Clams Casino & Imogen Heap ‘I’m God’.
Having taken the repeating words ‘bite tongue, deep breaths’ from the song, the artist has transformed a sampled song’s melody and text into the colorful artwork with infinite number of layers. Using glitched, vandalized images and texts (in a special, manually designed fonts) as brushes on a digital canvas, Akhmadbaev represents a dualism of the digital and the real, physical world. Technically, the artist checks out the ability of auto and manual software tools to create the image with glitched, lost, degraded effects. Conceptually, the artist launches the self-reflexive process with a manifestation of his attitude to the legacy of the post-war (abstract painting) and 90’s (usage of computer technologies in art) periods. And references to the popular song are the digitally manipulated links with culture and time in history discourse.
Polina Okean
Russian illustrator Polina Okean easily transforms her colourful works to murals and back to prints. Following a minimal visual approach creating quite self-esteemed and good looking characters
Digital Decade SE 2020
Special Edition of Digital Decade
Sedition + Designcollector
Digital Decade SE 2020 is the latest in the Digital Decade series of events by DesignCollector. Digital Decade is the brainchild of Designcollector founder Arseny Vesnin, who has curated and coordinated public phygital art events in London, St Petersburg and Barcelona since 2013. Since then Designcollector have presented the work of more than 150 pioneering, exploratory and celebrated artists working between the physical and the digital, as well as partnering with organisations including OFFF, Ello, Depositphotos and FutureFest.
On 8 July a new collection of digital editions curated by Designcollector Creative Network launches on Sedition. The exhibition features works by Krista Kim, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Eliška Sky, Azamat Akhmadbaev, Joëlle Snaith, Dimitri Daniloff and Grégoire A. Meyer.
Virtual Exhibition available by the link below
Digital Decade events are live artistic responses to current changes (geopolitical, environmental, social) influencing life in the digital age. For the latest iteration, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, artists have creative speculative and critical comments on how phygital life may change post-pandemic. The artists participating present works in a range of media including photography, audiovisual collaborations, 3D digital sculptures and animation
On 8 July Designcollector release Digital Decade SE 2020, featuring seven digital limited edition artworks, available to collect on Sedition as a full set or individually. The works can also be experienced in a VR exhibition which features a mixtape by Ben Paul
Figurative Murals by Nadya O
Russian female urban artist Nadya O, easily creates large murals despite the established opinion of her male counterparts that there are a not that much women artists around. She brings a new figurative meaning to the old walls distastefully tagged before.
Baroque Punk by Asya Kozina
Paper craft artists Asya Kozina & Dmitry Kozin were commissioned to create this masterpiece for ICART.
“Specially commissioned by our friends ICART, we created a modern portrait of a rebel businessman in the image of a punk. We believe that punk culture is in tune with modern business, which also constantly questions authorities, protests against obsolete rules, breaks down stereotypes and seeks its own way. In the Iroquois in the Baroque style, we have woven the symbolism of money, placing our hero in a powerful and provocative context.”
Researcher: Prologue / Sci-Fi Short Film by Vladislav Solovjov
Russian motion CG artist Vladislav Solovjov (CG Generalist at Ruroc Ltd) shares his long-waited project “Researcher: Prologue”, here is what he says about the film:
“It's the first part of my sci-fi short film I've been working on since 2015. For more than 4 years I created different ideas and concepts until I found the best technical way to bring my story to life. The most difficult part of this project was the animation. It's the first time ever when I was animating a character. I'm glad I had this amazing experience. And I'll try to improve what I've done in the next part of this short film. This full CG project is split into three logical parts and I will be releasing each of them separately.”
Direction, Design, CGI, Sound Editing: Vladislav Solovjov
Modelling: Evgeny Park (Klickstop), Vladislav Solovjov
Contemplate by Slava Thisset
Slava Semenuta known as Thisset shares his latest work Contemplate and the words about it:
“This video tells a simple story of any thinking person who is looking for meaning of existence.
A person who is both suffering and enjoying life.
I showed this story in a peculiar way and with my own vision of the world.
In this short music film, there is a share of madness and surrealism.
I wrote an abstract script and was the director of this video and I also drew fonts to decorate the video.
The font is designed in a style that imitates plants and smoke to enhance the surrealistic atmosphere.”
Chronos by Anastasiia Aleksandrenko
Anastasiia is a young and perspective artist with a strong vision and multi-tools approach. She started her career in 2018, exploring more and more new methods to talk with the people through her art.
Anastasiia started this project during well-known events that had taken place when the whole world stopped. Four-pieces project shows to us the author’s reflection on time. She used colours to show the highest impact of the past and the future. Colours and different techniques are one of the most used tools by the author. When you start from light and soft memories, you jump very fast to reflections about what the future has prepared for you. Days when no one knows what will take the place.
TEREM
LOOP . postproduction company shares their latest motion design piece made for TV commercial spots of the largest private house manufacturers in Russia.
Client: Terem
Production Co: Perspective Pro
Executive Producer: Nikolay Novikov
Producers: Elena Borisova, Anastasia Egorova
Direction / Postproduction: Loop
Creative Directors: Alex MIkhaylov, Max Chelyadnikov
Art Director: Alex MIkhaylov
CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov
Artists: Dmitriy Paukov, Filipp Gorbachev, Max Chelyadnikov, Ilya Azhdarov,
E.D.Satan, Roman Senko, Artemiy Perevertin, Daniel Rybkin, Nikolay Sosna,
Alex Dokuchaev, Mikhail Ivanov, Pyotr Piatak
Sound: Monoleak
Street Art by Sergey Akramov
Mural and urban artist from Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sergey Akramov brings life into the post-soviet commuter suburbs of the capital of the Urals.
Digital Art of Elena Romenkova
Ultra talented digital artist Elena Romenkova shares a glimpse of the near future through her creations
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