Celine Chouvenc paper art
Celine Chouvenc is a French contemporary artists working in papier-mâché techniques. She is focusing on sculpting enigmatic portraits of woman and revealing a supernatural power in each of them.
Glass Screen as Metaphor by Tilman Hornig
Started in 2013 the ongoing research on glass screen as metaphor of a digital being is a central focus in Tilman Hornig career as an artist.
From an ontological point of view, computers – similar to Heidegger’s notion on Being – “are” not at all. Today, they are required to deter- mine any kind of being. They, therefore, precede any kind of being. Computers “are” not, they exist as an invisible given, which penetrates everything. Foremost, computers are nothing specific. As a universal medium, they are similar to that which Aristotle called the diaphanes, the “transparent” – an undetermined “in-between,” metaxu, which has to be formless in exactitude to take on any form and to transport all possible impressions. The significance of the computer also correlates to an image of the Stoics, the apeiron, ”the in-finite,” which, being primal matter par excellence, includes the possibility of any other matter, and which, exactly because of that, has no proper qualities itself. It is therefore no accident that transparency is the ethos of our time.
Glass Phone, 2014 ongoing
The phenomenon of virtual illusion denies reality by depicting it. The transparency is an exaggeration of emptiness and abundance of information and content at the same time. It creates infinite possibilities and makes the world a backdrop.
GlassPhone - Stille Nacht
Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, 2020
By throwing back the symbol of digital space, limitless communication, infinite information to its purely material form, Hornig makes the paradoxical cultural elevation visible. For the device as such is free of any content, it is a neutral surface and at no time permanent. Only at the moment of use does it transfer the surrounding reality into a virtual illusion of the same, thus becoming a mirror of countless, varying realities. The transparency of the "GlassPhone" refers to the actual function of the smartphone as a transmitter of information and translator between the worlds.
The complex and ever-increasing overlap of analog and digital realities is touched in the current exhibition "Silent Night" on a formal as well as on a content-related level. It shows 24 variations of a motif from the "GlassPhone" series. In the darkness of an airplane cabin - as the characteristic oval window hatch in the center lets us know - the human body disappears almost completely. Only the hand holding the sculpture is illuminated by the mystical light in the center of the picture, while the "GlassPhone" itself crosses the additional picture surface enclosed by the window frame in an almost perfect diagonal.The precise, harmonious composition differs in its execution only in this second picture surface, the landscape to be imagined and especially the atmosphere of light that radiates inwards and frames the sculpture like an aureole. Golden sunrises or sunsets, rosy pastel evening moods, deep blue night skies or greenish shimmering auroras create stylized hyper-realities. They reveal that this motif was digitally mounted.
Ant Hamlyn Art
Hamlyn's work delves into our relationship with modern technology to explore our shifting enthusiasms towards contemporary life. Working with a considered merging of carpentry, metalworking, digital design manufacture, electronics and coding. Hamlyn produce's sculpture, installations, paintings and performing spaces.
JAGO Sculptures
Young figurative artist from Italy Jago Jacopo Cardillo continuing to follow the canons of the classic sculpting school of Renaissance by creating masterpieces of marble that looks alive
Levitating 3D printed sculpture “Panopticon”
Vladislav Mukhanov
Saint-Petersburg raised and based sculptor Vladislav Mukhanov experiments with forms and materials by creating thoughtful pieces and indoor installations
Wax Monks at Russian-Japan joint exhibition of Young Talents, Manege, St.Petersburg, 2018
Endless by Juliette Clovis
French artist Juliette Clovis (@julietteclovis) released a new series of ceramic sculptures called "Endless", with "Samsara", "Black Knot" accompanied by "Manis Tetradactyla" on the view at Gent Design Museum in Belgium among their curated exhibition Kleureyck: Van Eyck’s Colours in Design, curated by Sigrid Demyttenaere (@designmuseumgent). Another work "Ananta" - is currently exhibited in Four des Casseaux Museum Limoges in France among their curated exhibition Magie Noire (@fourdescasseaux)
Jeff Balloonski by Sebastian Burdon
Artist Sebastian Burdon aka Whatshisname is a London-based sculptor mostly known for his “balloon”-like dogs he started doing few years ago as a fun, being fed up with one famous guy. After he was accepted as a raising star he changed the game and started running a series of limited editions for his “POPek” and “PEEPek” “balloon-dogs” and recently released an anthropomorphic version called Jeff Balloonski.
Szilard Gaspar
Artist Szilard Gaspar practicing professional boxing as well as arts, sculpture and performance
“On a both practical and conceptual level, in my artworks, I always try to express and give artistically shape to the energies that I experience in my life as a sportsman. The artistic result in my artworks comes from accumulated personal experiences and many years of experiments with different art materials, with my body and my mind. Combining art with sport and the specific elements of these two different life styles, shaped my passion for art, which is the most distinct and strong part of my personality. Now, I can express myself more freely since I found my original way of making artworks and performing.”
David Åberg
David Åberg is a digital sculptor and 3D animator. His pieces are created virtually and without limitations of gravity and materiality. From the imagination and the limitless starting point, his artistic handicraft is filtered through a digital pen and touch-sensitive drawing screens.
Åberg’s tactile process is in this way transferred into algorithms, in the dialogue between individual creativity and descriptive mathematics, that formulates into digital spatiality and sculpture.
“There is something exciting in this technology and its relation to drawing. By drawing on the screen’s two-dimensional surface I manipulate the geometry, which presents itself as three-dimensional objects. Furthermore, I see the media as a metaphor for the constructed, virtual, and intangible, and as raising questions about multidimensional realities and glitches in our communication.”
David Åberg is inspired by imaginary and esoteric art as well as sci-fi pop culture aesthetics and mythologies. With roots in art history, one might trace a clear relationship to natural forms in his practice, where the more strict language of technology is present. David Åberg's sculptures become detailed and hyper-realistic and simultaneously cause a transformation that turns away from our physical reality. In his universe - in the electronic, non-tactile version of reality - he builds up a fictitious gallery of personalities.and examines issues relating to fantasy identities and transhumanism.
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.”
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”
Labyrinth by Gijs van Vaerenbergh
“In the industrial city of Genk in Belgium, a kilometer of steel corridors was constructed to form a mechanical-look maze at a former coal mine. The installation titled Labyrinth is created as a spiral experience by Gijs van Vaerenbergh in collaboration with the Belgium architect Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh.
The labyrinth contains various openings and perspectives throughout the maze and makes the viewer experience an ever-changing relationship with the surrounding urban environment.” via @trendland
Shuster+Moseley and Lauren Baker at AZIMUTH
Last weekend MTArt Agency launched public art at AZIMUTH music festival, that took place in the very special historical site of Al Ula.
For this special occasion, exclusive sculptures were commissioned by Shuster+Moseley and Lauren Baker on the themes the Sun, mix of cultures and discovery.
Shuster + Moseley is a conceptual art studio led by Claudia Moseley (b. 1984) and Edward Shuster (b. 1986). The studio creates light-mobiles, sculptural installation and immersive, meditative environments reflecting on the nature of consciousness and technology.
Lauren Baker, born 1982, from Middlesbrough, UK. Currently lives and works in London. Lauren Baker is a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist who exhibits internationally. Her work explores the fragility of life, energy-fields, the after-life and other dimensions. Using neon light to express universal energies and life mantras, she aims to raise the vibration of love and connection within the world.
Photography by Roman Scott @romanscott
Emograms by kissmiklos .
Budapest-based artist and designer Miklós Kiss aka @kissmiklos shares his latest public art affair “emograms” he presented as a part of solo exhibition at Lotte Gallery, Incheon, South Korea, 2020
The exhibition consists of two parts. The first space is built around emograms and the installation Ball.Room. The second displays a new installation called, LOVE field, and a typography-based sculpture.
Miklós Kiss’s works incorporate various facets of architecture, fine art, design, and graphic design. A strong artistic approach and outstanding aesthetic quality characterise his art. His fine art pieces are just as significant as his distinctive style in corporate identity and graphic designs.
These giant badges are based on the first Smiley, which was originally a badge itself. The „smiley“ was born in 1963 when Harvey R. Ball, owner of an advertising agency in the USA, came up with the idea to use it to lift the mood of the workers of a recently merged insurance company.
Check his 2nd part of exhibition called “LOVE” on Behance
Elisa Insua
Born and raised as artist in Buenos Aires, Elisa Insua continues her upcycle practice after moving to Madrid
“Economic studies are based on a series of basic principles: one of them states that, for any given individual, “the more, the better”. My work tries to push this axiom to the limit of excess and abundance, in order to tense it, question it or even defy it.”
“My pieces are about desire, opulence, ostentation and luxury. I apply the concept of the “hedonic treadmill” (the tendency of humans to return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite increases in wealth or the achievement of major goals) and the straight-forward myth of King Midas and his Golden Touch. Social ascent, the “American Dream”, economic inequality, endless irresponsible consumption and the effects of capitalism are also recurring themes.” text from MTArt Agency
Represented by Marine Tanguy Art Agency @MTArtagency
Dorothée Loriquet Sculpture
Mind-bending abstract ceramic sculpture comes out from the hands of artist Dorothée Loriquet based near Paris and represented by Modern Shapes Gallery (@modernshapes)
Luiz Philippe Art of Stone
Brazilian artist Luiz Philippe uses stone, tiles and mosaics to create his suitcase sculptures you will never get a chance to sneak on any border
Claudia Fontes ceramics "Fungus" sculptures
Claudia Fontes is an Argentinean visual artist based in England who explores through her actions, objects and research the poetic space and alternative modes of perception of culture, nature, history and society that emerge from processes of decolonization, be they personal, interpersonal, or social. She is well-known for her work “The Horse Problem” - top art installation at Venice Biennial in 2017. Her recent ceramic sculptures are gripping each other tight as they are transformed into fungus like growths and spores in an eerie but romantic series.
Kate MccGwire
Kate MccGwire is an internationally renowned British sculptor whose practice probes the beauty inherent in duality, employing natural materials to explore the play of opposites at an aesthetic, intellectual and visceral level. Growing up on the Norfolk Broads her connection with nature and fascination with birds was nurtured from an early age, with avian subjects and materials a recurring theme in her artwork
Guda Koster
Guda Koster is a Dutch artist who creates living sculptures and performances, which the photographs are the results of. Koster’s works are created in parallels of time, space and textile. In her works Koster uses fabrics, colours and patterns that underline the codes and meanings our clothing conveys
