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Ventricle is a two-part installation created by SOFTlab that was commissioned by the Southbank Centre in London for the Festival of Love. The installations recall the heart, a symbol that has been used for many centuries and in many cultures to represent love. Along with the chambers of the heart, the installations are a modern interpretation of the hanging gardens of Babylon, a place of many cultures and languages, and also of Eden, a place of free knowledge and expression.
Based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
'To fall, patiently to trust our heaviness'
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem ‘Gravity’s Law’, McDermott taps into themes of meditation and nature in a deliberate response to the overload of information in modern society.
He was drawn to The Barbican Centre and estate because of its otherworldly quality and achieves a sense of calm with his long free-falling shots against the brutalist architecture.
Jenue is a Spanish Artist and Art director, who divides his time between Madrid and London. He makes playful images for editorials, music, and advertisements with his own colourful view and style. Check his latest project made of famous designer's quotes commissioned by AIGA
As there is literally no Planet B we must think not only about our relationship with environment but with the people around us, especially the ones in need. It is still unclear how we can raise millions in kickstarter for another gadget and avoid helping a bunch (in terms of percentage) of homeless people. British sculptor Maxwell Rushton approached by similar thoughts has created a "Left Out" piece on streets of London where nearly 7000 slept rough on streets during last year.
Filmed by Liam Thomson
London photographer specialising in urban photography, street photography Nicholas Goodden has a lot of project to show on personal website but we selected the striking one featuring minimal urban shots.
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Design studio OK-RM has devised a striking graphic identity for Under the Same Sun, an exhibition of contemporary art from Latin America at the South London Gallery.
OK-RM created a new identity for the exhibition to coincide with its move to London. The design combines eye-popping brights with playful type and bold graphic shapes: OK-RM says it represents “an embedded energy in Latin American art and culture” and “a unique relationship with the Modernist canon.”
For the past 20 years, Kapoor has been creating enormous sculptures from his studio in a converted dairy factory in south London
Five years ago, Kapoor approached Michael Casey of London-based Caseyfierro about renovating his studio and the buildings he had purchased next door, which altogether take up an entire city block. Caseyfierro went about turning the 3,100 square metres of space into a series of six studios that vary dramatically in scale and function. Each space is designed around a specific act – forming, finishing, testing, painting, drawing, documenting & archiving – with each carrying a distinct atmosphere responding to a material or process. As one would expect, each studio space is designed to be highly flexible, having the ability to morph with Kapoor’s practice.
London based graphic designer Polina Hohonova was recently awarded by D&AD Yellow Pencil (Gold) for her graduation project at Chelsea College of Arts (Tutor: David Barnett)
Retro Serif is a project about the revival of glyphs in the Russian alphabet that had been omitted after the revolution. When the Bolsheviks came to power, says student Polina Hohonova, the letters I, Ѳ, Ѣ were omitted from the ‘new’ Russian alphabet as they were regarded as symbols of the aristocratic ‘High Russian’ and therefore representative of the defunct Tsarist Russia. Those symbols were part of the language of Pushkin and Tolstoy. “Reviving these characters is a protest against the prescribed dictatorship of the language,” she says.
Chris Guest’s work focuses mainly on painting heavily tattooed people, with a ‘Pin-Up’ feel. Utilizing classical oil painting techniques, learnt at London Fine Arts in Battersea, Chris creates paintings in a classic figurative tradition, coupled with a contemporary twist
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On July 4th, Digital Decade’s annual art collaboration kicks off at the Underdog Gallery in London. This year’s exhibit, “There is No Planet B”, features the work of international digital artists who address the economic, social, political, and environmental problems we face by imagining a world without them.
Using their talent for photo manipulation and glitch art - the purposeful corruption of data within a digital file to create distorted yet aesthetic effects - 25 invited artists and 2 winners of The Open Call contest come together to “Imagine there’s no… climate change, human aggression, war”, and more.
Curated by Arseny Vesnin from Designcollector Network, with help from Curioos, YOUTH Worldwide, and Depositphotos, the artworks will be featured on large aluminum prints until July 6th.
Our Time (2016) is the latest large-scale installation by United Visual Artists investigating our subjective experience of the passing of time. It defines a physical environment where pendulums swing at a pace apparently unhindered by the laws of nature and where no single time measurement applies. The installation combines movement, light and sound as a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional canvas the visitor can enter. Pendulums swing, each to their own rhythm, as time flows through the grid. With light tracing the path and sound its echo, the passing of time becomes almost palpable.
Claire Luxton works with her own body and face as an object of art creating colourful photography prints available for purchase
Irish illustrator Laura Callaghan is based in London and doing her works as hand drawn using a mixture of watercolour, indian ink and isograph pen.
London based illustrator Thomas Danthony did a lot of new geometric blue screen illustrations since our last visit. Follow him on Instagram as well
Hong Kong raised and London based artist Gabriele Beveridge creates photographic assemblages using portrait photography, glass-blown sculptures and other tiny ritual objects
Last year London-based absolute talent Yulia Brodskaya was commissioned by Wimbledon Tennis Club to create paperwork illustrations for 2015 Championship. Recently she was able to show her full piece for public. Find her works on Facebook Page
For their latest video game INKS, London-based State of Play Games have created a new spin on classic pinball by turning the background of a pinball game into a piece of interactive art. As the ball traverses the course, the bright lights and clanking sounds of traditional pinball are replaced with pockets of watercolor paint that explode into flourishes. The ball in turn leaves trails of color as you solve each level.
“Inspired by artists like Miro, Matisse, Jackson Pollock and Bridget Riley, each table becomes a unique work of art in its own right, sculpted by the player as they fire an ink covered ball around the canvas. The player is encouraged to share their final work of art on social media with the iOS share function. They can even print them out if they like – with the story of their perfect game literally drawn on the canvas in front of them, something to be proud of and share.”
London based directors Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson were asked by Nikon to make a film experimenting with their new camera's low light capabilities. Using 4 Nikon flashes, a 20 meter track and 84 foam board animal frames, we created ‘Nightlife' - A sequence of looped unedited photographs using a combination of different flashes and exposures. The camera EXIF data on each shot shows the settings used
Artist Sofia Bonati (Instagram) creates portraits of enchanting women with a look of mystery in their eyes. She attributes the development of her surrealist style to the likes of Charles Bragg, and takes equal inspiration from the likes of Klimt, Klee and Modigliani.
Read interview with artist on Juniqe
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Talented London-based art and fashion photographer Anna Radchenko shares her last work directed together with Mikhail Svjatogor
Directed by: Anna Radchenko, Mikhail Svjatogor
DOP: Roman Yudin Stylist: Ira Kaufman Stylist's assistants: Lena Ladygina, Quentin Hubert Make-up: Maria Afanasyeva Hair: Marina Melentyeva Model: Alina Mikheeva Set design: Neproneft / Hyperjack 1st day gaffer: Alexandr Okovitski 2nd day gaffer: Denis Shatokhin Video production: Superskazki, Pirate Smile Moscow Producers: Anastasia Limarenko, Anna Radchenko, Mikhail Svjatogor Producer's assistant: Ivan Kazakov Heavy smoke: Andrey Андрей Кобзарь Editor: Mikhail Svjatogor Color grading: Alex Rodriguez Special effects: Mirsaid Bakiev, Mr.Seven, Dobrobot Music: Andrey Novikov, PolyCrave&Clive Sound fx: The Cosmic Setter Fashion film by Radchenko & Svjatogor production Directed by: Anna Radchenko, Mikhail Svjatogor Art Director: Anna Radchenko
