Chiharu Shiota’s New Monumental Work

In her latest work at the historic Le Bon Marché department store in Paris, Chiharu Shiota provides the visitors with an immersive experience, poetically inviting them to “sail towards a fresh start.”

Known for her monumental art installations, Shiota has suspended 150 sculptural boats from the store’s central glass roof, using nearly 300,000 yards of yarn. A part of the ‘Where are we going?’ exhibition, it also includes the work ‘Memory of the Ocean’, a multi-sensory mesh wave evoking the impression of walking under the big water. Asking rhetorically: ‘Where are we going?’, the artist refers to the mysterious destinations that shape our lives. She says: “The creation of this indecipherable mesh and its plasticity are a mystery, just like our brain, the universe, and of course, life. I have no answers, only questions. These questions are the foundations of my work.” The exhibition will be displayed at Le Bon Marché until February 18, 2017.

All images © Gabriel de la Chapelle

Transcending Boundaries

Butterflies flap, a wild ocean rages and a waterfall cascades through the space in teamLab’s digital art exhibition, currently on show at Pace London.

In the mind, there are no boundaries between ideas and concepts, they are inherently ambiguous and influence and interact with each other. In order for ideas and concepts to be expressed in the real world it is necessary to have a physical material substance through which they are mediated. Boundaries are created when ideas and concepts are materialized in the real world.

Within the digital domain, art is able to transcend physical and conceptual boundaries. Digital technology allows art to break free from the frame and go beyond the boundaries that separate one work from another. Elements from one work can fluidly interact with and influence elements of the other works exhibited in the same space. In this way, the boundaries between art pieces dissolve.

teamLab (f. 2001, Tokyo, by Toshiyuki Inoko) is an interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, design and the natural world. Rooted in the tradition of ancient Japanese Art and contemporary forms of anime, teamLab operates from a distinctly Japanese sense of spatial recognition, investigating human behavior in the information era and proposing innovative models for societal development

Maya Prokhorova Design

Balancing between object fetish and function, Saint Petersburg-based award-winning designer Maya Prokhorova creates concepts not for our simple life. With every project she solves a common problem and deliver top-notch examples of product design for smart living.

Currents by GMUNK

Pioneer of digital renaissance his majesty GMUNK or just mr. G Munkowitz is back with a new installation called "CURRENTS". This Lightform Sculpture was created by the dream team of himself, architect Lorenzo Vianello, projection mapping wizard Philip Reyneri and motion graphics ace Peter Call Me The Clark. 

Night Project by Marilyn Mugot

French artist and photographer Marilyn Mugot is mentioned here for her Night Project shot on different locations with long exposure. Dive into her night world of urban neon and fairy landscapes

Soft Art by Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia

Based in Santiago de Chile artist Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia creates rug-like tapestries using colourful soft materials

Digitally combined photos by Artem Pozdniakov

Combing few photographs or objects and brining a new sense by a collage is being practiced for a long time in art history but never has been distributed so fast until Instagram-era developing nowadays. Artem Podzniakov's Instagram is the latest addition to the wall of fame in Combined Photography, even having some repetitive works we've seen before he creates new "meaningless objects" in a very unorthodox way

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An Ultraviolet LED Light from TJOKEEFE

"TJOKEEFE kills it with graphic, angular furniture and objects and the latest release, UV, is a bold triangular light sculpture that hangs on a flat surface or in a corner. A flexible, woven nylon thread is what creates the triangular composition when it’s suspended on the wall. With the ultraviolet LEDs embedded in the powder-coated aluminium bar, the thread becomes its own light source as the ultraviolet light projects onto it, creating the ethereal red and purple, triangular glow."

Pantone Greenery and Airbnb appartement in London

Pantone Colour of the Year - Greenery has been brought to life in Clerkenwell, London by collaboration with Airbnb. In-house experiences are interactive — guests can hear the sounds of nature, forage from its walls for herbs, drink tea with leaves picked from a hydroponics installation, choose plants to make terrarium vases, and even pick leaves to design custom-prints.

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You _could_ book this experience on Airbnb website, but no chance now. Anyway you are welcome to check our selection of great places to stay around the world below with a little discount

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Killer in Red

While still being intoxicated from the visual narrative of the "Young Pope" TV series, its director Paolo Sorrentino strikes again with a new epic red Noir Film for Campari alcohol. "Killer in Red" is a cocktail and .. well you better watch this till the end

Napoli Project by Alexey Kondakov

After enormous success of "Art History in Contemporary Life" photographer Alexey Kondakov was invited to Italy to do an artist-in-residence solo show named "Napoli Project" (organised with the help of ShowDesk). Alexey took the challenge with a high class just because there was no place for a weak response when doing art collages based mainly on Italian masterpieces and on Italian soil.

EPOCH by Ash Thorp

Epoch is an experimental film intended to take you on a voyage through our solar system and beyond. It is a personal project of Ash Thorp orchestrated to share our enjoyment and admiration for science fiction films and literature.

Escheresque Art Space

Penda Architects lead by Chris Precht created an “escheresque” space with arches, steps and mirrors for an art auditorium in the center of Beijing. What they have done literally can be described as nested doll effect by inserting multi-layered space into the structure of existent Hongkung cultural district building.

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Dark Underwater Photography by Mira Nedyalkova

"So much Ophelias and no one to save them", this what you may think looking at Mira's ongoing photography series "Underwater".

“My photographs are not exactly a photographs, my creations are somewhere in between paintings and photography. In my images I use pain as a beauty, erotic as a psychological way of life. I express myself and my intimate inner life. Indeed, the majority of my works are in the water, this of course is not accidental. From many points of view, for me the water is very suitable means to express what I carry in me and recreate my ideas.. It’s really inspiring to me the water is my creation. The creation the life, the power...the water is filled with tremendous energy. It is the winner of pleasure and delight it gives life, but also poses a risk, threat, it can destroy us. I love the transparency and purity of water light and reflecting and transformations that is suffered in contact with another medium.
For me the water is highly erotic element precisely because of the opposites that brings. Water is the one who quenches our thirst and saves us. Lust for life of each of us, the thirst for love and the eternal struggle and attempt to erase, to dull to heal the pain, sadness, loneliness...”

— Mira Nedyalkova

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Pause 2017 Opening Titles

This year's theme of Melbourne-based Pause festival is "Different Perspective" starting in February. For massive opening titles (for somehow revealed before the start) they invited Chinese CG artist Zaoeyo

“The whole idea was inspired by an anime called “Digimon Adventure”, whose opening scenes show the different angle of a night city and digital creatures.Therefore, we decide to focus on a different angle or perspective of empty cities, to express a feeling of isolation, despite the fact we live in these spaces. The idea of using a cat for guidance is borrowed from an indie game called “HK”, which will enhance the feeling of isolation between human and their environment. Also this is all CGi made in Cinema 4D with Octane Render.”

— Zaoeyo

Making of

Everyday illustrations by Ilya Kazakov

Russian illustrator Ilya Kazakov practice his skills everyday by creating an artworks featuring funny characters

Visual Impact by Kim Bo Huy

Graphic designer from Seoul Kim Bo Huy sets up new standards for dual language poster design by delivering awesome examples of work for local festivals and events

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16 Digital Artists of 2016

Last year was the game changer for our path.  We went deeper into the emerging Digital Art industry by revealing more and more new artists. By doing a standalone exhibition in London for our own annual collaboration the Digital Decade For TOP 2016 we selected the best 16 new names that are worth to watch in 2017. Please follow the list below

Nike SNKRS Box Experience

To celebrate the U.S. Basketball team going for the Gold in Rio 2016, Hybrid Design partnered with Nike Brand Design and Golden Wolf to create one-of-kind boutique retail experience, re-launching an equally unique shoe: The Nike Air Foamposite One. This larger-than-life, digital sneaker box projected 4 sides of Air Foamposite One-inspired animation, visible from as far as the Bay Bridge in San Francisco

Colourful Dialogues by Jean-Michel Verbeeck

"Color Dialogues" is an ongoing series of abstract digital graphics created by Buck art director Jean-Michel Verbeeck. By experimenting witch shapes and colour, his images reject the traditional boundaries and explore new ways of experiencing visual imagery.

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