Sculptures by Jaime Pitarch

April 11, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Spain, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2017

Jaime Pitarch creates sculptures, drawings, videos and installations often using humble everyday objects such as a guitar, chair, or household and consumer products. He employs inventive strategies of displacement, re-contextualization and visual punning to peel away at their routine uses and meanings to alter our relationship with such utilitarian items.

Pitarch describes his work as mainly having “… to do with the human being’s inability to identify with the structures he himself has created.” Having been stripped of their functionality, we are free to view them in the alternative narratives the artist provides.

Syncretic Noise

April 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, USA, Portfolios, 2017

Syncretic Noise is an experimental dance film featuring relentless choreography by Jeff Salisbury and stunning sequences entwined in a dystopian tale of isolation and enlightenment.

Director Stephen Bullen creates a film within a silent dialogue of motion to portray a man’s struggle to find peace in contemporary civilisation.

Watch the movie below

Director & Editor - Stephen Bullen
Dance & Choreography - Jeff Salisbury
Colorist - Chris Brands
Visual Effects - Xuejing Xu
Sound Design & Music - Stephen Bullen
Production Company - Between The Notes Productions

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Andoni Beristain

April 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Spain, Photography, 2017

"Andoni Beristain is a photographer and a Creative-Art Director. His shirts are famous, he thinks in the shower, he dislikes heat, he's thorough, symmetrical, colourful and even though he uses humour, he works very seriously. He also likes irony. He's Basque, lives in Barcelona and he knows how to do stuff properly".

@andoniberistain

OFFF 2017 Main Titles

April 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in OFFF, Spain, Motioncollector, 2017

As OFFF festival ended and revealed new dates for the next magical experience during 24-26 May of 2018, we are pleased to share the Main Titles directed by Vallée Duhamel

Inpired by the 1980's Tango short film by Zbigniew Rybszynski, OFFF Barcelona's 2017 Main Titles are a true beauty. Known for their "high class lo-fi" work profile, Vallée Duhamel duo - Eve Duhamel and Julien Vallée - have took the challenge and decided to work on a one of kind piece to showcase the names of all the speakers who took part of this year's edition followed by a live session of shooting 2,000 paper-planes by the audience during their talk.

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OFFF 2017 Movie "New Senses"

OFFF

April 08, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in OFFF, Motioncollector, Spain, 2017

As the largest European design festival rolls out on the shores of sunny Barcelona, OFFF team decided to rid off traditional "Open Titles".

This year is a game changer as festival approached its 16th instalment, director Hector Ayuso called up OUTRO Studio and under direction of Marc Castellví with Àlex Monner and Greta Fernández they created a short movie "New Senses". The title corresponds to OFFF 2017 Festival concept.

Outro studio have decided to represent OFFF as an essential element, a brand that provides a formula for a sensorial rebirth - everything you see, hear, taste, touch and smell is a first time experience.

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Cielo Yu Photography

April 07, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, Taiwan, 2017

"A young Taiwanese photographer, Cielo Yu searches for spontaneous visual discoveries, experimenting with various compositions and colour combinations."

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable: Damien Hirst

Palazzo Grassi

April 07, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Italy, United Kingdom, Sculpture, 2017

"In 2008 the wreck of a treasure ship called the Apistos (meaning “the Unbelievable”) was found on the seabed off east Africa. It sank about 2,000 years ago. Its unique cargo of global artefacts, assembled by a freed slave called Cif Amotan II, have spent two millennia undergoing a “sea change” straight out of Shakespeare’s Tempest, becoming wrapped in coloured corals and bizarre crustacean growths - until the archaeologists who found this sunken marvel asked Hirst to use his millions to help recover it."

"If you believe that, you’ll believe anything. The curators who told this bit of hokum straightfaced at the start of the press view deserve bonuses, if Hirst has not yet bankrupted himself creating this luxury masterpiece. " The Guardian

Photographed by Christoph Gerigk
© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

The elaborate backstory is slightly undercut by the fact that the fake relics include not just historical references, but the faces of Pharrell, Kate Moss, Rihanna, and Die Antwoord singer YoLandi Visser, not to mention Mickey Mouse.

Sphinx by Damien Hirst. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images

‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’, April 9-December 3, Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana, Venice; palazzograssi.it

Photographed by Christoph Gerigk
© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

Skull of a Cyclops and Skull of a Cyclops Examined by a Diver. Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

Photography from exhibition by Rita Bamburova

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First Words by Javier Jaén

April 06, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Graphic Design, Spain, Portfolios, 2017

Barcelona-based creative Javier Jaén spends his days illustrating the world around him. For the past three years, Javier has been building a steady reputation via weekly collaborations with The New York Times Magazine.

"It is work that takes the form photo illustrations for a section called “First Words” which considers the ways language shifts and shapes our understanding of the world. The topics covered are vast and complex, from “The Identity Politics of Whiteness” to “How ‘Political Correctness’ Went From Punch Line to Panic.” For three years, it’s been Javier’s job to make impactful visual images to reduce those arguments into a single image."

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Pierre Kiandjan Art

April 05, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, France, Portfolios, 2017

As Pierre Kiandjan is selecting color mixes, he aims to create illusion of motion, space, and temperature. The challenge consists in gathering simple shapes within complicated blendings. His pieces reveal a clear use of color shades and broken lines. His main influences include futuristic pieces of architecture invented by Mœbius, radiances of light diffracted by Barbara Kasten's mirrors, living compositions sculpted by Jean Arp, and rhythmic gracefulness drawn by Victor Vasarely.

His Parisian studio answers to design needs from clients belonging to a wide spectrum of sectors: Universal Music, Warner Music, Marie Claire magazine, Le Journal de la Maison magazine, Alex Gopher, Morgane Groupe, Album Surf manufacturing company...

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Wardrobe Snacks by Kelsey McClellan

April 05, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Photography, Portfolios, 2017

Wardrobe Snacks is the ongoing project of photographer Kelsey McClellan and stylist Michelle Maguire depicting the matchy-matchy situations in fashion and food mixup

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Disappearing Tokyo Storefronts illustrated by Mateusz Urbanowicz

April 04, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Japan, Portfolios, 2017

As Me Kyeoung Lee documenting the 20 years of conventional stores in Korea, his colleague of illustration world Mateusz Urbanowicz does it in Tokyo, Japan. While exploring the city, Mateusz was surprised to see the perseverance of older, more traditional architectures in spite of the city’s rapidly changing face and its international reputation as a sprawling metropolis.

Knowing all too well how quickly these buildings could be replaced with more modern counterparts, the artist set about illustrating the endearing buildings in a series rich with color, personality, and history.

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Mehdi Lacoste Photography

April 04, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Photography, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017

London-based photographer and art director Mehdi Lacoste creates vivid imagery by juxtaposing human portraits with natural scenery and architecture. Lacoste usually gets his inspiration from taking road trips with friends in various countries. The photographer has shot for the likes of Vogue, i-D, Vice, Nike and Topman.

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Hyper Realistic Sculpture by Sarah Sitkin

April 03, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Sarah Sitkin is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist delivering hyper realistic and somewhat provocative art. Her sculptural works are made in wide variety of media including but not limited to silicone, clay, plaster, resin, and latex.

@sarahsitkin

INORI Prayer - Real-time Face Projection Mapping

April 03, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Japan, Portfolios, Motioncollector, 2017

Nobumichi Asai (previously) released a new experiences with real-time face projection mapping

Watch more of his recent works below

InfraMunk - new Infrared Photography by GMUNK

April 03, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Bradley G Munkowitz best known as epic designer GMUNK shares his new side project and by fact an ongoing series of Infrared Photography. "InfraMunk vs Tracy Arm Fjord" was created during Bradley's trip to Alaska where he toured and photographed the incomparable Tracy Arm Fjord

These photographs were quite unique, as he was equipped with a custom modified Full-Spectrum FujiFilm X-T1 IR, a grip of LifePixel Super-Color Infrared Filters and some Vintage Nikon Manual Focus lenses - together producing some fiercely psychedelic and experimental palettes that portrayed the scenery in an entirely new light

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Assimilate Anew with Etre Britta, dir. by James Aiken

March 31, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, Motioncollector, 2017

'Assimilate Anew' is a collaboration between British filmmaker James Aiken and Australian artist Brittany Stephen - known as Etre Britta.

The film explores the relationship between experience and creative output where the essence of a scene can be transported in a 2d form.

Concept and direction jamesaiken.co
Featuring etrebritta.com
Sounds and music wearefather.com

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StolenForm Ceramics

March 31, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017

StolenForm is a concept brand that specialises in repurposing industrialised objects, transforming them into ceramic home accessories and giftware products.

Christian Marsden is the designer-maker behind StolenForm and has long been inspired by the urban environment. Years spent journeying through London’s streets led him to notice afresh the ubiquitous and foundational features of the city that are so often overlooked: a brick, a manhole cover over a drain or a piece of piping could be reclaimed and elevated to a new level of function and aesthetic value.

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20 years of Convenience by Me Kyeoung Lee

March 30, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, South Korea, Portfolios, Art, 2017

"For the last 20 years, South Korean artist Me Kyeoung Lee has traveled around her home country, armed with acrylic inks and a penchant for painting quaint little convenience stores. Throughout her childhood, Lee recalls frequenting these charming corner stores that are now becoming few and far between in modern-day South Korea. In each painting, she captures every little detail, highlighting each store’s idyllic features, its traditional signage, and miscellaneous bric-à-brac."

JAHNKOY Fashion by Maria Kazakova

March 30, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Portfolios, Russia, Design, Art, 2017

"Jahnkoy" means "new spirit village" on Crimean. Jahnkoy’s work is a decisive return to craft, meaning the very hands that create and define cultures. Siberia-born, the New York-based visual artist Maria Kazakova explores textiles and ancient techniques, and aims to blend the traditional with the contemporary, highlighting the invisible, and reorienting the practice of fashion to the realm of art.

Maria is a graduate from Parsons School of Design with a MFA in Fashion Design & Society, also holds a BFA in Fashion Design from the British Higher school of Art & Design, Moscow and a Graduate Diploma in Fashion from Central Saint Martins, London.

"Maria debuted with "Jahnkoy" collection at New York Fashion Week 2017 and has been shortlisted by LVMH Prize. Also Kazakova was able to secure a collaboration with Puma and resources from Swarovski for her debut collection, quilting second-hand sports t-shirts with embellished fabrics that swaddled the wearer."

Photos from NYC Fashion Week 2017

Campaign video directed by Sasha Kulak

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Nguyen Qui Duc, writing in Vietnam. Courtesy of VAWAA.

Travel Startup Lets You Vacation with Artists from around the World

March 30, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Lifestyle, Agencies, 2017

"Vacation with an Artist" or simply VAWAA is a quite new platform for people like us: those who like travelling with a purpose. With no intend to advertise the service we follow its concept hence it is not new and even Airbnb launched its "Experiences" last year. Through VAWAA, an art-hungry traveler can book several-day workshops with a street artist in Buenos Aires, an ikebana master in Kyoto, and a bamboo bicycle-maker in Bangalore, among other artisans representing a vast array of mediums.