The HEX by Raven Kwok

The HEX is a live audiovisual experience and collaborative installation project between visual artist Raven Kwok and musical artist / producer Karma Fields (soundcloud.com/karmafields). The installation includes a surrounding set of screens forming a hexagonal prism, with generative visuals projected onto each vertical surface, making it possible for the audience to experience the piece from different perspectives. Karma Fields performs live in the center of the HEX. All visuals are created and programmed by Raven Kwok using Processing (processing.org/). The HEX debuted on 11.10.2016 at LOT 613, Los Angeles, CA, US.

Witches by Denise De La Rue

On 22 June,  the second part of Mexican artist Denise De La Rue’s special exhibition “Angels and Witches” Goya Metamorphose opens at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid. The artist has created a series of mesmerising photographs juxtaposing iconic Spanish actresses with the painter’s work, analysing the dichotomies and similarities between these characters whilst engaging with historical and relevant sites such as the Museum.

The works are imbued with mysticism, magic, life, death, and the powers of creation, transformation and destruction, characteristics which De La Rue has recognised in Goya’s angels and witches and as key characteristics of the acting profession. These paintings therefore create a dialogue between the actresses and Goya’s paintings and demonstrate De La Rue’s interest in researching the capability of women to transform and empower themselves, which historically has been seen as threatening to the conservative preconception of patriarchal societies.

This exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience the full series of Goya’s Witches. Two of the works have been lost and De La Rue has recaptured them by retrieving historic files that include details of the works. Using photography technology, the artist has reconstructed the works and reunited them in the same space for the first time since the pieces left the Dukes of Osuna’s, the series’ commissioner, hands. Two of the works are owned by the Lázaro Galdiano and will be on show alongside Witches. 

The first part of “Angels and Witches” Goya, Metamorphose was Angels at the Royal Chapel of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid, where Goya’s remains rest as well as where some of his most recognised frescos are. Having the two exhibitions of Angels and Witches in dialogue with Goya’s work in these pertinent venues is a unique opportunity to see and understand Goya’s interest in witchcraft and the holy, revised by photography and a contemporary perspective.

Video from previous installation "Angelas" inspired by Goya

Just Say Yes

“Just Say Yes” is a film on the idea of fear being represented as a positive generator, showcased through Héctor Ayuso’s figure (OFFF Festival founder and triathlon athlete) and on how he confronts his own fears by running towards them, through sports triathlons, by simply saying YES.

Based on Héctor’s life motto “just say yes”, the film narrates the story on overcoming risks and turning them into goals. From personal stories to documented sports events, the project includes various collaborations with artists, friends and previous OFFF artists to reflect both creativity and sports lifestyles as we will witness the last biggest fear which Héctor will conquer: Ultraman Florida, an extreme Individual Ultra-Endurance Event.

Directed by: César Pesquera
Produced by: Story:
Screenplay by: César Pesquera and Marc Sanchez
Original Score: White Noise Lab

Footage courtesy of Sam Peacocke

Nebula by Leonardoworx

NEBULA is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionised gases. Looking at one of these is like, at the same time, watching to the future and the past, due too the light velocity and the distance between us and them. 

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Leonardoworx made a design research about this concept, and "we are made of stardust" manifesto. It's an ordered disorder guided by abstract shapes with nebulas textures in a first step.
"In the second one I painted my imaginary textures (inspired always by real nebulas). Looking at universe is so inspiring and it shows how little we are in space and time dimensions," - says Leonardo

HI-RES by Romulo Celdran

Imagined and executed by Madrid-based artist, Rómulo Celdran, the artworks entitled HI-RES, are divided into three distinct categories: Solid, Voxel, and Mesh. The goal of HI-RES for Celdran is to emphasise the artist's undying preoccupation with the ever-evolving and limitless possibilities of the 3D virtual world. As the artist explains, its the 3D world's "capacity and plasticity as a valid reference for pictorial and sculptural creation."

Pokras Lampas x FENDI

Russian Calligrafiturism artist Pokras Lampas spent 500 l of yellow paint, 1250 sq.m of calligraphy for the fabulous "F.. is for Fendi" campaign performed on the top of monumental HQ of Fendi in Rome at Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana (Colosseo Quadrato)

An official Calligraffiti ambassador (and freak), Pokras Lampas is blurring the frontiers with his brushes and paint buckets. He is one of the most talented modern artists, and is totally rewriting stuff through Calligrafuturism, his personal way of expressing his version of our uber-global and sometimes-crazy world. This globetrotter is also spreading the word about modern calligraphy and collaborating with crazy cool brands and artists.

He realized the biggest Calligraffiti in Italy on FENDI rooftop at Palazzo Della Civiltà Italiana, reinterpreting the F IS FOR…manifesto throughout freedom of expression, art, culture and optimism all around!

Not only he’s a super fly freak – who happens to love Kanye West – but he is also an incredible masterpiece machine. Pokras Lampas captures, creates, interprets and simply makes magic magic.

Totally goosebumps-worthy, his time in Rome with the F is For… crew was so rad, filled with an intense, gigantic-lettered poem, shapes and lines that basically set the standard once again for what we label as authentic talent.

Scarlett Johansson narrates short movie about Jeff Koons

"What is Jeff Koons‘s art really about? According to a newly released mini-documentary, narrated by none other than Scarlett Johansson, the answer is new things (vacuum cleaners, basketballs, shiny surfaces) and old things (Praxitales, Massacio, and Led Zepplin)."

"The eight-minute video traces the artist’s rise from outsider to art-world giant with a little help from ScarJo’s smoky-voiced narration. The actress, it turns out, is a big fan of the 62-year-old. Directed by Oscar Boyson, the video was produced last spring in collaboration with MOCA"

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Conversation

Emmanuel Levinas, a French philosopher, states that Other, dissimilar and incommensurable to oneself, appears to one as a ‘visage’. Though the manifestation of Other’s visage, both natural and inevitable, could seem to one as an unilateral intrusion, it establishes a passage to transcend the outer world from the enclosed inner self as the subject that perceives and embraces the visage. One, therefore, is completed from the responsibility and understanding of Other, ultimately finding one’s true self.

The photography project ‘Conversation’ is a journey that begins from concerns of acquaintances, eventually finding oneself in the process. In the photographs, the space becomes the world where one encounter the Other, and the cloth tossed into the air becomes the medium that draws out one's relationship with Other. Other, as an unsubstantial light flashed into space, actualises when the visage materialises onto the aimlessly tossed cloth, and one’s act of capturing the moment signifies one's conversation with the Other. One finds one’s essence through Other, not just an illusion of light, but as a real existent materialised on a white cloth.

Created by Jeong Wonjun

Iridescent Loops by Andrei Proko

Paris-based photographer and art director of Courreges Parfums, Andrei Proko, creates small but impressive loops for in-house campaigns

Water Made Active

In its new ‘Water Made Active’ ad for G Active, Gatorade pushes the boundaries by creating a stop-motion athlete using drops of water, precision-timed strobe photography and a liquid printer. 

As if the result alone wasn’t impressive enough, the team has revealed that the commercial was made entirely in-camera. James Medcraft, the project’s director of photography explained, “We’re using the flash to freeze the water droplets at a very precise moment in space, and we’re having to do that with millimeter and microsecond accuracy.” 

The liquid printer, which took 5,000 man-hours to build, comprises more than 20,000 parts and 2,048 individual nozzles. Each nozzle turned on and off within two milliseconds. The printer would drop frame-by-frame animations, which the strobes would freeze in mid-air via flash. To create the motion sequence, the team charted data from a real athlete who ran, jumped, and kicked while wearing sensors. 

Directed by: Cole Paviour 

Director of Photography: James Medcraft

Production Company: UNIT 9

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Pictoplasma: Face Off

Our friends at Pictoplasma shares their latest

Call for Entries

Show Your True Self with a Character Selfie!

With several trillion photos now in circulation, what do all the endless selfies, profane profile pics, and pathetic Face Swaps really say about our identities?

Pictoplasma challenges young, emerging artists AGED 18-24 to truly express their personality with a self-portrait that lets their real character shine.

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Bicycle Drawings by Nickalas Blade

Nickalas Blades is a self taught photorealistic oil painter who resides and paints in Reno, NV. He is definitely addicted to bikes (just like us) and the aesthetics of classic Italian frames.

Giovanni Gastel Photography

"Giovanni Gastel's static scenes provide an alluring and unsettling glimpse into private spaces characterised by poetic irony and balance"

"Combining minimalist design with voyeuristic angles, audiences are invited to measure and compare different modes of domesticity in the works of Giovanni Gastel. Each living room is a hive of conceptualised activity"

" Milan-born Giovanni Gastel first has contact with photography in the 1970s, which truly began to take shape in 1981 when he was introduced to the world of fashion, collaborating with the likes of @vogueitalia and @mondouomo. Ritratti di Living plays upon flattened shadows and deep colours, providing an emotional backdrop for the lifestyles advertised."

Text via Aesthetica Magazine

Three Dimensional Calligrafuturism

Rising star of Russian street, fashion and calligraphy art scene Pokras Lampas shared one of his numerous commercial projects he did for Russian flagman Nike store

Photography: Den Bychkobvsky

Digital Decade 5: Searching for Cyberia

We are stocked to announce our own "Digital Decade 5: Cyberia" Print Design Competition is up and running. Together with Ello creative platform and Curioos marketplace we are looking for new internet artists to showcase in a London Exhibition

*Must have Ello.co Account

Print Design Competition Dates
June 7, 2017 - July 5, 2017 at 11:59pm GMT

London's Exhibition Dates
August 25, 2017 - August 27, 2017 at “Ugly Duck” Tanner St. 47/49, London SE1 3PL

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Phygital Exhibition

We are extremely happy to won the Creative Season Summer 17 at London's Ugly Duck residence in August for 3 days. The Digital Decade 5 “Cyberia” is a group show based on artworks and installations selected by a group of partners and curators mainly from Digital and Video Art fields. Phygital Exhibition includes immersive experience in Physical and Digital works to be done in Prints (including Competition Winners), VR Art (check website for VR opportunities), Interactive and Projection Mapping installations

Casey Weldon

Casey Weldon (previously) crafts surreal, sometimes absurd paintings that play with the everyday and the otherworldly alike. The artist, based in Washington, D.C., is featured in a new show at Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles. “Sentimental Deprivation” continues the thread of that duality in the artist’s work. The show starts June 3 and runs through June 24

Elena Iv-skaya Photography

Elena Iv-skaya is an international photographer based in Réunion island. She is specialized in beauty and fashion commercial work.  Her style is permeated with the passion for highly aesthetic, strong and elegant imagery.

Miles Johnston Art

Talented British artist based in Sweden Miles Johnston takes pencil art to a new level

Doodle Art by Visoth Kakvei

"Cambodian artist Visoth Kakvei masterfully brings together symbolism and style, and no sketchbook has enough pages for his creativity.

The 27-year-old graphic designer usually draws his works freehand and the pieces take 3-6 hours to finish, but sometimes Kakvei feels it's not enough. So, to make his incredibly intricate maze-like illustrations even more stunning, the artist digitally enhances them, making the doodles appear as if they're popping out from the pages.

His mostly nature-inspired designs have already earned Visoth a staggering 800k following on Instagram and his fan army only keeps on growing."

The One Backpack

Our friends from ONE are releasing their awesome shell-backpack to public on Kickstarter

The One Backpack

Customisable as a hell

The ONE Backpack gives its owner an opportunity to express themselves in their own special and creative way according to everyday changing style, by customising it through the replaceable outer Shell. The One Backpack look can be easily changed  just by zipping the Shell with different colours and textures to the backpack.      

Today, The One Backpack is represented in one of the 10 Best Fashion Museums in the World - the "Tassenmuseum Hendrikje" in Amsterdam.

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Few words about the product features: The ONE Backpack is fully handcrafted with the finest Italian black leather. Inside there is a safety laptop and iPhone pockets. It is designed with the anti-theft system - the main zipper of backpack is located on inner side, that adjoins to back. The One Shell is made of high quality black glossy plastic, which perfectly reflects its futuristic fashionable polygonal form. The Shell is also water resistant and keeps your stuff in safety in any kind of activity

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