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The new Martian Materials imagined by JVG Studio in their recent CGI project - "What you are going to see came from another planet. The first visuals from outer space ever made. Thanks to NASA's Robotic Mars Exploration Mission we were able to create a collection of abstract images where textures, reliefs, glossiness and colours have been taken from real martian material acquired in their different expeditions."
Japanese digital artist Kota Yamaji that has been graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo 2 years ago. His successful debut at our Digital Decade 5 exhibition in London, where he was presented by event partner - Curioos, landed as a profile on Creative Debuts
Digital Decade 5
Special Artwork made for our exhibition "Cyberia" in London, August 2017
"Lithuanian artist Tadao Cern created a series of delicate, experimental hanging paintings that have nothing to do with paint at all. Inspired by various fabric combinations, ‘Hanging Paintings’ consists of brand new garments and scraps of material that are arranged, draped and wrapped around a simple metal rack, which serves as a canvas.." by Sarah Press, Ignant
Massimiliano Pelletti was born in Pietrasanta, a land of noble sculptural roots that gave and gives a lot to the contemporary art. In Pietrasanta he also grown up, and he trained technically in the study of his grandfather, the sculptor Mario Pelletti. He made his debut as an artist in 2006 by winning the 12th biennial of young artists of Europe and the Mediterranean.
Pelletti makes experience of the shape with rigorous attention compositive, strictly consistent with the creative mood of his territory.
He puts togheter the mannerism with the conceptual relevance and the narrative sensibility, because he realizes that the aesthetic perfectionism contains in itself the conflicting root of the emotions.
Pol Kurucz’s "Uncovers" photo series is a Franco-Russo-Brazilian co-production that pokes fun at conventional magazine covers. Rather than posing to sell, the Uncovers models follow their own aesthetic and behavioural norms to tell a colourful story. Uncovers wants the fashion-savvy crowds to reflect on conventionalism and the lack of freedom in the representation of women in commercial publications. The shootings took place in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo during Pol’s transition phase from the fine art world to the more polished and glamorous universe of fashion magazines. The series was a delicate balancing act between the amazement, the deep respect and the irony that the fashion industry inspires to the photographer. This unpublished photo series will be part of Pol Kurucz’s upcoming exhibitions
Photographer and art director: Pol Kurucz (France)
Styling: Natasha Sync (Russia)
Designers / Brands: Davi Ramos, Fernando Conzedey, Sri Clothing, Wallace Barros, Vitor Zerbinato, Fetisso
Set design: Mary Cruz, Lara Ferro
Casting: Tamires Melo, Carollyna Melo
Hair and Makeup: Fernando Haddad, Will Vieira, Diego Américo
Coordination: Tamires Melo
Technical Assistance and Lighting: Gui Griebler, Lucas Stirling
Anthony Samaniego is a visual artist residing in Los Angeles, California.
Second, in a row, this month OFFF on Tour festival, now baked in 6th time in Mexico brings us amazing Official Titles created by the famous Framestore (guys behind dystopian environments in the new Blade Runner)
Sharon Lock, Head of Design Studio and Creative Director, of the work: "Creating the OFFF CDMX titles has been such an incredible and challenging experience for us all, and I'd like to thank Hector Ayuso for the opportunity to be part of such an iconic event. I'm really humbled that a complete indulgence of everything I love has been pulled together into a single piece of work by such a talented team of artists.
The team has learnt so much in such a short space of time, and it is testament to their dedication and commitment, working above and beyond in their own time, that we've managed to create such a beautiful sequence. I'm honoured that it has been for OFFF, whose creative integrity we've all admired for years."
Concept and Direction: Sharon Lock
Design Director: Stephen Goalby
Lead Design and Edit: Steven Kelly
Art Direction and Design: Dan Herlihy
Designers:
Philip Rambowski
Yukari Schrickel
Louise Walker
Nikola Yordanov
Fire dress modelling: Alice Roseberry-Haynes
Houdini FX: Deniz Cinar
Colourist: Steffan Perry
Audio: Jon Dix (jondix.tumblr.com/)
"Xavier Monney is the 23-year-old designer from Lausanne, Switzerland whose work caught our eye due to his refreshing but incredibly impressive manipulations of type. Xavier combines animation and typography to create three-dimensional experiments, often incorporating some form of optical illusion."
Our friend "Anna Radchenko and Edgar Dubrovskiy team up to bring to life this sombre yet vibrant film. Encompassing rhythm and beauty, the scene is set around Jessica Louise transformed by the smooth makeup of Yulia Yurchenko. Haunting and unforgettable, the poetic composition is round off with comely muted styles by Hiroshi Goto and Dior under the supervision ofCamille Marchand." via Shön!
‘лазер (laser)’ sees Russian dancer Maria Kochetkova navigate a world of floating light, dancing through lasers with emotive and precise choreography.
In a previous collaboration with director Tarik Abdel-Gawad (vimeo.com/96030980), Kochetkova danced within inches of a robotic camera precisely choreographed to capture her every move. In this film, Kochetkova navigates a world of floating light in a unique improvisation between dancer and environment.
It took 3 years for artist Yannick Jacquet to create Élytre, a forty metres long generative work on display at the foot of the the Alexandre III bridge in Paris. The piece was commissioned as a permanent design feature for Le Flow, a floating building moored along the new pedestrian area on the banks of the Seine.
Yannick Jacquet drew inspiration from the dark mass of the barge between the sky and the river to fine-tune his response to the immediate surroundings, calling on the instability and permanence of the flowing water, the infinitely nuanced shifts of light, and the interplay of transparencies between its large plate-glass windows and the glass dome of the Grand Palais just across the water. Drawing on the barge’s organic, cocoon-like architecture, he came up with a highly sensitive, reactive work in the form of an installation that reverses the overall structural inertia of the barge’s four hundred tons of steel, as if echoing Reyner Banham’s principle of regenerative architecture. The installation is linked up to a battery of sensors so that it varies according to the time of year, season, atmospheric pressure, wind speed, temperature, and so on. It is in a constant state of flux, permanently subject to imperceptible shifts.
DCN Partners ELLO Creative Network presents
Cody Ellingham (@cbje_tokyo) - a Tokyo-based art director and photographer.
As OFFF "On Tour" Festival made his first successful step in the hot spot of creative scene - London, one of the best motion design studio FutureDeluxe took care of OFFF London Official Titles
"Hot Art Exhibition is a series of visualisations following the question: What would happen if there would be no air conditioning during extremely hot summer?"
Digital artist Denis Sartakov does a lot of CG art on his own and for commercial needs and recently he caught our attention with the motion graphic interpretation of human heart alive.
Marcel Lisboa - one of the ten winners of our recent Ello x Digital Decade 5 open contest became a base of Phygital Art Exhibition held in London last month at Ugly Duck
Marcel Lisboa for the Digital Decade 5
Graphic designer Marcel Lisboa, living and working in São Paulo/Brazil, uses digital means to create his utterly unique illustrations; all of which expressions of private worlds that reveal a distinct story and invite endless contemplation.
Through digital collage the artist reflects his key inspirations: the Renaissance, the Baroque and Neoclassicism. But by shunning the usual genealogy of the Dadaists, Lisboa creates an unique aesthetic based on stunning draftsmanship and evocative scenography.
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Conceptual artist Alan Belcher explores an intersection between photography and sculpture, creating artworks he defines as ‘photo-objects’. His ‘_____.jpg’ study approaches the jpeg icon with a manner of directness and humour.
The installation shots from Belcher’s exhibition ‘Preview’ at Le Consortium assemble over one hundred ‘_____.jpg’ pieces in various layouts, causing a visual glitch between the gallery’s white wall and a folder of jpeg previews on a computer screen.
Revising the works of Ben Wiseman (previously) who illustrates for Wired, Le Monde or The New Yorker in his own minimal "cut-out" style
After Fabergé, is a personal project and ongoing exhibition of five digital prints created by artist Jonathan Monaghan, to run a half year at The Walters opening in November
After Fabergé is a series of five prints which transform an iconic symbol of status and wealth into uncanny objects composed of modern furniture, computer parts, and historic architecture. Set on stark white backgrounds and rendered with perfect glossy surfaces, the imagined forms appear almost like a commercial product with an eerily ambiguous function. The eggs are meticulously crafted in virtual space and are presented as highly-detailed, large photographic prints
