Explore: A Visual Essay by Andres Rossi

January 08, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Portfolios, Spain, 2018

Exploration seems to be a human compulsion, so I wanted to tell a little story in the form of a visual essay, with a few images that can each convey an emotion related to Explore, showing a progression, going from Footsteps on a trail, climbing, looking at the skies, travellling through the void of space and in the end turning to meditation, completing a full circle.

Concept Design and animation: Andres Rossi
Music & SFX: Duomoro - duomoro.com

@andresrossistudio

Sculpture by Toru Kurokawa

January 05, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2018

Japanese artist Toru Kurokawa sculpts improbable liquid and biological shapes from a variety of ceramic materials. What begins life as a mere lump of clay, the artist molds and carves into artworks that appear like arrays of honeycomb, undulating coral, or dripping stalactites. Last year Kurokawa had a solo show with Sokyo Gallery titled The Savage Math, and you can see more of his work on Artsy

Lucy Hardcastle Reel

January 04, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2018

One of the Phygital Art pioneer Lucy Hardcastle (previously) released her show reel of selected works she did in 2017

@luhardcastle

Art of Light by Adela Andea

January 03, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

"Romanian-born artist Adela Andea creates futuristic light installations that range from wall-based works to immersive environments. The pieces appears as lit explosions, with LED lights, magnifying lenses, and flex neon springing outwards in a blend of chaos and control. Despite their composition of electrified material, each work is inspired by a natural phenomena. Andea looks to bioluminescent sea life, melting icebergs, and cosmological events to shape the composition and meaning of her large-scale installations." via Colossal

Andea is currently represented by Anya Tish Gallery in Houston and Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas. You can see more of her neon-based installations on her website

Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement

January 02, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Japan, Motioncollector, 2018

"For their latest dizzying interactive installation, Japanese collective teamLab (previously) brought the ocean indoors, creating a projected environment that reacts to the movements of visitors, all encased within the infinite space of a mirror room. Titled “Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement” the work is inspired in part by the life cycle of the ocean, particularly the movement of plankton as represented by the reactive particle effects that spin like whirlpools as you pass through the exhibition space. The speed and direction of people’s movements are all factored into the projections and in the absence of motion the room gradually reverts to darkness." via Colossal

The Vortices installation just opened at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia where it will remain on view through April 15, 2018

@teamlab_news

London Fireworks 2018

January 01, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2018

Every beginning of a new year we share London Fireworks as a small tradition. The smooth start of 2018 is not an exception and we wish you the best in the New Year!

The 50 Digital Artists we curated offline in 2017

December 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Decade, Digital Art, Events, United Kingdom, Art, 2017

Instead of doing our classic Cream of the Top we decided to look back and underline the best thing we did this year. Definitely it was the 5th instalment of Digital Decade collaboration with 50 artists (let's say top artists of 2017 by our version) that ended in August as a group show of Phygital Art in London. And it wouldn't happen without a great support of the partners listed below:

Curated by Arseny Vesnin

The concept of Digital Decade5: Cyberia was “the Unknown Territories Shaped by the Digital Ethnos”. This, “Ethnos” refers to the generation of digital people that are changing our world, and continuing to influence our culture. As our world becomes increasingly digital, it ultimately transforms to become a ‘Cyberia’.

Identity of Cyberia

The whole identity of Digital Decade 5 was created by famous artist Ruslan Khasanov who has recently won ADC Young Gun 15 Award and Behance selected him to decorate their own Behance Decade :)

@ruskhasanov

First us then Apple

The curator of Digital Decade and Designcollector founder Arseny Vesnin was happy enough to cross path with leading artist Shane Griffin whose works you can see on iPhone X and 8 now. But long before this, he created a special artwork for Cyberia collaboration

Digital Decade 5

iOS 11 Wallpapers

@grif

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The idea to get on board one of the pioneer of digital art - Aristarkh Chernyshev came to me after I revisited "Electronic Superhighway" exhibition in Whitechapel in 2016. That's how we got his famous electric marquee artwork to the walls of Cyberia exhibition

@aristarkh_chernyshev

Video Art went high

This year Digital Decade was expanded not only with VR installations but with a whole new world of Video Art. Together with our new partners - Sedition Art we came up with a Collaboration Call for Arms and selected 5 Artist to join our exhibition.

Learn More on Sedition Art

Exhibition Artists

The idea of a phygital (digital with physical) art was fully evolved during the exhibition by inviting talented VR artists. Together with the help of Virtually Mine Ltd we installed immersive installations of

Desislava Desseva

Daniel Armegnol Altayo

Salomé Chatriot

The Kissinger Twins

Jose Montemayor

Melanie Courtinat

MARPI

Anna Neklesa

ELLO x DCN

The whole event wouldn't happen without a massive support from Ello Creative Network and we are really happy to roll into 2018 affair with them. During the first month of summer together with 20 Jury Members we shortlisted 60 artists and selected 10 winners whose artworks joined our exhitibition

Alexy Préfontaine

Alice Conisbee

Cy Tone

Daina Hodgson

Davy Evans

Elena Kulikova

Emmanuel Achusim

Fill Ryabchikov

Karen Rodriguez

Marcel Lisboa

Learn More on ELLO

Stay Hungry, Stay Curioos

The whole event featured 15 installation artists and 35 print artists including the winners above. Together with our best partners at Curioos we selected 25 artists to join the search of Cyberia on the "Unknown territories shaped by the Digital Ethnos"

Antoni Tudisco

Antony Kitson

Archan Nair

Ben Paul

Blake Kathryn

Carolina Fuenmayor

Cityabyss

Daniel Taylor

Daria Popovskaia

Desislava Desseva

Dorian Legret

Whitecalx

Kirill Maksimchuk

Kota Yamaji

Louise Mertens

Matthew Custar

Max Sobkowski

Oksana Zmorovych

Rik Oostenbroek

Santi Zoraidez

Shane Griffin

Sasha Katz

Slava Semenuta

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Buy Aluminium Prints on Curioos

Digital Decade 5 was hosted by Ugly Duck space as a part of their Creative Seasons program. Ugly Duck is a London Based social enterprise that revitalises empty and underused buildings, and open them up for creative uses. Ugly Duck has also been used as unusual locations for films, photoshoots, and events.

Exhibition Catalogue

There is no good exhibition without collectible catalogue of featured artists. Digital Decade 2017 is no exception and you can still support us by ordering the catalogue to your doors.

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Official Video from Event

Follow the Leading Digital Art Event

Now you have no other reasons but to follow our initiative entering the Sixth Instalment in 2018

with partners like Creative Debuts, POSH.SPACE, ELLO and Curioos

DIGITALDECADE.NET

@digital.decade

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Xhxix Art

December 26, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2017

Xhxix is a Tokyo-based artist whose digital paintings depict mostly gaunt young men in surreal states of mental anguish or physical injury. His subjects are inspired by niche models, such as Jacob Morton, whose pictures he gathers off the internet.

@xhxixart

Kirsten Beets Art

December 25, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, South African Republic, Portfolios, 2017

Cape-Town-rooted artist Kirsten Beets works predominantly with oil paint on paper. Her main subject is the interaction between humans and nature.

"The artist infuses observations of people and places, fleeting moments, into physical objects. She lifts their significance to touchstones of remembrance. Beets’ artworks represent the fragmentary illustrations of a shifting memory. They oscillate between the feeling of dry, heat shimmering Cape Town, geometric-shaped swimming pools and the preserved green nature of the suburban and gardens. In her paintings the artist expresses the illusionary spaces that remind of nature but are in fact fully constructed by humans. This play with illusion is substantial for Beet’s works where she comments on the interaction between humans and their environment in a bigger picture. Beets has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Scuola Internationale di Grafi in Venice, Italy. She also took part in the Cape Town and the Johannesburg Art Fairs."

@kirst_b_kind

Gutless Wonder

December 25, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in 2017, Digital Art, Portfolios

"Gutless Wonder creates eye-popping CG illustrations and 3D sculptures. With intricate patterns and vivid colours, her work brings to mind psychedelia, religious iconography and tribal art." Read full interview on Creative Review

@gutlesswonder

Rubber People by Simon Christoph Krenn

December 21, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, 2017

"Simon Christoph Krenn’s 3D animation, Parasitic Endeavours, initially started out as the creative wanting to explore distorted perspectives on human evolution."

The result is a compilation of body parts, mainly heads and torsos, that wobble along a white backdrop and bump together like rubber mannequins. The hyperreal detail is unnerving and to see recognisable human parts being manipulated making the viewer feel both uncomfortable and mesmerised.

Words by Rebecca Fulleylove, It's Nice That

Banksy x Danny Boyle "The Alternativity"

December 20, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Street Art, United Kingdom, 2017, Art

The story of how Britain’s favourite artist Banksy teamed up with Britain’s favourite film director Danny Boyle to put on a moving nativity play at The Walled Off Hotel in December 2017.

Memory Lapses by François Ollivier

December 19, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Canada, Portfolios, Photography, Art, 2017

Memory Lapses are temporary installations photographed by François Ollivier when he revisited places linked to strong memories, past or recent. By overexposing reflective material in the process, data becomes absent from the digital file, creating an empty zone in the image that alters reality and distorts our perception: like time and distance do.

@francoisollivier

Ron Mueck "Mass" Large-scale Skull Installation

NGV Melbourne

December 15, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, United Kingdom, Sculpture, 2017

As part of NGV Triennial, twenty large-scale new artworks have been commissioned by the NGV, including Ron Mueck’s Mass 2016–17, a monumental work of extraordinary presence comprising 100 individual skulls.

"Mass" is an installation of 100 individual human skull forms piled up on the gallery floor, each which engage with the architecture of the site.

"The installation brings to mind the massed remains in the catacombs of Paris, an imposing wall of human heads that resonates with a simultaneous and strange sense of impermanence and eternality. In ‘Mass’, Mueck celebrates the form that links all humanity and pays homage to a symbol that has stood within the art of essentially all cultures and religion. surrounded by skulls covering nearly every surface of the walls, visitors are reminded of the transience of life" via designboo

@ronmueckart

Guerilla Flower Installations on the Streets of NYC by Lewis Miller Design

December 14, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in USA, Street Art, 2017

"For the last few months, New Yorkers have been treated to an unexpected sight during their daily commutes as random trash cans around the city have been converted into overflowing bouquets of colourful flowers. The temporary installations dubbed “Flower Flashes” are the idea of floral designer Lewis Miller Design who utilise a mixture of post-event flowers and fresh stock to create the displays on street corners or around statues, reminding us somewhat of Geoffroy Mottart’s installations in Brussels. You can see more of Lewis Miller’s work on Instagram. " via Colossal

@lewismillerdesign

Ceramic Donuts by Jae Yong Kim

December 13, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, South Korea, 2017

For his ongoing series of ceramic donuts, sculptor Jae Yong Kim chooses patterns and images that evoke a sense of pop culture both past and present

“Without my intention, references to Pop Art have been a consistent occurrence throughout the entirety of the donut artworks. Questioning myself regarding the donuts falling in line with a specific genre has brought questions and need for understanding. Each individual donut has invariably read to me as a small painting; color, pattern and physicality have been the ultimate procedure for my personal expression.”

— Jae Yong Kim

@jae_yong_kim_nyc

HALF&HALF Gzhel Plates

December 12, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, Portfolios, Russia, 2017

It began few years ago when Russian Design magazine AD asked 5 leading designers to come up with pilot projects to save significant local industries from dying out of ideas. We wrote about Yar Misonzhnikov reinventing Vologda lace traditions. But today we put on review the only one project went in production

That was a redesign of classic Gzhel Porcelain Ceramics by then a designer and now art-director of Strelka Institute - Anna Kulachek. In 2015 together with HALF&HALF production firm, Anna released a small bunch of desert plates HALF&KULACHEK - the modern designs that use classical Gzhel colour motifs and geometrical patterns.

This autumn, the company decided to produce a limited supply of table version plates (27.5 cm) in two colours. Next year, the brand owners intend to continue the series with the same print, as well as produce cups, sugar bowls and other objects.

halfand.co

KHADI by Helena Bajaj Larsen

December 11, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, France, Portfolios, 2017

Designer Helena Bajaj Larsen left Paris to move to New York and attended Parsons School of Design. Her focus from the start has been on textile design and the exploration of a surface through print, knit and various other techniques. Outside of school, she tried to develop textile related skills as much as she could through internships (Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna, Mary Katrantzou for Embroidery, Thakoon) and workshops in India.

For her final terms in Parson she chose the topic of "khadi". Khadi constitutes an Indian homespun cotton cloth often referred to as “the fabric of social change” due to its crucial role in the Indian Independence movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. Her thesis by this very name is a contemporary take on an old story which is both close to her heart as it reflects her family history but also embodies her passionate relationship to textiles.

“I travelled to many factories and collectives studying how Khadi was made from start to finish (plucking the cotton, to weaving it and then dying it) which helped me better understand the potential of collaboration between craftsmen and designers and when the opportunity presented itself in April, I applied for a design fellowship in Haiti led by Donna Karan and in partnership with Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation. Thankfully I was one of the three students they chose to go to down to Haiti for the summer to develop a range of products with the local artisans at a design training center called D.O.T located in the capital city. It was an incredible experience and ever since I have been trying to think of ways I could keep working on projects of this sort.”

— Helena Bajaj Larsen

www.helenabajajlarsen.com

Recently, Helena was shortlisted as one of the top 20 finalists for the WGSN X ARTS THREAD Future Creator Award as well as one of the five selected brands (out of 600 applicants) of the Lakmé Gen Next Mumbai Fashion Week competition. Each year they select five young designers to showcase their work among established Indian designers at the country’s largest fashion event.

Photographer: Helena Bajaj Larsen
Model: Neloufar Taheri
Styling Assistant: Mary Raggazino

@helena.bajaj.larsen

The Velvet Underground & Nico, 1969

Reimagined by Fill Ryabchikov

@filianstudio

Reimagining Record Covers

December 11, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, 2017

Our friends and Digital Decade partners - Depositphotos invited 19 digital artists to re-imagine legendary record covers

The Beatles, Abbey Road

Reimagined by Alex Norg

@alexnorg

David Bowie, Aladdin Sane

@cy_tone

Reimagined by Cy Tone

Pink Floyd

Reimagined by Antony Kitson

@oneteneleven

Patti Smith, Horses

Reimagined by Julian Weise

Sex Pistols

Reimagined by Evgeny Moryakov

Behance

Grace Jones

Reimagined by Louise Mertens

@louise_mertens

Depeche Mode

Reimagined by Giga Kobidze

@gigakobidze

Aphex Twin

by Giacomo Carmagnola

@gore_xv

Amy Winehouse

Reimagined by Sergey Serebrennikov

@dotz_3s

View all submissions on special page

19 Record Covers Reimagined

BROSMIND: Working With a Brother

December 08, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Spain, Portfolios, Illustration, Graphic Design, 2017

OFFF Festival residents BROSMIND is a creative duo of brothers Juan and Alejandro Mingarro. During his childhood, Juan and Alejandro already formed a prolific creative pair that could be considered as the germ of what is now its visual and conceptual universe. This fact personifies the essence of Brosmind, and is of great importance both in the contents that generate and in the mechanics of work.

To make a retrospective of their work BROSMIND ran the exhibition "Working with a brother" this year. The retrospective reflected on the importance of the fraternal bond that exists between the brothers and described how the present work can be considered an extrapolation of the childhood creations.

@brosmind