Campaign visuals created by Louise Mertens for the Renaissance collection of Amouage is currently resented at Harrods London.
The artworks are inspired by the natural shapes and elements of the beautiful nature & landscapes in Oman, all characterized by their colors and textures.
Creative direction + visuals: studio Louise Mertens
Production: Bounce Rocks
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The artwork “When the drape falls” made by Grégoire A. Meyer for our @Digital.Decade SE 2020 virtual show brought him a lot of attention through Instagram influencers. It logically made him as a winner of The Global Art Award 2020 in Digital Art section.
The concept behind this work was triggered by Digital Decade 2020 theme where artists were asked to reflect on the global shifts we are living through.
“The horse represents our last hope and challenges the concept of black as darkness and as the drapes slips off with its own weight - the future of humanity will be exposed..”
Athens-based Mellow Studio was asked to create a Tvc in order to present IIEK SVIE and their educational program. The exact brief was to "create a mini saga". Studio went for a collage style that help them combine photos along with 2d graphics in a fast cut pace. This helped to deliver a fresh and fast mini saga.
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts National Center for Contemporary Art with the support of the Fund of the Supporting of Innovations and Youth Initiatives in St. Petersburg
The North-West branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (NCCA in Saint Petersburg) with the support of the "Fund to Supporting Innovation and Youth Initiatives in St. Petersburg" is pleased to announce the dates of the 2nd Curatorial Forum. From November 16 to 30 the 2nd Curatorial Forum will be held in Saint Petersburg.
The Forum brings together leading institutional and independent curators, gallerists and art managers. This international event will feature discussions and presentations on current curatorial practices as well as the first Art Weekend in Russia. During the Art Weekend galleries, art spaces and workshops of artists will open up to a wider audience for an “open day”.
In 2020, the forum turns to educational practices in museums and other cultural institutions such as museum pedagogy and art mediation. Additionally, the forum will pay attention to more general issues related to the production of knowledge in the sphere of contemporary culture.
The main program this year includes: an online project Symposium* on the topic "Educational U-turn. Who Else Produces Knowledge in Culture?" Art Weekend and special projects which are: take-away exhibition "Zine as Exhibition: Postcovid", Studio Studies project including 20 video interviews with St. Petersburg artists in their workshops, and an internship program for university students of Saint Petersburg.
Here he transitions from hyper-realist portraits to more narrative oil paintings centred on 'woman' as the sole subject. Close-up portraits often obscured by a signature bubble wrap layer give way to more elaborate scenes in which the artist captures what he describes as the ultimate beauty epitomised in the female form.
Mederos employs his distinctive layering and hyperrealist painting techniques in ways that provide a foundation for his new, more narrative works, allowing him to capture intimate scenes in the lives of the subject. The outcome is a series of captivating homages to natural beauty of the female form as encountered, perhaps unexpectedly, in moments of heightened vulnerability and sensuality. The artist's iconographic bubble wrap facade also takes on new meaning as a protection or veil, alluding further to the vulnerability of the female subject and the viewer's yet undefined role as a momentary witness to the scene.
Through this body of work Mederos seeks to reject the western beauty standards by honouring diversity and female empowerment. The paintings reveal perfection within the imperfections and beauty within strangeness.
“As a painter, I always strive for perfection. But perfection and beauty do not go hand-in-hand. Beauty is not limited. Beauty has no linear shape...”
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Future Lions, AKQA's annual global competition to unearth the next generation of creative talent, is now open for entries.
This year's Future Lions theme is a call to action for young people aged 18 - 25 to showcase how creativity is an essential skillset to 'Rebuild The World.' Young people are encouraged to use the power of imagination and technology to create a campaign, product, or solution that will help shape the future.
Celebrating its 15th year of the competition, AKQA is proud to announce Lego Group and WIRED as official partners for Future Lions 2021.
AKQA Chief Creative Officer Peter Lund said: "Future Lions was born from a belief that the future ultimately belongs to the next generation of thinkers. For them to have a real impact through their ideas, we had to evolve the role of the competition to be anchored in the real world. We couldn't imagine a better partner than the LEGO Group to spearhead this next chapter of the Future Lions legacy.'"
Future Lions started the careers of many of today's creative leaders. Last year saw over 440 schools across 71 countries taking part in the competition.
Each year, the school with the most shortlisted entries wins Future Lions' School of the Year' trophy. Previous winners include Berghs (Sweden) and Miami Ad School.
Due to the current global situation, the brief will be open until 1st April 2021. Four winning teams will pitch their ideas live to an expert creative jury in Summer 2021, which includes the LEGO Group Global Chief Marketing Officer & EVP Julia Goldin, the LEGO Agency Global Head and SVP Remi Marcelli, Wired Magazine, and hosted by AKQA Chief Creative Officer, Peter Lund.
In a first for the competition, one of the four winners will be crowned grand prix. The team will then work with the LEGO Group and AKQA to create the idea. Each of the teams will be honoured with a prestigious Future Lions trophy.
The LEGO Group's Chief Marketing Officer, Julia Goldin, said: "At the LEGO Group we are committed to develop and inspire the builders of tomorrow. LEGO bricks provide endless possibilities for creativity, imagination and fun, whilst helping to develop skills like creative problem solving and collaboration. We are delighted to partner with AKQA on this year's Future Lions competition to challenge and inspire future creative leaders to produce innovative ideas to 'rebuild the world'."
Josh Rowell “Toxic Relationship”, 2020
NEON Gallery are débuting their London exhibition titled 'KINESIS' on 24 September 2020. The 7-day exhibition is a curation of selected works by established and emerging contemporary artists who share a desire to change perceptions of artistic expression and mediums while also delivering potent critiques of the status quo through their works.
In creating the show, the duo at the helm of NEON, Dr. Dimitrios Tsivrikos and Christopher Shake, drew inspiration from the dynamic between motion and stimulus inherent in the very idea of kinesis. The show sets out to explore the concept of “a movement” – literal, figurative and metaphorical – as reflected in artworks that variously engage socially poignant concepts.
The exhibition also has an aspirational outlook outlined by the dynamic of kinesis. As NEON Director, Christopher Shake, articulates, "This exhibition is also about hope and fortitude. It reflects our hope that collectively, we can embrace the core principle of 'KINESIS', the idea of a movement, for us a forward-seeking movement, in response to external and internal influences, by drawing upon these uncertain times as a catalyst to launch innovative ways of experiencing and interacting with the arts and our community as a whole."
Gallery: NEON Gallery Address: Koppel Project Exhibition Space, 47 – 50 Poland Street, London, W1F 7ND, UK. Exhibition Dates: 24 - 30 September, 2020.
Private Press Previews: Thursday 24 September 12 – 3pm (by appointment only). Opening Night: Thursday 24 September 6pm – 9pm (strictly RSVP).
Piers Alsop - @piersalsop
Rachel Libeskind - @rachellibeskind
Gary Komarin - @garykomarin
Josh Rowell - @joshrowell1
Svetlana Bogatcheva - @svetlana_bogatcheva
Aubrey Higgin - @aubreyhiggin_art
MTArt Agency embraces the new normal and invites Londoners to explore the essence of Gerard Richter’s topical quote ‘art is highest form hope’. Londoners will be able to (re)discover hope-infused art pieces offline via the exhibition HOPE between the 12th and the 13th of September on 42 South Molton Street, W1, in a beautiful exhibition space recently launched by adaptative retail space company Sook and online via the launch of the show’s digital catalogue full of beautiful essays. Both the show and the catalogue are curated by art writer Mary Ahearn, featuring the special works from the following exceptional artists Claire Luxton, David Servan Schreiber, Lauren Baker, Saype, Asiko, Amber Vittoria, Andrea Tyrimos, Leo Caillard, Tiffany Bouelle and Delphine Diallo to evoke an aura of inspiration and togetherness in the heart of London
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Whatabout: Future of Brands Conference will take place on September 11-13 and gather creatives from around the globe to reflect on the way digital has transformed our reality and what a brand of the future should be in order to fit in in the new world.
Along with leaders of some of the world’s iconic creative studios, among which are Paula Scher, GMUNK and Eike König, participants will be exploring the impact of ongoing changes and the new type of brand that emerges out of them.
Two days of lectures will be followed by a day of workshops where you will learn and experiment to expand your thinking and imagination. To let you feel the power of the community, there will be Moderated Rooms where you can talk to experts about the magic of the digital world.
A special treat, the AR/VR Exhibition, displays the
works by the speakers and students.
With an outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazilian DJ Alok was forced to pause his touring routine. This pause, of course, extended to the team that accompanied him and with that the Brazilian brothers and film directors Sergio and Gabriel Twardowski, responsible for the audiovisual content of the DJ, chose to wait in the country for the normalisation of the artist's concert schedule race. While for fans of the DJ this is a moment of nostalgia, for a pair of brothers, it was a time to rest from the routine and be able to organise their image files. Then, during this process, they noticed a pattern of positioning both of the photography of the scenes captured by them and of the artist himself on stage, and thus the project "Memories" was born to deal with the nostalgia of the fans and present them with new material.
In it, the brothers Twardowski brothers carried out a research in all the Alok's scenes captured by them during the last years, to print them and perform a stop-motion work. After more than 100 days of work, the duo finally printed more than 650 selected images and finished the project
