Radhiah Anis
Singapore - based illustrator Radhiah Anis shares her latest works
#AntiSocialDistancing 2020 by Gabriel Silva
Artist Gabriel Silva shares his visual thoughts on the current world situation: #AntiSocialDistancing artworks series is “an exploration about the feeling of loneliness and isolation in this moment of crisis, where a mere glance in your direction is considered an offensive act. This feeling of seclusion and rejection towards others has led us to the point that we are now as a society. How do you feel when the painting rejects you?”
Malaria
Malaria is a short film that depicts the downfall of an ordinary hard-working US citizen, who loses his job, is bitten by a mosquito, and descends into a fever and sickness. While being ignored by those surrounding him and finding himself in the darkest of places, this citizen's journey ultimately leads to him with no other option than to live in the streets - houseless.
Written and Directed by
Andzej Gavriss
Three Pills dir. Christian Wenger
The idea to Three Pills was born during last summer, when director Christina Wenger and his 74 year old mother had this grotesque vision of doing a film that would show how our overpopulated and ageing world could look like in 2050. They wanted to make a subtle science fiction short film, that gets under your skin while feeling present and real. It should captivate with strong visuals and story rather than try to impress with effects. But ultimately, they wanted to create nostalgic timeless experience that reaches people in a digital connected world.
AWAY
A short film about the emotional trauma that accompanies a near death experience. When you can’t tell the difference between dream and reality you start to feel you’re sinking into your mind, unable to breath.
Directed and edited by - Patrick Mattes
Starring - Nika Burnett
Cinematographer - Christian Klein
Sian Fan “Deathless”
"Female Lenses for Art Activism" virtual show by MIA ╳ MTArt Agency
MIA x MTArt Agency Presents Female Lenses for Art Activism
Female-identifying artists everywhere face countless challenges in and out of the art world. MIA Collection’s mission has been to increase the visibility of female artists everywhere. Our founder, Alejandra Castro Rioseco, has made it our defining characteristic to exclusively collect and promote the work of female artists. To help artists we have launched an online museum, MIA Anywhere. After only 10 weeks running, we have featured the work of female artists from Iran to Hong-Kong, Brazil to Spain.
Elisa Insua, One Dollar Bill, 2014
MIA Art Collection and MTArt Agency have curated Female Lenses for Art Activism, where 7 artists from MTArt Agency will be exhibiting. While the range of themes of Female Lenses for Art Activism reaches far and wide, the artists intersect in their multi-layered and multi-faceted artistic practice. The artists on show deal with pressing issues and offer a female lens with which to view these. Consciousness, ancestry, sustainability, mental health, technology, and energies are some of the topics the artists tackle. But while their topics hardly intersect, their savvy artistic skill does. All these women show their work in unique multi-disciplinary ways that combine and remix forms to create work that demands to be seen. The urgency of their work urges us to see these artists as activists, for they are both pushing forth their female lenses with pride while also tackling pressing issues we must acknowledge and observe in our contemporary society.
Andrea Tyrimos, Hold my hand, 2016
Founded in 2015, MTArt Agency is a certified B Corp® award-winning agency for the most exciting up and coming visual artists worldwide. Every month, the agency reviews 200 portfolios of artists. Its selection committee chooses artists with innovative techniques, inspiring content and strong messaging. For the artists who sign with the agency, MTArt covers their studio costs, sells their works, implements cultural & commercial partnerships and offers press exposure. This is how it accelerates their artistic reputation, visibility and success.
Enter Virtual Exhibition
Artists: Delphine Diallo (@delphinediallo), Andrea Tyrimos (@andrea_tyrimos), Lauren Baker (@laurenbakerart), Claire Luxton (@claireluxtonstudio), Elisa Insua (@elisainsua), Sian Fan (@sianfan), Sadie Clayton (@iamsadieclayton)
Featured Artists
Curated by
MIA Art Collection
Absence dir. Arnaldo Iñigo
A haunting audio-visual exploration of love and mourning by director Arnaldo Iñigo. Inspired by the life of Iñigo’s grandmother, who lost 2 children in separate tragic accidents, “Absence” is set to two tracks — “Flesh and Bone” by Black Math and Luke Atencio’s “A ghost,” featuring spoken word by Tom O’Bedlam. As Iñigo explains, the film is a presentation of grief as a process of reflection and acceptance, chronicling the need to reconcile with the purpose of life:
“There’s nothing more tragic than the sudden death of a child, an event that causes bereft, heartbreak and a disruption in the natural law and order of life. This reversed order places the human mind in extreme sorrow as it carries the loss of innocence, the death of the most vulnerable and dependent, it signifies the loss of future, of hopes and dreams, of new strength.”
Directed by Arnaldo Iñigo
Produced by Cineburó
Executive Produced by - Arnaldo Iñigo & Gabriel Stavenhagen
Director of Photography - Matías Penachino
Production Design - Luis Rojas Luino
Myth-Making virtual group exhibition at HOFA
HOFA Gallery announces it will feature 9 global contemporary artists in the upcoming virtual group exhibition titled ‘Myth-Making’, which will launch on 10 June 2020. The virtual exhibition, set to run for 5 weeks until 16 July, will showcase select works by emerging and celebrated contemporary mixed-media artists: Florian Eymann, Dean Fox, Fabio Viale, Darian Mederos, Ilhwa Kim, Zhuang Hong Yi, Joel Rea, Romina Ressia and Wang Ziling. 'Myth-Making' will be an immersive visual art experience where viewers will explore constructed realities of exhibited artworks in which mythic icons are deftly referenced, deconstructed, and reimagined.
In a time of great and far reaching disruption, HOFA's carefully curated exhibition acknowledges the role myths play as tools for understanding and navigating reality. Through this acknowledgment, 'Myth-Making' invites introspection about accepted notions of temporal and spatial fixedness, and their influence on the meanings of iconic symbolisms. The artists featured in this exhibition are masters at staging the layers of contradiction, incongruity and spatio-temporal perspectives that instigate the meaning- and narrative-making processes by which myths come to be.
United by their layering of artistic techniques and historical tropes, Dean Fox, Fabio Viale, Florian Eymann, and Romina Ressia reinvent classical iconography for the contemporary while also challenging existing social norms. Eymann and Fox haunt the psyche with their reductive and distorted renditions of classical art, while Viale and Ressia, through starkly contrasting historical tropes and mediums, challenge the socio-normative narratives of our time.
For their part, Ilhwa Kim, Zhuang Hong Yi and Wang Ziling employ cultural mediums in novel ways that wield their deep cultural symbolisms as instruments and subtexts for explorations in contemporary reality. Hong Yi sculpts traditional Chinese xuan paper into elaborate, colour-laden flowerbeds that lead viewers to both marvel at the beauty of nature and question humanity's fraught relation to it. For Kim, it is with traditional Korean Hanji paper, painstakingly rolled and dyed, that she conjures multi-dimensional seed universes that awaken the senses to the narrative dynamics of spatio-temporal perspective. Rounding out this cohort is Ziling who brings a sculptural dimension to traditional Asian landscape paintings with an innovative, boundary-defying technique that leads the eyes on a spatial and narrative transition.
Hyperrealism, surrealism, and abstraction make a strong appearance in the 'Myth-Making' exhibition through the works of Joel Rea and Darian Mederos. Both artists excel at layering perspective plays on reality. Joel Rea weaves hyperrealism with surrealism in ways that inevitably turn the viewers gaze inwards to emotions of foreboding and vulnerability, while Darian Mederos melds hyperrealism and abstraction, stirring up unsettling feelings as realities seemingly take turns at blending out of sight as others emerge into the fore.
'Myth-Making' exhibition will be accessible via a secure link on the HOFA website
on Wednesday 10 June – Thursday 16 July 2020
FEATURED ARTISTS
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Ferment la bouche by Idea Dolls
Creative studio Idea Dolls shares their latest design product case of fermented sauces made by ancient technology. Ferment la bouche was born out of a desire to merge two mega trends which dominate food and beverage in the UK. The first - live food, fermented is everywhere, from kombucha to kimchi of all flavours and varieties. The second is the demand for exotic sauces.
“Our design for the range was inspired by a ‘through the microscope’ concept, a peek into the
unseen world of gut-loving good bacterium, showcasing the sense of movement in the
alchemical-like fermentation process - bubbling, morphing, changing and moving to turn a raw
ingredient into wonderful good-for-your tangy on the tongue fermented sauce.
We wanted to move away from leveraging the middle eastern heritage of the brand which would
have detracted from the fermented concept, overshadowing it and labeling it as ‘world food’.
Amba is well known in the Middle East and India (where it is more of a chutney). To position this
range as something new and different, and in order to allow us to scale up, adding new flavour
SKUs or even new ranges, we had to move away from Amba and create a completely new
brand concept.”
FIVE by Sebastian Helene
'Five' is a colourful typographic romp through the five senses. The experimental and playful animation of freelance 3D artist and motion designer Sebastian Helene combines with characterful and quirky sound design by London based studio Resonate.
When coming up with the concept for Five Sebastian wanted to work with limitation to come up with fresh new ideas. By only allowing himself to work with letters from the five senses to come up with ideas it sparked some unexpected but exciting results.
