Kevin Ledo, an artist living in Montreal, Canada is a mixer of media and styles. In his recent work “The Guiding Light” he managed to bring together two absolutely opposite definitions such as fashion and religion. By focusing on the outer beauty of the models Kevin puts on the background saints' halos thus emphasizing the contrast between the real world and what we see on the covers of the magazines.
An artist from Argentine Tomás Saraceno engages architecture, science and art into his new site-specific exhibit "14 Billion" that scales a Black Widow's web up to magnificent proportions. Once been showed at the 2009 Venice Biennale called "Galaxy Forming along Filaments, Tomás explores magnificent attributes of spider's webs and nets that make reference to the origin and structure of the universe.
Alexandros Vasmoulakis been born in Athens in 1980 got tp love painting pretty early from his childhood. By the time he has graduated from the Institute of Arts with honors and lived in Paris a couple of years his style got its own shape. Now besides painting and installations, Alexandros decorates walls of his native city with something but not a graffiti.
Juan Troncoso, a photographer from Argentina, experiments with water, people, landscapes, finding his inspiration probably in the limitless "aguas del Buenos Aires".
Video art grabs more and more attention these days. And even though it might sound pretty simple and obvious, video art has so many different variations and aspects that it will never stop surprising you. One of them is brightly represented by Nosaj Thing who started as a composer of music for computer games in his early years having grown into well known musician and artist from L.A.
You probably remember those "hi-tech memory storage devices" we had just a decade ago. Now they look clumsy and awkward for us, while Nick Gentry managed to use them as a relief canvas for his paintings giving his works a scent of digital era admixed with the gentle touch of brush strokes. Having graduated from London College Art Nick pays much attention to the contents of diskettes as, according to him, it is vitally important that those disks had their own lives and stories.
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