Tarik Mikou is a 32 year old graphic designer and photographer from Montreal. By using different mediums he is working on prints, movies and album covers etc. Represented below a series of prints called "Be A Kid Again" pays tribute to some of the biggest names in pop culture from the early 20th century.
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.
Incredible wood sculptures by Italian artist Gehard Demetz. The inspiration behind the art, translated from the artists words:
"They were children of 6-7 years of age.. Rudolf Steiner says that until an age of 6-7 years, that children can feel/hear in their unconscious the experiences of their ancestors. I have always been fascinated by this sort of thing, especially when thinking of my own childhood. The children in my sculptures realize this gift knowing that, when they become adults, they lose the ability to contact this unconscious, but to gain the advantages of being an adult."
It takes not less than 300 photo shots to create one piece of his art but the result is amazing. Digital technologies invade even such traditional areas as sculpture. Gwon Osang, a sculptor from Korea, makes his sculptures with the help of pixels. Even though those pixels are quiet big the contrast makes his works unforgettable and different.
In the works by Guo Wei, an artist from China, we can see a beautiful representation of interaction between teenagers. Guo Wei pays mush attention to postures and gestures of young people in his painting in order to show the viewer the game of the interrelationships. Humor and satire of natural children's emotions is brightly represented in the his works taking us to our own careless years of childhood.
The art of performance photography investigates new directions, surfaces and spheres. This time Dustin Humphrey goes to the bottom of the ocean with his crew to create an illusion of life under the water while surfers are catching their waves. Being originally from California, Dustin now calls Bali as his home. Wherever you have an inspiration, we hope to see more of your challenging our imagination photos.
Julie Rrap is one of the most prominent artists from Australia who had her biggest exhibition been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2007. The attention of the artist is mainly focused on the human body and its representation in sculptures. Some of her previous works are quiet provocative though not lacking in artistic perfection.
In an era when visual images are styled to perfection using technology, Lucy McLauchlan crafts using permanent materials like Indian ink and marker pen. “If I make a mistake I can’t remove it; often though, the accidental details become my favorite,” she says of this ambitious, but inevitably rewarding, process. (via LAZ.inc)
While we are assured that in China everybody thinks in the same direction since their childhood Li Wei proves us to be wrong. He breaks all stereotypes not only about contemporary art in this far east country, but also about the possibilities of the camera. Li Wei states that there is absolutely no montage applied towards his works. But it's hard to believe. Though it is easy to enjoy.
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