Tania Font

May 28, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture

Tania Font is a versatile artist trained in painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, and jewellery. Her diverse skills have led her to work on theatre and television scenography and collaborate with biologist Ramon López on hyper-realist scientific sculptures for museums.

Font’s art profoundly explores the human figure, focusing on women. Her work delves deep into the construction and deconstruction of feminine identity, offering a unique perspective on women's complex relationship with language, a relationship often marked by a long history of silence. This depth of exploration sets her work apart and makes it so significant in the contemporary art scene.

Font creates impactful art pieces reflecting society and culture, standing out in today's art scene. Her work speaks to diverse stories and delves into the complexity of human life.

@taniafont

Sven-Julien Kanclerski Art

March 12, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Art, Germany, Portfolios, Sculpture

Sven-Julien Kanclerski creates sculptures and installations that offer a fresh perspective on familiar cultural motifs, inviting the observer to rediscover them. His creations, characterised by hybridised forms from everyday commercial items, straddle the line between the recognisable and the uncanny. His ordinary and extraordinary balance captivates viewers emotionally.

Kanclerski’s works use fragmented elements, subtle components, and lingering traces instead of perfect aesthetics to achieve their impact. The pleasure of recognising the familiar undergoes a metamorphosis, evolving into a profound joy of rediscovery.

SJK intentionally integrates commodity fetishism into his art through scaling, hybridisation, and refined material. While certain pieces may suggest practical functionality, this illusion is not a testament to their utility but to the enchantment inherent in mass-produced forms.

En Iwamura

September 27, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Japan

En Iwamura's artistic exploration centres on transforming viewers' spatial experiences through site-responsive installations, drawing inspiration from the Japanese philosophy of "Ma." This philosophy, encompassing elements like distance, moments, and relationships, is a guiding principle in his work. Iwamura's installations allow viewers to engage with and discover their sense of "Ma" within the space.

In addition to installations, Iwamura creates ceramic characters infused with humour and serenity, inspired by the concept of "Ma”, which imbues tangible energy and emotions into his creations. These characters often feature repeated lines reminiscent of Zen Buddhist garden patterns.

He is an artist who enjoys exploring different styles and materials, such as ceramics. He likes experimenting with different colours and textures, sometimes mixing them by hand. He finds inspiration from various artists, including Ken Price, Katharina Fritsch, and Ugo Rondinone.

Iwamura sees ceramics as a universal cultural language, skillfully blending influences from Japanese traditional craft with a willingness to break conventions by infusing history with pop culture. He reimagines ceramics as a dynamic and evolving art form through his playful and skilful approach.

en-iwamura.com

Pebble Artist Justin Bateman

November 29, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture

Southeast Asia-based British environmental artist Justin Bateman creates outstanding artworks by using only pebbles found on beaches. Please read the full Forbes interview on how he went from classic British art education to finding his own inspiration on the faraway beaches

www.justinbateman.org

Matteo Ingrao Sculpture

December 09, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Belgium, Portfolios, Sculpture

@matteoingrao

Matteo is a creator of hirsute and peculiar human-like sculptures that falls out of uncanny valley. He draws inspiration from man’s wild, natural, and primitive origins, how isolation affects form, and musings on alternate human evolution and deformation (hypertrichosis syndrome, for instance, is a recurring theme in his work). His organic and realistic sculptures act to capture specific points in time, encapsulating specific glimpses of the human form and so preserving them in time and space.

He provides new perspectives on the human body, aiming to challenge his audience, provoking discourse through the creation of contradictory feelings: his works induce an ambivalent desire to touch while simultaneously stirring discomfort and aversion.

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Reinterpretations 2021 by Grif

November 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art, Sculpture, USA

The award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist and director Shane Griffin, aka Grif. shares his lates NFT project dropped on Shoyu Platform

Classical sculptures becomes reinterpreted as a four dimensional form. The audience is presented with a shifting perspective of the sculpture, mirroring the conflicting perspectives of our own history and religions, both of which are become distorted through time. It draws a parallel between our history and current political landscapes, where it has become harder than ever to decipher truth from bias, with two realities presented at any given time.

The works each progressively fracture into fragments of the initial mold, creating a complex and impossible interpenetrating form, they shift back and forth before regressively returning to the start, the loop continues endlessly. The sculptures are to be enjoying in the static, moving, and 3D dimensional form, owners of the NFT's will receive an animated sculpture for their Metaverse galleries.

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Daniel Martin art

November 12, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Netherlands, Portfolios, Sculpture

@daniel_martin_art

Daniel lives and works in Leiden, The Netherlands. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In his current work he searches for the transmutational properties of matter. The portraits and sculptures do not have a definite form and posses different realities on how they can be perceived. In order to come to new forms Daniel cuts up paintings, finds things on the street and uses creations made by others. The loose elements from these endeavours are used as disjointed brushstrokes that are reassembled in coherent shapes again, creating an object which holds no truth in shape.

From Left, Caroline Achaintre, Om Nom Ore, 2015, Todo Custo, 2015, Mother George, 2015, BAS8 Leeds Art Gallery, Photo Jonty Wilde.jpg

Paper-cut corals by Rogan Brown

November 05, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Sculpture

@rogan_brown_

“Artist Rogan Brown introduces his intricate cut-out paper ‘coral garden’, following his previous series that emphasised the mesmerising diversity of the coral realm. In his previous sculptures, the artist sought to capture the durable yet fragile silhouette of the corals, which is a symbol of the overwhelming impacts of global warming and man-made destruction.” via designboom

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‘Coral Garden’ is part of an ongoing series displayed at Galerie Bettina in Paris, as a contemplative journey to the heart of nature. “The reefs are a potent symbol of the planet itself: teeming with life and colour and biodiversity and yet threatened with extinction because of our inability to control our own appetites and to accept the consequences of our own actions.”

The Word Search Series by Graham Kelman

August 26, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, USA

@grahamkelman

The Word Search Series by artist Graham Kelman investigates concepts of contradiction and loss of meaning through the use of a single sculpture made from many individual sculptures. Each viewer is invited to excavate the hidden poem(s).

The artwork is designed to evolve into new works, where each glyph module moves on a system of hidden rails. New poems are composed on a regular basis.

“n 2017, I had the idea to create a modular artwork composed of smaller sculptures that could be rearranged to create new pieces. Working with @jennyholzerstudio influenced me to do something a little more direct, thinking about the alphabet as a kit of parts. I’ve been interested in the intersection of Graphic Design and Architecture, and this project was a good opportunity to explore that.

Little did I know that it would take me almost four years to complete the series. This is the first work I completed this year.

Something else was happening during this time. It seemed like words in culture were increasingly losing their power to convey a common meaning. Two different people could read the same thing and draw wildly different conclusions, almost predictably, based on their pre-affiliated tribe.

Perhaps, I could create a series of word-search puzzles that could celebrate misinterpretation, contradiction, and loss of meaning, where everybody could draw their own conclusion and choose something they could be upset about, together. I wanted it to appear beautiful and almost decorative at first, and really force people to dig out the little depressing poems inside.

Unfortunately, I didn’t really think too deeply about what it would take to conceive, design, and produce 26 custom individual sculptures, fabricated hundreds of times to create a variety of language and meaning. Each letter was a meticulous mini-project.”

— Graham Kelman

Project Space Atlas by Vasilisa Lipatova

August 01, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Russia

Distant, unknown and amazing here and now.

What is “distant”, “unknown” and “amazing” for us, what could you describe in such words? Most often we think this way or talk about two things: about the future and about space.

Same things we can also say about the art objects created by the modern artist and sculptor Vasilisa Lipatova. On the one hand, it is because the artist works with these two themes - “space” and “future” and creates them in her objects. On the other hand, it is because the techniques that the artist develops to create her works cause delight among the audience and great interest among professionals. And, finally, the emotions that the works bring are emotions of joy, surprise and delight, just those that we experience when we come into contact with something “distant”, “unknown” and “amazing".

Let's sort it out in order.
So, “Space" - how can you create art objects in the form of space, in volume?
Sculpt round planets and hang them from the ceiling?
Or cut it out of some material and put it on a pedestal?
Perhaps this would be the most obvious option, but as we said above - the artist likes to invent and develop her own techniques for creating art objects. The main technique in which all the interior art objects of the artist are created is called “manual 3D printing". This is a meticulous and delicate work with molten plastic thread, which allows you to “weave” three-dimensional aerial art objects almost literally in the air. And also to create flat canvases with three-dimensional elements on their surface - literally to imprint space in space and material.

It was exactly these artworks that made the artist famous and exactly these works caused such delight and such surprise among the audience.

And it was thanks to the development of this technique that the artist began to create both exhibition objects that are included in museum collections (for example, one of the artist's works was included in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery) and small interior canvases that literally anyone can buy and hang at home, and thus not only touch art, but literally become involved in the international project of the artist “Space Atlas".

And also to make a profitable investment - every year the merits of the artist are literally growing before our eyes, and at the same time the works themselves are becoming more expensive.

Moreover, it is worth noting that the artist has entered the world art market and her international career only adds “advantages” to the main achievements.

It’s just enough to google “Vasilisa Lipatova” to see how many publications the artist has in different media.

Or you also can read her CV and see her participation and victory in international and All-Russian competitions, diplomas with first places from different years, as well as international exhibitions of such a level as the Biennale.

Separately, it is worth talking about royalties, the artist's works created specifically for a large circle of connoisseurs start from $ 100 - $ 300, this is done specifically so that a large number of people can easily afford to buy the artist's works. But at the same time, her royalties for the development of projects start from $ 5,000 and often $ 10,000, which significantly exceeds the average market prices, where the artist is often offered to develop a project for $ 1,000 - $ 500 dollars or even do it for free.

The project “Space Atlas” became for the artist another step in the arena of world fame and demand, in one year it grew from a small town project to an international one, several objects were included in museum collections, and one of the objects received the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Buryatia - the object “Legends of Baikal" became the first public art The object was located in the capital of Buryatia, the city of Ulan - Ude and immediately entered the collection of the most prestigious museum of the Republic - the TS Sampilov National Museum.

We will continue to observe the dizzying career of the artist, and we will continue to keep you informed about her new takeoffs and Space projects.

Wooden sculpture by Peter Demetz

July 20, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Italy, Portfolios, Sculpture

@peterdemetz

Italian sculptor Peter Demetz masterfully creates life-sized of wooden scenes that challenge the spectator’s perception with their spatial unfolding and seduce with their illusion as well as with their photographic quality of represented world

“The works of Demetz seem to be still frames of a serial, which needs to be discovered and of which the artist anticipates only some clues; not recognizable stories, but attitudes, something in a potential state, which attends to be resolved into a narrative.”

— Valerio Dehò

Sea Plants by Mariko Kusumoto

July 12, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Japan, Portfolios, Sculpture

@marikokusumoto

“From polyester, nylon, and cotton, Japanese artist and designer Mariko Kusumoto fabricates sculptural forms that resemble the creatures and everyday objects she finds most fascinating. She uses a proprietary heat-setting technique to mold the ubiquitous materials into undulating ripples, honeycomb poufs, and even tiny schools of fish that are presented in elegant and fanciful contexts. Whether a pastel coral reef or a fantastical bracelet filled with mushrooms, rosettes, and minuscule bicycles, Kusumoto’s body of work, which includes standalone objects and wearables, uses the ethereal qualities of the translucent fibers to make even the banalest forms appear like they’re part of a dream.” - via @Colossal

Nathaniel Rackowe

July 09, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, United Kingdom

@rackowe

@mtartagency

MTArt Agency is extremely proud to announce that British visual artist Nathaniel Rackowe, world-renowned by his large-scale urban referenced structures and light sculptures, is now an MTArt Agency signed artist.

Rackowe’s work is designed to recreate the experience of navigating the city around us. His works are abstracted impressions of today's metropolitan experience evoked through the vicissitudes of light as it fluctuates throughout the city. Influenced by Modernism, film and video games, Rackowe uses the mass-manufactured derivative products of the modernist era - glass, corrugated plastics, concrete, scaffolding, breeze blocks and strip lights - to recreate the collective experience and visual sensations of urban contemporary life, while incorporating a deeply personal emotional response to flowing through built space.

The second semester of 2021 is lined up with exciting projects for Rackowe: used to working in the public sphere, the artist has a new commission for the Canary Wharf outdoor sculpture exhibition with Brooke Bennington, “On the Other Hand”, from the 26th of August to the 12th of November 2021. The show will explore notions of revival and value, bringing together a group of contemporary sculptors who incorporate - or use as their starting point - found and human-made objects.

Later in the year, Nathaniel will exhibit new works with FOLD Gallery, the London-based gallery bringing UK based and international artists together. Also this year, the Art Design Lebanon will include one of Rackowe’s works for a group show in Beirut. And in November from the 10th to the 14th, the Lichtfestival Gent will include an outdoor light installation from the new MTArt Agency artist.

“It’s really exciting to be joining the MTArt Agency roster of artists. Marine and her team have a unique approach to supporting and growing the artist, while finding wide ranging ways to bring their work to the public eye. The breath of their engagement perfectly meshes with my diverse art practice, with so many fascinating ideas for where this new collaboration may lead.”

— Nathaniel Rackowe

Rackowe’s public art projects are completely aligned with MTArt Agency’s vision for the public sphere which is working towards providing everyone with access to art whilst investing in local communities and allowing artists to broadcast their artistic stories to inspire as many people as possible. Nathaniel Rackowe is part of a new breed of established artists (like Robert Montgomery, Walter and Zoniel, among others) who believe in the agency’s values and efforts to change the industry, and were attracted by our recent growth - as highlighted in this article on The Art Newspaper.

“What a dream to bring Nathaniel Rackowe on board, for the past twenty years he has proven that conceptual art could be integrated into the public realm. Bringing artists with this level of credibility is a dream come true for me as a founder”

— Marine Tanguy, MTArt Agency

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Jam Sutton

May 17, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Sculpture, NFT Art, Portfolios, Digital Art

@jamsutton

Jam Sutton is a British artist exploring the space between technology and antiquity. Utilising 3d scanning, augmented reality, 3d printing and AI, Jam creates sculptures exploring identity and representations of the body in our digital age.

Starring into the Abyss

Fragmented frieze (Staring into the Abyss), 2020

Jam Sutton welcomes virtual visitors to ‘Staring into the Abyss’, a show featuring new artworks created in 2020. Displayed in an augmented reality installation, the show is accessible to the public in any location.

Bitten by the decorated statues, there was nothing glistening as temples do, there was chaos, 2020

Jam Suttons’ work explores technology, the human body, figures under tension, struggle and identity through sculpture and digital composites. The new work captures the human body through frantic, chaotic, isolated, fragmented, strong and fragile sensibilities. The exhibition title reflects times of uncertainty and turbulence, facing the unknown.

Through Constant Decay

‘Through Constant Decay’ augmented reality installation featuring 11 new AR sculptures. The sculptures will be released as NFTs on @niftygateway with @ivgalleryla this week

Jam Sutton NFT

Anastassia Zamaraeva ceramics

March 24, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Canada, Portfolios, Sculpture, United Kingdom

@a_zama_ceramics

Canada-raised Manchester-based artist Anastassia Zamaraeva has been into clay sculpture since her childhood and even changing the profession to architect does not make an effect as she got back to turntable

Katsuyo Aoki Ceramic Sculpture

March 11, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Japan, Sculpture, Portfolios

@katsuyo_aoki

Katsuyo Aoki is best known for her ceramic sculptures that apply delicate, swirling forms to dark subject matter. Aoki trained first as a painter before taking up ceramic as her primary medium, though she sometimes creates abstracted images on her ceramic surfaces using glazes in monochromatic palettes.

Aoki is best known for her works in relief or in the round, and an ornate style that draws from a range of decorative styles. Her works often look radically different from varying perspectives. Frequently used motifs and forms include the skull, the crown, and dismembered parts of animals—allusions to historic narratives and mythologies.

Soft Sculpture by Sergio Roger

March 01, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain

@sergioroger

Sergio Roger’s work is born from his constant search for inspiration in the ancient artistic representations of beauty. The artist reinterprets iconic elements of art history and decorative arts to break away with preconceived ideas by creating unique and elaborated textile sculptures.

Each of Sergio Roger’s works is Unique and is created from antique fabric remnants. The artist himself carefully selects these materials from antique collector stores. He chooses fabrics such as old linens and velvets, which carry the passing of time and bring soul to the work. For example, in his series of linen busts, he brings a new vision on this subject by replacing stone or marble with delicate pieces of antique linen. With this gesture, the artist wants to reflect on the idea of permanence and majesty that we associate with this traditional art form.

VENUS VICTRIX HODIE by Marco Battaglini

January 26, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Italy

@battaglini_art

Artist Marco Battaglini known for juxtaposing graffiti and classic art released a full-body sculpture of The New Contemporary Venus “VENUS VICTRIX HODIE” in collaboration with Kylie Jenner

“In coherence with the same artistic theme that I have been developing, I wanted to show the contrast of aesthetic ideals, how the concept of beauty has changed and shaped society.
As always I enjoy playing the game representing the contrast between the classical ideals of beauty and the contemporary ‘anti-aesthetic’ of the world of urban hip-hop and graffiti culture.”

— Marco Battaglini

Tung Ming-Chin Wooden Sculpture

January 13, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Taiwan

“"Sculptor Tung Ming-Chin carves wood into figurative shapes that seem to press against the surface of the finished work. In “Inner Turmoil” a face and hands are trapped inside a hunk of wood that has the smooth, stretched appearance of fabric, and in “Breath”, the rounded spine and feet of a crouched figure expand outside the confines of a stiff white box. Tung was born in Changhua, Taiwan, and received both his BFA and MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts.”

Art of Anders Krisár

December 29, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Sweden, Sculpture

@anderskrisarstudio

The subject of numerous museum shows, Anders Krisár’s work, often focuses on the human body. Krisár’s sculptures often features or makes reference to the human form, exhibiting a preoccupation with formal rigor and abstraction. Using this exacting approach, he employs precision of form to create intensely personal, psychological landscapes. Krisár’s sculptures – immaculately produced, and often bear a deliberate blemish that is itself impeccably rendered – are discomfiting, objects of simultaneous horror and beauty

The sculptures are uncanny because of the meticulousness with which they are executed; according to Krisár, “I’m a perfectionist because I have to be, it’s not really a choice. And it’s not a striving for satisfaction, it’s rather to avoid pain.”