Giuseppe Palmisano Photography
Working mainly with nude models Italian photographer Giuseppe Palmisano creates projects that eliminates sexual context and female body objectification leaving the viewer a lot of visual puzzles.
Cristina Burns
Cristina Burns is a photographer and a mixed media artist. Her work is characterised by juxtaposition, where opposing elements such as candies, toys, and flowers are fused to anatomical parts and insects, often blurring the extremely thin lines between fantasy and reality, purity and sin, life and death.
This multiplicity of elements are meticulously arranged to create her surrealistic compositions, then she photographs the assemblage, digitally enhance and prints in a limited number of copies, the resulting print is the only record of the artist's process.
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable: Damien Hirst
"In 2008 the wreck of a treasure ship called the Apistos (meaning “the Unbelievable”) was found on the seabed off east Africa. It sank about 2,000 years ago. Its unique cargo of global artefacts, assembled by a freed slave called Cif Amotan II, have spent two millennia undergoing a “sea change” straight out of Shakespeare’s Tempest, becoming wrapped in coloured corals and bizarre crustacean growths - until the archaeologists who found this sunken marvel asked Hirst to use his millions to help recover it."
"If you believe that, you’ll believe anything. The curators who told this bit of hokum straightfaced at the start of the press view deserve bonuses, if Hirst has not yet bankrupted himself creating this luxury masterpiece. " The Guardian
Photographed by Christoph Gerigk
© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.
The elaborate backstory is slightly undercut by the fact that the fake relics include not just historical references, but the faces of Pharrell, Kate Moss, Rihanna, and Die Antwoord singer YoLandi Visser, not to mention Mickey Mouse.
Sphinx by Damien Hirst. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images
Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS/SIAE 2017.
‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’, April 9-December 3, Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana, Venice; palazzograssi.it
Photographed by Christoph Gerigk
© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.
Skull of a Cyclops and Skull of a Cyclops Examined by a Diver. Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.
Photography from exhibition by Rita Bamburova
Wood Sculpture by Willy Verginer
Italian sculptor Willy Verginer creates figurative sculptures from wood, pieces that allow his carving skills to stand out with minimal additions of monochrome bands of paint.
Verginer’s newest work is included in the group exhibition After Industry at Wasserman Projects in Detroit through April, 8 2017. You can see more of his minimally painted sculptures on his Instagram.
AXIS by Leonardoworx
Italian digital artist Leonardoworx (previously) shares his new venture in creating CG Alphabet "AXIS" inspired by product design from 1970-80s
Quayola: Fragments
bitforms gallery nyc is very pleased to continue its fifteen-year anniversary season with Fragments, Quayola’s second solo show with the gallery.
Born in Rome, Quayola’s practice is deeply affected by the grandeur and decay of ancient sculptures and Renaissance masterpieces that he encountered at an early age. Architectural façades, objects, and artworks that were once new chip, fade, crack, and break over the centuries. While the perception and reception of distressed frescoes or fractured sculptures is fluid, the work itself remains, containing a multitude of temporal narratives. Quayola translates this experience into his sculptures and works on paper and aluminium, which he presents in the exhibition as “simulated archaeological artefacts.”
Laocoön Fragments is a series of sculptures based on the Hellenistic sculpture Laocoön and His Sons. A paramount example of the Pergamene Baroque style, the work was endlessly copied—beginning in Roman times and through the nineteenth century—both as an artistic training device and due to its sheer popularity. Quayola inserts himself into this tradition with a digitally-driven approach. The artist’s software imagines and renders alternative breakages, fragmenting the work into two distinctive styles: representationally accurate sections and geometric abstractions coalesce into new forms. Made with a unique blend of pulverized iron powder mixed with resin, the sculptures are then chemically treated to cause an accelerated patina effect. The geometric sections are polished and waxed to achieve a smooth, newer appearance, while the representational segments appear oxidized and textured. Thus, the visual contrast between the “past” and “present” becomes more pronounced.
Digital Art by Federico Picci
Florence based graphic design student Federico Picci has already gained an interest from creative by achieving a nice results in CG on his latest projects
Leonardoworx
Italian digital artist known as Leonardoworx shares his latest explorations of digital world and environments
Everything is in your Hands
“The terminal part of the human arm located below the forearm, used for grasping and holding and consisting of the wrist, palm, four fingers, and an opposable thumb”
Watch visual experience Directed, shot and edited by Gioacchino Petronicce
Marble District by Francesco Luciani
Being the most fascinating stone during the history, marble has one of the most beautiful and complicated process of mining. Photographer Francesco Luciani spent some time in the most famous marble quarry near Puglia to depict the beauty and the beast of "man vs nature" results.
Ray Oranges illustrations
Colourful illustrations created by Italian designer Ray Oranges using geometric shapes for his eye-catchy atworks
Illustrations of Reno Nogaj
Talented illustrator living in Italy Reno Nogaj shows the best of his illustrations made in limited-colours technique
Cupola Light by Studio AMeBe
“Italian Studio AMeBE pays homage to the stunning architectural beauty of Saint Peter’s Basilica by recreating it as a magnificent lamp. The hanging light fixture focuses its attention on the Vatican City’s iconic dome, using a hyperrealistic approach to craft a striking likeness. Designers Alessandra Mantovani and Eleonora Barbareschi—the duo behind Studio AMeBE—hand painted the ornate and weathered exterior as well as the religious scenes that line the inside. From certain angles, the miniaturized structure could be the real thing.”
Art of Jessica Rimondi
Jessica is an Italian artist studied at the Academia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin and now lives and works in Berlin.
“My work is a challenge to find a paint method that could be sensory, emotional but cruelly true and real at the same time. I take people I know or find and I get inspired from their natural gesture and the sensation that I find in them. I observe what they evoke in me, and I want to transfer this kind of emotional feeling to the people that observe my paintings. I try to find a way to let my figures breath, move, think – but not only in their physical appearance. I don’t want to make a realistic paint, but a real painting, with all the sensation of their action. This is why I start from gesture, because is instinctive, it is pure, it is just a reaction to something external about us. Then I arrive to work on flesh with this caducity or freshness. This is the approach on my artwork, a continuous curiosity in development, life, communication, exchange.”
Marco Oggian
Talented graphic designer and than young nuclear physics Marco Oggian born in Italy and working in Spain as a part of True Color Studio He started to do commercial works in his early ages, Zara bought his work when he was 15, since than Marco never stop dreaming of being big name in design
Tales of Colour
““Made in Italy,” is a label that deserves to be noticed as it consistently stands for impeccable craftsmanship, extreme inventiveness, and subtle yet noticeable sophistication. All three of these titles can easily be bestowed both upon Santoni shoes, the purveyor of fine, hand-made Italian artisanship and the compelling work of storytelling photographer, Simone Bramante, aka @brahmino. No surprise then that the two have joined collaborative forces for Tales of Colours, the new campaign highlighting the mastery, art, and narrative represented within the stitches and fine leather of each handmade Santoni shoe. ”
Scuptures Of Alessandro Boezio
On the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch’s death, Milan-based artist Alessandro Boezio pays homage to the Dutch master through a series of surreal sculptures
“Exploring the intriguing interplay between reality and illusion, Boezio refers to the motifs of Bosch’s paintings, in particular ‘Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony’. Inspired by characters who try to refuse – or not – physical temptations, Boezio created a series of provoking sculptures in various anatomical formations. With some of them referring to the position during the prayer, and the others suggesting alluding to sexual positions, Boezio’s works teeter between the themes of spirituality and temptation.”
People on FB by Giovanna Giuliano
"People on FB" is ongoing illustrative series created by Giovanna depicting the flat facebook emotions in real life. We adore the simple quite serigraphy style of her illustrations. You must check her portfolio in full colours
Surreal Photo Manipulations by Laurent Rosset
Architect and digital artist Laurent Rosset creates sweeping photographic landscapes that seem to curl upward into infinity like an enormous wave that obliterates the sky. Rosset uses much of his own photography to create each image and enjoys discovering how even slight manipulations can vastly change the composition or meaning of a photograph. You can see more of his work on Instagram, and if you liked this also check out Aydin Buyuktas
Velocipedia by Gianluca Gimini
"Back in 2009, Gianluca Gimini picked up an unusual hobby. The Bologna-based Italian-American designer started approaching his friends — and complete strangers — and asking them to draw a bicycle from memory...By 2016, the pile had grown to 376 drawings from a broad array of participants from seven different countries, males and females as young as 3 years and as old as 88. He decided to begin creating highly polished renderings of these sketches, and the results — which you can see on Behance — are equal parts brilliant, hilarious and frightening."
via BBC
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