Brooklyn-based digital artist Peter Favinger takes us on a journey through surreal renders of dreamlike spaces.
Read interview with artist on @trendland
London-based illustrator Charlie Davis creates illustrations looking like a colour paper cut-outs, never dull and always with a dynamic twist
Mathilde Karrèr loves accessories, color, and flowers to create lavish yet subtle compositions with a captivating narrative. Half-way between paintings and movie stills, her photographs are elaborate, visually-rich micro worlds with knowingly chosen details.
Her lighting expertise and the wish to make every image premium, texturised and rich, this is what makes her photography stand out. Many of her works, she develops and styles herself, you can call it a very hands-on way of working.
“The art of painting, in many styles, have subconsciously, a big influence in my work.
Also late 20th century movies, the production and set design, I find very inspiring. I like to approach a project as a director, set designer and problem solver in one.
Certain themes will always re-emerge in my work, a strong connection to the classical still life off course, however I like to experiment, try new things, push my own reference framework”
Talented young artist from Russia - Viktoria Veisbrut went full circle from tattoo art to canvas and further on the street walls. Her visual stories went beyond colourful murals, depicting informational overdose of our days and the needs to sedate ourselves on a daily visual diet
Artist Sebastian Burdon aka Whatshisname is a London-based sculptor mostly known for his “balloon”-like dogs he started doing few years ago as a fun, being fed up with one famous guy. After he was accepted as a raising star he changed the game and started running a series of limited editions for his “POPek” and “PEEPek” “balloon-dogs” and recently released an anthropomorphic version called Jeff Balloonski.
Avalon Nuovo is a Los Angeles-bred illustrator living in Amsterdam, working with editorial, motion, advertising, and publishing, among other applications. Her work draws from influences of music, video games, history, nature, and a love of life drawing. It reflects what is usually on her mind: environmental action, social justice, and trying to find and highlight things that make humanity seem a little more promising.
Michal Zahornacky is professional fine art photographer from Slovakia. The main role in his photography plays the human. He mainly focuses on fine-art and conceptual portraits. He brings thoughts and moods to his photographs which he always shows in unclear imagination.
In his “Close” series, the artists looks into the pandemic world of isolation and the feeling of closeness evoked by forced social distancing. It is captured on the impeccable angles showing the grandeur of photographed buildings – their symmetry and repetitiveness.
Artist Szilard Gaspar practicing professional boxing as well as arts, sculpture and performance
“On a both practical and conceptual level, in my artworks, I always try to express and give artistically shape to the energies that I experience in my life as a sportsman. The artistic result in my artworks comes from accumulated personal experiences and many years of experiments with different art materials, with my body and my mind. Combining art with sport and the specific elements of these two different life styles, shaped my passion for art, which is the most distinct and strong part of my personality. Now, I can express myself more freely since I found my original way of making artworks and performing.”
Russian urban street artist and illustrator Antonia Lev shares her obsession with femininity, nature and freedom through colourful murals and artworks
Berlin-based Laura Breiling illustrates the life in its finest - always actual, diverse and speaking truth aloud. If 2020 is still not an eye-opening year for the viewer, what else can be?
Directed by Hannes Lippert, the Berlin-based contemporary design studio Form & Rausch creating stunning eye-candy dream scapes and spaces
“Douglas Hale’s witty collages play with pieces of found imagery, colour and symbolism. Hale uses contemporary graphic styles to produce fantasy landscapes and unusual profiles, combining tribal and mythological references in contrasting tones beautifully strange scenarios.” via @trendland
Jeff is a Senior Art Director at Huckberry, an occasional freelancer, and chef de cuisine at Mi Casa. Beside these he loves shooting and exploring the outdoors, and recently comes up with a long-term project “Sunsetting” - a zine featuring selected shots made in SF.
“At the end of a 10-year spell living in the sunset district of San Francisco, I created this short series of photographs documenting the character of the area—taken at the time of day from which the neighborhood gets its name.”
Bite tongue, deep breaths
Azamat Akhmadbaev (b.1991) is a visual artist who lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works across many disciplines including painting, photography, video and digital art. His artworks operates in the gap between glitch art, abstraction, minimalism and graphic art. Also he is a founder/editor-in-chief of @dontpostme_magazine - a magazine about contemporary art. Private collections in Russia, Spain, the USA, the UK and Poland
BITE TONGUE, DEEP BREATHS, 2020 is a part of an ongoing series of digital artworks by Azamat Akhmadbaev. This artwork continues to explore the limits of digital art world, and it was inspired by a song by Clams Casino & Imogen Heap ‘I’m God’.
Having taken the repeating words ‘bite tongue, deep breaths’ from the song, the artist has transformed a sampled song’s melody and text into the colorful artwork with infinite number of layers. Using glitched, vandalized images and texts (in a special, manually designed fonts) as brushes on a digital canvas, Akhmadbaev represents a dualism of the digital and the real, physical world. Technically, the artist checks out the ability of auto and manual software tools to create the image with glitched, lost, degraded effects. Conceptually, the artist launches the self-reflexive process with a manifestation of his attitude to the legacy of the post-war (abstract painting) and 90’s (usage of computer technologies in art) periods. And references to the popular song are the digitally manipulated links with culture and time in history discourse.
Russian illustrator Polina Okean easily transforms her colourful works to murals and back to prints. Following a minimal visual approach creating quite self-esteemed and good looking characters
London-based motion designer The Dink shares his experimental short that follows the movement and personality of various household items. The environment that each brush finds itself in directly impacts the way they move. with each scene depicting a unique movement and flow providing an individual character to each brush. The collection of brushes chosen, each have very distinctive bristles and textures in order to showcase the contrast of each animation.
Design, animation and direction by The Dink
Sound design by Echoic Audio
When the drape falls, Digital Decade SE, 2020
Award-winning artist Grégoire A. Meyer creates digital illustrations that evoke thought-provoking reactions. His art examines the body in its extraordinary simplicity as a biological, digital and aesthetic organism. He captures the essence of fleeting moments, like a splash of water or a disintegrating face, and freezes them in time in objects that appear almost tangible. His works create a complex relationship between fact and fiction.
““The horse represents our last hope and challenges the concept of black as darkness and as the drapes slips off with its own weight - the future of humanity will be exposed..””
Digital Decade SE 2020 - VR Exhibition
Garden of Hubris, oil and acrylic on canvas
Sholto Blissett (b.1996) is an artist from Salisbury who lives and works in London.
Garden of Hubris I, water based emulsion on canvas on board
Growing up surrounded by the ancient sites of Stonehenge and Avebury stone circle, Sholto has always had an interest in the fictions which societies create in an attempt to understand their place in nature. Hence, Sholto’s largescale, fictional landscapes explore humankind’s relation to nature. At first glance, he evokes the Kantian division of the human and nonhuman; yet his works then turn the viewer towards the Sublime realisation that these two notions are indivisible. Thus, the original, Kantian conception of the Sublime in which the human and natural are purported as separate are challenged by the alternative arguments emerging from the events of the Anthropocene. Sholto encourages the viewer to realise their – our – inescapable intertwinement with the natural world.
