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The streets of Hull (England) were transformed into an ocean of painted human flesh as 3,200 volunteers braved the North Sea chill to create an incredible spectacle. Called the Sea Of Hull, it was the biggest nude art installation Britain has ever seen and the brainchild of US photographer Spencer Tunick, who was impressed at how wholeheartedly his idea was embraced.
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On July 4th, Digital Decade’s annual art collaboration kicks off at the Underdog Gallery in London. This year’s exhibit, “There is No Planet B”, features the work of international digital artists who address the economic, social, political, and environmental problems we face by imagining a world without them.
Using their talent for photo manipulation and glitch art - the purposeful corruption of data within a digital file to create distorted yet aesthetic effects - 25 invited artists and 2 winners of The Open Call contest come together to “Imagine there’s no… climate change, human aggression, war”, and more.
Curated by Arseny Vesnin from Designcollector Network, with help from Curioos, YOUTH Worldwide, and Depositphotos, the artworks will be featured on large aluminum prints until July 6th.
“Korean artist Yeesookyung masterfully produces imperfect sculptures, bulbous yet elegant works composed from mismatched porcelain. The series, titled “Translated Vase,” was first inspired by the Korean artisan tradition of destroying porcelain works that are not deemed pristine, and she has continued to make the fused pieces since 2001. Intrigued by these tossed aside works and shards, Yee began saving fragmented tea cups and pots rejected by contemporary masters. Honoring the works’ dismantled states, she traces each crevice in 24-karat gold leaf in the style of Japanese kintsugi, merging the unwanted works together in a way that heightens the beauty of their distress. In this way she blends diverse methods to form a contemporary process that evokes both the elegant designs of her homeland and the delicate rebuilding of damaged works in Japanese tradition.”
German Gonzalez is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Medellin, Colombia.
Talented Canadian photographer Blaise Misiek rooted from Poland shows off epic portfolio. We enjoyed its Still Life section the most. Below is his recent series made with stylist Chad Burton for Metal Magazine
Our Time (2016) is the latest large-scale installation by United Visual Artists investigating our subjective experience of the passing of time. It defines a physical environment where pendulums swing at a pace apparently unhindered by the laws of nature and where no single time measurement applies. The installation combines movement, light and sound as a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional canvas the visitor can enter. Pendulums swing, each to their own rhythm, as time flows through the grid. With light tracing the path and sound its echo, the passing of time becomes almost palpable.
“As of the most convenient mediums to capture reality, photography sometimes moves a step beyond it and takes us on a journey to the unknown. Ilka Kramer does just that, creating unearthly scenes that question our perception of landscapes.”
“In a time where we lose direct contact with nature, we accede to it only by the view.”
All images © Ilka Kramer
Leo Burnett Moscow approached NORD Collective to create this motion visual "Technology andf Nature" for Philip Morris
Claire Luxton works with her own body and face as an object of art creating colourful photography prints available for purchase
French indie photographer Chill currently living in Strasbourg working mainly with nude female portraits sharing the best of intimate moments
"Grabelsky’s works depict couples on subways, often nonchalantly reading magazines or newspapers, but the male figures in these dyads are strange, quasi-mythological human hybrids with animal heads. Deer, bears, elephants, tigers, and everything in between, make a suited appearance in rush hour. By contrasting the platitudes of the day-to-day with the presence of the extraordinary and unlikely, Grabelsky stages the unexpected within the most unassuming of circumstances." via ThinkSpace Gallery
Elena Yeo, also known as Ellustrate, is an art director, illustrator, designer and art teacher based in Singapore. Her distinct illustrative style that is typographic, ornately detailed and sometimes swirly have won her drawing contracts with some big names recently. she strongly believes that everyone has the capacity to draw, as long as they put their heart into it. overall, she sees illustration as a powerful form of communication that allows her to convey her own thoughts and ideas through visuals that are beyond what words can solely deliver.
Colombian art director and graphic designer Pablo Baretto creates artworks in mixed media using a fashion language as a main tone
The artistic duo - Yakovlev and Aleeva, who are well known in the fashion community for their sophisticated artistic stylings, have continued to pull heavily from different eras, traditions, and cultures for their new project reflecting on traditional orthodox Russian Easter
“Helvetica filmmaker Gary Hustwit is training his camera on the revered German designer who influenced Apple. ”
Gary Hustwit isn't done making films about design just yet. The documentary filmmaker behind Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized—the trilogy that helped popularise design in the U.S.—is back with a documentary about legendary German industrial designer Dieter Rams.
“Perhaps one of the most famous artist couples of the 20th century, Christo and Jean-Claude have become synonymous with larger-than-life fabric installations that usually involve wrapping buildings, trees, even entire cliffs with cloth.”
The most recent Christo and Jean-Claude project to have been executed is an impressive installation of floating corridors covered with orange cloth in Lake Iseo, Italy. The pair’s first project to be completed after Jean-Claude passed away in 2009, “The Floating Piers” was conceived in the 1970’s and comprises a total of 5.5 kilometres of walkways, 3 km of which float on the water by means of specially-designed polyethylene cubes.
World leading projection mapping studio SILA SVETA released their fresh showreel
Scandinavian illustrator Sarah Egbert Eiersholtrah from Copenhagen shows latest commercial artworks on personal website. More over she started to work as tattoo artist doing line body-works available for preview on her Instagram
A look at how the film SHIRLEY: VISIONS OF REALITY by Gustav Deutsch transforms the paintings of Edward Hopper into cinema. A video essay by José Sarmiento Hinojosa. More at fandor.com/keyframe.
