Spanish photographer Maykel Lima manipulates via digital prostproduction the subjects by taking them to another dimension, into a twisted view.
His works look both still and shifting at the same time and the bodies are warped too.
The protagonists lose their sense of identity, becoming more like abstract shapes than human figures (when they are not sculptures).
At a first glimpse it’s erotic and after a while it’s so distressing.
Sublime ensamble!
Artist and biologist Chris Maynard’s lifelong work with feathers has resulted in an art form that honors feathers and the birds they come from. With his artwork, Maynard aims to show that the appreciation of feathers can reconnect us to the wonder of life and inspire us to live lightly on the landscapes that we share with birds. He explains, ‘In my work I try to capture a feeling of a bird and give meaning in the simplest way, often in a silhouette. This is in part because my medium does not allow for a lot of detail. Feathers appear to us as endearingly delicate, but they are actually, like my work quite tough.’ The feathers derive mainly from private aviaries as Maynard prefers naturally shed feathers.
Photographer Bertil Nilsson spent a lot of time in the forest growing up in Sweden but his entire adult life living in the city. Through his experiments with dancers and circus artists he came back to explore nature and, maybe because of that childhood connection, it triggered a great sense of adventure in him.
‘Naturally’ was born from that inspiration to explore, both the landscape and our role within it. Working with the naked figure in nature is straight forward, there is an obvious connection with our natural history. Nilsson explains: ‘I’m interested in what happens when I introduce cultural elements – color, shape and dance gestures – to question that relationship. Naturally is also a personal journey of exploration for me. My interventions took on a theme of tension between order and chaos. I like to align, structure, analyse and ultimately control – in a visual sense – the world around me. The dancers with their free expression confronts me with an opportunity to let go of a bit of my control and let the chaos unfold.’
excerpt from ignant.de
Artist David Mesguich (previously) has been creating large geometric sculptures that he installs in locations around Belgium and France, blurring the lines between street art and fine art. The pieces are displayed in public areas and aren’t made to be sold but are instead donated to the city. Of his most recent work, PRESSURE 1.0, he remarks:
The story of “pressure”—it’s the story of people who are on the fence, in between worlds, those who are both on the inside and on the outside. My inspiration came from two sources: a family history that steeped me in a violent, carceral universe during my youth and more than 10 years of trespassing with graffiti.
Mesguich has several other pieces you can see on Behance and on his website.
designboom spoke with the artist mark evans, who specializes in ‘micro-sculpting’ leather, etching away at the material with razor sharp knifes and dyeing the material to stunning effect.
Heres my favorite snippit from the interview:
DesignBoom: what’s the last thing that made you say ‘wow’?
MarkEvans: my latest boxing images. I have never made work this good. I had an epiphany last week and locked myself away in my studio for four days straight. I’ve just created the best piece in the last twelve years of work.
“I’m not going to be the girl you marry, but I’ll be the girl you’ll be thinking of 20 years from now while you engage in polite sex with your boring wife who fakes her orgasm to make you feel better about your receding hairline.”
omg this is so fucking tight. Fight Club Minus Tyler Durden.
“COLORFUL WOMAN”
Enrico Varrasso
digital art / adobe illustrator
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United Visual Artists - Always / Never, London (2012)
Always/Never is the result of UVA’s recent investigations of the perception of time. Always/Never is a grid of pyramidal elements inspired by the sundial, each passing through time at a different rate. Changing patterns of light and shadow create the illusion of a fluid surface; shifting combinations of colours from nature recall different times of day.
Materials: Powder Coated Steel, Timber, LED, Code, 1750x2900x174 mm
United Visual Artists - Vanishing Point, Berlin (2013)
Vanishing Point employs perspective as both tool and visual outcome to reshape, redefine and represent a space. Inspired by sketches of Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo DaVinci and Albrecht Dürer, UVA sends lines into space from an arbitrary vanishing point, creating different volumes, divisions and rooms to be explored by the audience.
Materials: RGB Laser, Black Voile, Code, 6x3x15 m
Ranging from assemblage to video and photography, Michel de Broin has developed a constantly expanding visual vocabulary. Piece by piece, the objects involved are sometimes universally recognizable but their behavior defies their functions and uses taken for granted. Crafting new relationships between waste, productivity, risk and consumption, established modes of signification are endangered, yielding retooled technological environments that feed a constant questioning.
ooo ooooo!!! i’m really digging these collages by Karborn. really dope.
John Leigh aka Karborn creates detailed and dynamic mixed media work. The London-based artist combines complex digital structures with organic elements to create mind-blowing pieces in which beauty and disorder interact with Karborn’s reality. The artist himself describes his creative style as ‘Mother’s dreams. Machine’s execution. Dedicated to beauty and concept.’ His inspirations are ‘lost and found pieces of film, gifs, your silhouette, my gold, that neckline, their swagger, her smile when the arm of the tree momentarily obscured her face, Klimt, Viola, Man Ray. The so-called realities we have unimaginatively constructed and burdened this world with, the wonderful ideas I see all around me.’ Find an interview and some insights into Karborn’s studio here.
(excerpt taken from Ignant.de)
Check out these aerial photographs of Botswana by Zack Seckler…
Zack Seckler created pictures of animals, vegetation and salt ponds in Botswana from 500 feet above the ground. The result is a series of images that are an aesthetic mixture between landscape and pattern. The photographer describes his experience: ‘Being above the ground at such low elevations, and having the ability to precisely maneuver, was like gliding over an enormous painting and being able to create brushstrokes at will. As soon as I saw the landscape from above I knew there was potential to create a special body of work.’ The effect is pure beauty. You can see the series at Robin Rice Gallery in New York until February 23, 2014.
Chances are if you’ve on the internet over the last few years you’ve run into a few amazing bird murmuration videos, like this one from Islands and Rivers or the one we featured on Colossal from Neels Castillion, where countless numbers of starlings flock together and move almost impossibly in concert. Artist Dennis Hlynsky, a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, wondered what would happen if he could better trace the flight paths of individual birds, what kinds of patterns would emerge from these flying social networks?
