Italian artist Rabarama creates human or human-like sculptures in distress, whilst contrasting these poses by covering their skins in decorations of patterns and symbols.
David Maisel’s large-scaled, otherworldly photographs chronicle the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention, piecing together the fractured logic that informs them both. His series History’s Shadow consists of re-photographed x-rays of art objects from antiquity.
“I have culled these x-rays from museum archives, which utilise them for conservation purposes. Through the x-ray process, the artworks of origin become de-familiarised and de-contextualised, yet acutely alive and renewed.”
Italian designer Giuseppe Randazzo’s Stone Fields are created from several fractal subdivision strategies.
“I love the work by Richard Long, from which this project takes its cue. The way he fills lonely landscapes with arcaic stones patterns and its eroic artistic practice, in his monumental vision, is in strong contrast with this computational approach that – ironically – allows virtual stones creation and sorting in a non phisical, mental way, a ‘lazy’ version, so to speak. The virtual stones created from several fractal subdivision strategies, find their proper position within the circle, with a trial and error hierarchical algorithm. A mix of attractors and scalar fields drives the density and size of the stones.”
Influenced by a hate crime against him and his partner in 2008 at a music festival, Canadian born London-based artist Andrew Salgado (1982) painted bold, largescale figurative paintings that explore psychological states focusing on ideas of sexuality, masculinity and identity.
His current exhibition The Acquaintance at The Art Gallery of Regina moves away from that particular personal history to reveal stories of others in his familiar Baroque influenced style.
Swiss artist and photographer Fabian Oefner (1984) is a curious investigator, photographer and artist, whose work moves between the fields of art and science. His images capture in unique and imaginative ways natural phenomena that appear in our daily lives, such as sound waves, centripetal forces, iridescence, or the unique properties of magnetic ferroliquids. His exploration of the unseen and poetic facets of the natural world is an invitation, as he says, “to stop for a moment and appreciate the magic that constantly surrounds us.”
Vanishing Beauty
A bursting ballon filled with corn starch. For a tiny amount of time, the starch still keeps the shape of the balloon, forming this blossom-like structure, before it collapses.
Black Hole
Black Hole is a series of images, which shows paint modeled by centripetal force. Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod, creating these amazing looking structures.
Scottish artist Paul Chiappe creates pencil drawings derived from old photographs. These drawings are meticulously small (some so small that the use of a magnifying glass is required), and upon closer examination, reveal odd smudges and white-outs that seemingly construct distorted versions of the anonymous memories they represent.
Clara Adolphs’ portraits are inspired by memories and captured in what might be described as a retro-perspective coupled with a thick impasto technique.
Carl Melegari explores both the human form and the urban landscape. He primarily focuses on the semi-abstraction within the figure. Often working from life and models, Melegari explores how the physicality of the paint combined with the density of pigment can give a sense of life radiating from the canvas. Through the veils of layers, achieved by continuously accumulating and scraping back the paint, a figure emerges as if to suggest how the sitter itself has become enveloped and partly obscured by the energy of the paint.
Daniel Barkley is a Canadian artist whose paintings are at their core reworkings of biblical and mythological stories. Portraying the emotional essence of the dramas, his mostly male subjects display a captivating raw vulnerability.
Chad Wright’s “Masterplan” conflates a child’s sandcastle with architecture typifying postwar American suburbia. The three-part series culls artifacts from his childhood, investigating suburbia in its vision and legacy.
Photography by Lynn Kloythanomsup of Architectural Black
Nadia Duvall’s aesthetic works are created by dropping paint into water and manually shaping it until it develops into a thin layer of film, which the artist refers to as her second skin.
As a child photographer Swiss born, Melbourne-based Jessica Tremp dreamt about being a dancer or being able to fly and able to learn to speak the language of the animals in the forest. Today, with the click of a finger, she has found a way to make her love for drama come true.
Belgium artist Michaël Borremans (1963) evocative paintings are influenced by 18th and 19th century artists, such as Édouard Manet and Diego Valázquez.
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s “Madness is part of life”, was an organic installation (2013) comprising thousands of suspended plastic balls in colourful netting, allowing visitors to walk through and set against the pristine white walls of Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo.
“The valorisation of the human is about productivity over humanist qualities, the closer to machines, the better it is. Madness has been part of society, something that must be controlled, hidden by medication as if it were the right thing to do, but right for whom?”
Brett Amory’s works are based on photographs he has taken of ordinary city architecture and random people who he sees on a daily basis but never speaks to. He feels especially drawn to individuals who look lost, lonely or awkward—those who don’t appear to fit in socially.
Margaret Ashman is an experienced printmaker specialising in photo etching. Her work investigates the human figure and movement.
“My imagery is carefully constructed from my own photography and borrowed elements from sources such as fabrics, garments, wallpaper, or books with an oriental influence. I strive for a spiritual elegance and simplicity in my finished works, in contrast to the lengthy, complicated process of making. A poem or phrase or idea is given to the dancer as a starting point, from which the work evolves. Further layers add new constructs until the etching process translates the final image into a coherent whole, with rich textures and delicate colour combinations. The addition of birds, flowers and other elements allows the viewer a window into the subconscious inner world, a different reality to the visible.”
Margarita Georgiadis is an Australian artist whose work explores the illusion of reality, the presence of absence and the law of the continuum of forms. Margarita’s work is influenced by physics, literature, philosophy, mythology, film and cinema. The below work is from her series The Dust Weavers (2009).
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Image may be NSFW.
Image may be NSFW.
Image may be NSFW.
