Piotr Dumała: Zbrodnia i Kara/Crime and Punishment 2000, 30min
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Viddler video.also take a look at Piotr Dumała’s Franz Krafka 1991, 16min;
and Woslnosc Nogi/Freedom of a Leg 1988, 10min (more)
Buck: Animation in 2d and 3D (via)
http://www.vimeo.com/5715709(via rapeshower)
Eric White: The idea that there are things that exist beyond our perception is fascinating to me. It is something that I think about a lot, and it is not necessarily clear in most of my paintings, but I think it’s the foundation of pretty much all of it.
Read an interview with the artist on fecal face,
and have a look at Eric White’s Eclecticism: Virtue or Defect?
Pakayla Biehn’s most recent body of work concerns her congenital vision disability, called Strabismus. Her eyesight consists of mutually exclusive images trying, unsuccessfully, to bond into a cohesive impression.
First Solo Show:
January 2010, Every Single Where, Gallery 6, San Francisco (Read More)
also take a look at Pakayla Biehn’s photorealistic paintings
Malice in Wonderland is the work of experimental animator Vince Collins, 1983. (via)
Hibiki Miyazaki’s influences include old movies and printed illustrations from the thirties, forties and fifties, which have a dreamlike and slightly naive quality to the characters. To produce her prints she uses sandblasted copper plates, line etching, spit bite, and xerox transfer.
Sometimes this whole process seems ridiculously arduous and arcane but that’s what I love about it too…..
Follow Hibiki on flickr, sneak into her amazing sketchbook and check her gallery
see also: Proofing Madness Unfinished State, by Hibiki M.
Juan Burgos expands the urban apocalyptic events of inattentive daily life. His inspiration is an innocent children’s storybook, out of which emerges a delirious collage. (read more) via we make money not art
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Hailing from their little tree house in Berlin, the Monkeymen are happy to announce the release of a new Experimental Animation Piece: SKINLINES.
Herr Schobel: A lot of time, effort and love has been put into this shiny little gem. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it. Feel free to comment, criticise or just show us some love. If you enjoy what you see, spread it around and help us to extend our monkey empire.
Make sure to turn HD on!
http://www.vimeo.com/7731624Elinor Carucci, born in Israel 1971: “I can’t show intimacy in any general way, if there is such a thing as general intimacy. I can only say something universal about intimacy through actual intimacy. Mine. The actual real relationships I have with specific people. With these people that I love. The deepest I can reach is within what is most familiar and close.” (via)
Jenny Morgan: “I manipulate the figure to expose the individual’s idiosyncrasies and create a physiological portrait. Working with people from my own life as subject matter allows me to hone in on specifics of their character and present their personalities as I experience them.” (via)
The grotesque and the distorted provide the subject-matter of Jonas Burgert’s art. The atmosphere in his paintings is of a world of destruction and decay. Each painting is a carefully constructed stage, containing an artificial world set up with dramatic lighting, exotic costumes, stage props and sweeping staircases. As if set in the theatre or opera, fantastical make-up and costumes evoke humans and animals, shamans and magicians, giants and dwarfs, demons and harlequins, creatures dead and alive.
Rules and actions of this world and their inhabitants mostly remain mysterious and inexplicable to the viewer. However, whether Burgert’s actors are on their own or cramped together with countless other beings in a kind of contemporary history painting they have one thing in common: the loneliness of the individual. (via)
The artist is currently showing at Haunch of Venison London
Milan based painter Valerio Carrubba is a hyperrealism painter. He has some pure beauty work that are already in some big collectors homes. Some of his works are painted twice; one brushstroke lying on top of the other. This double painting emphasizes the colors and repeats the form in order not to describe them but almost to deny them. (via)
Brendan Lott: “All the good ideas have already been thought about,” people say. They mean that this is a bad thing. But I love it. It is comforting. It really takes the pressure off of me. All these pre-thought ideas are useful, and they usually still have some good left in them, especially when applied in a different context.
Art is not special. Therefore neither are artists. An artist is simply someone who happens to professionalize an activity that everybody else does automatically. To choose the color and texture and size and style of your couch is an artistic gesture equal to one of Pollock’s drips or Judd’s shelves. The only difference is the couch chooser is simply doing it, whereas Pollock and Judd are making a big production of it. This doesn’t mean art isn‘t important. It clearly is. Like making the right choice for couch color is important. Many people express themselves beautifully by doing nothing other than selecting clothes that they will wear that day. Is this any less valid than Duchamp selecting a snow shovel? The difference is that Duchamp gets in the canon and everybody else just looks great at parties. I’m not sure which is more important.
If I could write a dictionary I’d want to make all the strong words so broadly defined that they would lose all practical meaning outside of a specific context. I’d like negatives like stupid and ugly to become more positive and words like brilliant and beautiful to become more negative so that they would meet somewhere in the middle. These words would then become simply descriptive without carrying any sense of judgment, like shiny or rectangular. I think then the language would become really free. People could say whatever they thought without worrying about hurting anybody’s feelings. People could really describe their own personal state of affairs clearly and without shame. (via)
This image of the male sex organ of a flowering plant took first place in Nikon’s annual Small World photomicrography competition this year.
Chosen for both its scientific and artistic qualities from among a record 2,000 entries, this image was captured by Estonian scientist Heiti Paves. (via)
See 137 contributions of this year’s competition at Nikon small-world and check out the small-world winners from 1977-2009.
The system of belief or not; that is not the problem of yours ;
Jo Seub’s World of Disbelief
Jo Seub (1975, Born in South Korea), has developed a distinct system of disbelief, the centerpiece of which is a fluctuating of self-identity. By putting the symbolism of contemporary symptoms of scepticism into the artificially controlled images, he has taken disbelief as one main subject in his art. Irrationality and the distortion of one’s internal life have been common paradigm for postmodern system of reasoning and acting. This self-betrayal produced by the tension between the superficial belief and the internal disbelief are continuously knocking on our belief system of which we thought it could guide us to imagine and advance our own perspective of ’sensus communis’. From the perspective of a ‘pictorial ideology’, Jo Seub questions that why our living has to be determined in a trivial way. (via)
Who wants to live forever // Do not question
Sonia a Novosolov, Born in 1983 in Moscow, Russia. Immigrated to Israel in 1992.
Currently working on a series of paintings called “Anorexia”.
Cakeland by Scott Hove is a sculptural installation resembling a collection of perfect delicious cakes– wall mounted, hanging and standing– a walk-through cake environment complete with its own lighting. It is a sweet refuge, an endless kaleidoscopic landscape of cake, a respite from the grinding realities of the outside world. (via sweet station)
Take a virtual tour inside the shrine at Hi-Fructose.
Made by the photographer Jean-Yves Lemoigne for Amusement. A magazine dedicted to video games and interactive culture.
how it was made
Camilla Engman grew up in a small Swedish town named Trollhättan. This is where she began looking at life from a perspective that most of us see only momentarily. Often through animals or people, Camilla’s pictures inspire their audience with a wide range of feelings. Her work has a knack of allowing you to grasp a notion without robbing you of your personal interpretation, regardless of whether it’s an acrylic painting, paper-on-paper or mixed media.
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