Creating and presenting artwork can be quite the fascinating experience, especially when you get to show it to your peers. Creating your art and thinking about its presentation in the future is very exciting, but things can get tricky if you plan on having your art photographed in a photo studio, especially if it’s for …
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Mexican mixed-media artist Jorge Méndez Blake organizes his projects into conceptual chapters that immediately suggests his artistic affinity with literature. He translates texts into plastic art, physically rendering the thematic intricacies and dazzling plotlines of canonical literature in ways that provoke and inspire. Méndez Blake’s 2007 work The Castle is inspired by Franz Kafka’s novel …
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This autumn, the notorious aesthetic eye of Wes Anderson and that of his partner, designer and illustrator Juman Malouf, will combine to curate an exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The museum, which reigns as largest art museum in Vienna, invited the pair to be next in a series of guest curators, following exhibitions …
Previously unseen photographs of the late, great David Bowie will be on view at the Francesca Maffeo Gallery in Essex, United Kingdom, from March 24. The collection is comprised of personal photos taken by producer and photographer Geoff MacCormack between 1973 and 1976 while touring as part of Bowie’s band. In contrast to the glamorous, …
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Sarah Seené photographs hold the sense of something you might find in your grandparent’s old dusty albums. They hold an old-world sensibility and charm. She works with analogue exclusively and develops it by hand. The effect is eerily breathtaking. Seené recent work, The Sound of Hooves is a collection of black and white photos …
Rone has been cemented as a street art god in his base in Melbourne and internationally, and it’s easy to see why. He walks on a knife’s edge, with beauty on his left and desolation on his right. The Omega Project gained international critical acclaim, not just in the street art community, but the …
In the last few decades, street art has been propelled into the mainstream cultural consciousness. Prior to this, it had a long and contentious history. Street art or vandalism (depending who you ask) has been around for 1000’s of years. It has often straddled the line between expression and destruction. In ancient Rome, people would …
Berlin-based Argentine artist Miguel Rothschild has produced a pair of installations that freeze the undulating waves of the ocean in intricate exactitude. Elegy , on view at Kuckei + Kuckei in Berlin, draws its name from a poem by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges that memorializes “the irreparable river of the years
Known for creating hyper-realistic sculptures inspired by the humankind complexity, the Australian sculptor Ron Mueck is currently presenting his biggest-ever installation at the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial.
Imagine the decadence of the powerful social media that are part of the daily life of a large part of the world population. Even though it seems difficult, the Romania based artist Andrei Lucatusu managed to give life to this possibility. Through rich 3D rendering, the artist designed a “post-social media” era, where the current …
