Category: arts
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Gaga-esque
Madame Peripetie explores the boundaries between fashion, sculpture and the human body, experimenting with various fabrics and patterns; whilst infusing high-fashion elements with abstract and conceptual ideas, creating an eccentric escapade of color and texture. Behind this gaga-esque and burlesque pseudonym one finds the artist Sylwana Zybura who is based in Germany and UK working…
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The Art of Evanescence
An outstanding artist I recently fell in love with is Fernando Gómez Balbontín. Fernando is painter from Santiago, Chile. His collection of work revolves around vehicle accidents and death. Portraying the reality of uncertainty and blind ignorance through the eyes of an observer. “We seem lo live in an inevitable nonconformity. We do not accept…
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Hello Brooklyn! The Motion Work of Kim Dulaney
Kim Dulaney’s skill set is as diverse as her collection of awards. This year, alone, she picked up a Golden Lion at Cannes for Best Design for her OFFF titles, was named in Lürzer’s Archive magazine’s ‘Best 200 Illustrators Worldwide’ and chosen as an ADC Young Gun to boot. Currently based in Brooklyn – her…
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Tradition vs. Modernity in Shanghai: Maleonn
Ma Liang, also known as Maleonn (1972 Shanghai), is a talented Chinese photographer who has gained a kind of cult following because of his fable like photographs. His images, in color and black and white, are often created with props, actors and a strange mix of hues, colors and theatrical sets. A graduate of the…
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My personal Triple A for France: Hellohikimori
Even though France seems to lose its Triple A rating in economy, I am sure it will never lose it in terms of creativity. Hellohikimori prove that to me. Hellohikimori (HKI) was founded in 2004 by Nathalie Melato and David Ronhel. The name literally means “pulling away” or “being confined”, i.e. the acute social withdrawal…
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