Tag: illustration
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Cross-Cultural Anxieties
Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads.…
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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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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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Photographic Baroque by Alexia Sinclair
Alexia Sinclair is an award-winning Australian photographer and digital artist. Skillfully walking the tightrope that divides the worlds of fine art and commercial art, she is dedicated to presenting contemporary notions of fashion and beauty. Her distinct style is easily recognisable and highly original. Using a visual narrative to seduce her audience with each photographic…
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It’s A Dot World
Visitors to the Children’s Art Centre at Queensland Art Gallery in Australia are handed coloured stickers as they enter one part of Yayoi Kusama’s current show and invited to ‘obliterate’ a previously pristine white room… The Obliteration Room revisits a project Kusama created for the gallery’s Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in 2002, where…