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The beautiful macabre jewelry by Macabre Gadgets, Kiev, Ukraine.
Divine art dolls by Tireless Artist, born in Lithuania.
I just can’t describe the wonderful feeling of creating a doll. I enjoy each process. First they appear in my mind, and I am carrying them there for a while. I am trying to see as many details as possible – the face, the position, the colors, the fabrics of the outfit, all the accessories and finally to guess the character’s name and the story behind it. When I know enough, I am starting to work. I’m making sketches and notes in purpose to put all the ideas together and I keep it as a reminder on my table during the whole doll making process.
I never stop getting surprised, when a simple peace of clay turns into a face with its own character. It takes a lot of hours until I am completely satisfied with the sculpting. I keep cutting, sanding and sculpting again until there comes a moment when I see – yes, this is it!
Creative sculptures figuratives of Dirk De Keyzer, né à Sleidinge, près de Gand, en 1958.
Sculpter n’est pas un choix pour Dirk de Keyzer, c’est avant tout sa nature propre. Il façonne surtout des femmes élégantes au visage déterminé mais aussi des hommes à l’air farfelu. Ils rayonnent un goût de vivre sans complexe et poussent leurs observateurs au relativisme. Dirk de Keyzer est un pur créateur de formes et de silhouettes qui renvoient à la réalité mais qui en sont aussi une interprétation restant toutefois fidèle à l’harmonie ou à l’esthétique.. Son travail au fil du temps s’imprègne d’un univers singulier, hors du réel, féérique et magique.
(source : Barthoux)
Surrealistic Fine ART of Juri Jakovenko, born in Belarus in 1965. In 1992 he graduated from the Academy of Art in Minsk. Since 1994 he is member of Belarus Art Union and in 2001 he began teaching at the Academy of Art in Minsk.
The biography of Juri Jakovenko reflects the historic peculiarities of its time dynamism, mobility, communicativeness and at the same time devotion to the native land. He was born in 1965 in Russia, grew up in Belarusian Grodna, studied in Minsk and then returned to Grodna to live and to work. Not being originally Belarusian he became one by character, world outlook, spirit and always emphasized his belonging to Belarusian culture.
Choosing a profession was not an issue for Jakovenko, as the atmosphere of creative work was always present in his family: great grandfather, grandfather, father were fond of drawing. Creative energy accumulated with generations was fully expressed in Juri. When he was fourteen he knew exactly that art was precisely graphics for him. Juri graduated from Belarusian Academy of Arts. This education was classical, it consciously formed the future artist, made the basis of professionalism, helped to express individuality. The first exhibition in 1988 when the works of the student were presented on the republican level can be considered the beginning of creative biography of Jakovenko.
Artistic distinctiveness of this artist was formed gradually: the problem of individuality for him is a problem of creative growth, continuous search and coming over oneself. Having tried different graphic materials and techniques the artist had chosen for himself very laborious techniques etching, mezzotint and aquatint.
Juri Jakovenko is a very intellectual and sophisticated artist. He likes to create series of gravures united with personally significant topics: « Archipelago », « Signs », « Alchemy », « Runes ». He is attracted by the past where he searches for values harmonic to his world vision. Various historic cultural phenomena appearances of different cultures, epochs and civilizations trigger creating reflections of personal ideas. The artist firmly combines cultural signs, symbols and myths and creates his own world through his own perception.
Different artistic traditions are found in creative work of jakovenko which makes it difficult to refer him to a definite trend of contemporary art. His work is related to European medieval miniature and Bosch mystics, surrealism and symbolism, national traditions of Sarmatian portrait and historicism. The easiest way is to relate his work to postmodernism, though this unified notion doesn’t really reflect its essence. The artist is so original that for now it is impossible to find the right definition. Combining the best national and European cultural traditions the graphics of Juri Jakovenko creates the image of contemporary Belarusian art.
Sviatlana Yanchalouskaya,
Doctor of Philosophy
Translated by Sergey Burlyka (Source : Epreuvedartiste.be)
Beautiful paintings Brian Viveros.
A technical perfectionist, Brian Viveros’ oil, airbrush, acrylic, and ink paintings are highly saturated with pigment, luminosity, and depth, while the compositions are poignant and simple. The artist’s emphasis tends to be on focal points such as the eyes, lips, and skin, conveying the subtlety of minute expression and the power of an impaling gaze. The paintings feel cinematic, like haunting stills from a film, owing to their evocative suggestion of narrative and to the iconicity of their subjects. The artist’s creative cosmos is beautifully stylized, never derivative, and distinctly recognizable as his own.
Sculptures poétique Clementine De Chabaneix. (France)
« I work with epoxy resin or ceramic, iron and sometimes wood.
I often sculpt young ‘ Burtonian’ girls, kind of « Alice in Wonderland », teenagers, romantic, a bit gothic…
My work is about leaving childhood, metamorphose, struggle.
I draw also with very thin lines, minimalist black and white drawings, with the same subject. »
L’un des plus grand sculpteur hyper-realistes expose à Paris
CHOI XOOANG (Corée du sud)
« The Blind for the Blind »
Galerie Albert Benamou
6 March to 17 April 2014
Galerie Albert Benamou – Véronique Maxé
24 rue de Penthièvre
75008 Paris
Glauques sculptures mixed media art of Monica Cook. (Etats-Unis)
Oui, je crois qu’il est temps de créer un style artistique,
du genre « The Awful Art » dédié aux gens (qui comme moi),
ne comprennent rien à l’Art contemporain.
Neo-Pop artist Dan Colen (American, b.1979) is a multimedia creator who has made quite a name for himself with his unique painted sculptures, gum paintings, and installations.
Mixed media Sculptures of Anna Gillespie (England) – Bristol based artist producing drawings and representational figurative sculpture using contemporary disposable materials and bronze.
The sculpture shows the time of gathering but also a gathering up of transience, as if by embracing time you might stop its perpetual motion. And in bronze it is caught forever.
In such work the distinction between the human and the natural world is blurred, reminding me of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses,’ in which people are transformed into trees, birds, and flowers. In all the tales the transformation is an act of mercy – so the self-obsessed, lovelorn youth Narcissus becomes a flower instead of suffering death, and the devoted old couple Baucis and Philemon are changed into trees at the same time. There is real compassion in Gillespie’s work too, and she would understand that process of becoming, for in those sculptures which do not make use of the twigs and seeds which became a characteristic so beloved of her admirers, there is still a struggle to break free of what was and become something else. So a white figure is imprisoned within a stone wall, and people wrapped in duct or masking tape are infused with extraordinary energy and given the gift of flight.
This is the work of an artist at the height of her powers, who is involved in an endless process of change herself – a serious, passionate quest for synthesis.
Bel Mooney
Figurative Sculpture of Cristina Cordova. (USA)
Cristina Cordóva, a Penland artist in residence, is a ceramist whose delicate, whimsical human and animal forms spark our imagination and curiosity. She discusses her work on display at the Possibilities: Rising Stars of Contemporary Craft exhibition at the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte.