Jarek Kubicki – photomanipulations. Artist, photographer and webdesigner – winner of many prestigious awards in the internet creation field, graduated from Fine Arts Highschool in Gdynia, and Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Born in 1976 in Gdańsk, Poland and currently living and working in Warsaw.
Géraldine Georges Illustrations, Illustrator from Belgium, Bruxelles.
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels Géraldine worked as a graphic designer in various advertising agencies for 7 years. Towards the end of 2006, She started to work as a freelance illustrator. She did not felt like she was leaving behind the graphic design world but rather she was able to see & bring some graphic design elements into her illustrations. The two are inevitably linked for her. Her approach is pretty simple, she tries her best to transcribe emotions, find a perfect balance through the collages without falling into the trap of over-using Photoshop or other effects…
Sculptures hyperealistes Carole Feuerman, born 1945.
Working in both monumental and life size, she is the only figurative artist to hyperrealistically paint bronze for use in outdoor public art, and the only sculptor to install these sculptures in the water.
Patricia Broothaers – androgyn and bashful sculptures..
OSerais-je pour certaines.. parler qu’elles dégagent un « quelquechose » de très trans ?
En tout cas, une émotion pudique et très parlante, un aspect « grimée » très particulier.
(Belgium).
Beautiful Art Tapestry sculptures of Frederique Morrel. Multi-talent artiste (France, Paris)
« We speak to animals in their own language. We like materials that tell stories of simple, ideal happiness, and that have been caressed by many hands.
We are inspired by Adam and Eve. The Garden of Eden. temptation. Original sin. The fall of man. Paradise Lost. Deluge. Apocalypse. Noah’s ark. Redemption. Re-birth. Vanities. Veneration.
We Question the dynamics of man vs woman, craft vs industry, of art vs decoration, of man vs animal, of beauty vs ugly, luxury vs cheap. »
Rachel Ducker Wire Sculpture. (UK)
British contemporary artist, Rachel Ducker was originally trained as a jeweller. With an insatiable desire to create she turned her attention to sculpting the human form in wire, concentrating on the expressive and emotional dynamics of human nature.
Rachel Ducker Wire Sculptures
« With an incredibly visual, active mind Rachel has an insatiable desire to create and make. Well practiced in life drawing and with an appreciation of the human form and the emotional dynamics of human nature, combined with being originally trained as a jeweller, lead her to experiment with wire as a medium for sculpting the human form, capturing something ephemeral, either emotive or active.
Her pieces are untitled due to her belief that everyone sees something different in the sculptures and her lack of suggestion leads them to live that moment she portrays in their own particular way, therefore expanding the piece of work further with every viewer.
The translucency and form of her work allows rather dramatic shadows to be cast and with the right lighting, can show the three dimensional form on a two dimensional level creating an effect resembling a pencil sketch on the wall.
Rachel uses no model and she doesn’t form the shape around anything. The posture is first designed and then the pieces are carefully molded by hand and then gradually added to, wrapping wire, layer by layer. Her satisfaction with the posture can be instantaneous or take days and every angle important right to the tip of the finger and to a millimetre of adjustment until just right. She discovered that the slightest movement in the angle of the hand or fingers, or the tilting of the head changes everything the figure is portraying.
Her sculptures being featureless leaves the posture to say all, expressing the feeling. The hair creating the scene, making all more turbulent, dramatic, adding latent movement and tenacity. She is very focused on people watching and body language and how people express themselves physically and all goes along side her keen interest in psychology.
Her inspiration may come from the human form, but she is also greatly inspired by different materials, found objects and new techniques and is keen to combine mediums, finding it often leading to new ideas, which Rachel is never short of!
The wire work keeps her more than busy, supplying over twenty galleries in the UK alone, various exhibitions and numerous private commissions globally. But Rachel tries to keep her active mind diverse in it’s creativity. She still makes her silver cast jewellery to commission and enjoys experimenting with painting, life drawing monoprints, photography and is keen to try animation with the wire figures, as well as constantly moving on with the sculpture. »
That’s digital Art of Federico Bebber
et c’est macabrement beau !
Federico Bebber – restlessness – Digital art
The audience is universal. Tones are colourless, from pure white to dark black, through the whole range of greys. The contents are literally ripped out of everyday life, combined and merged with agonising shapes, exposed to a fantastic metamorphosis, within a dream-like and surreal environment.
Viewers will stop to listen, as if waiting for some noise,
without knowing whether it will be music, words or screaming.
Will the viewers be able to the detect the humour hidden behind that unrest?
Federico Bebber was born in 1974 in Udine, Italy. Since 1998 he deals with digital art. He uses digital tools based on photography.
His creative process usually takes place slowly and at night.
Luminous Art glass David Willis. Glass installations.
David Willis’ work is predominantly lampworked borosilicate glass which allows him to create works that range from delicate to massive. He is inspired by the natural world and addresses the relationships between people and nature at all levels in his work. During this residency, David Willis will produce a clear glass field of daisies. « Growth and decay, composition and decomposition, life and death, reality and the surreal, will be addressed by this work. »
Sculptures métamorphosées et poétiques de Armelle Blary. (France) – Tissus, fil de fer
Son univers personnel se développe dans des œuvres où l’humain, l’objet, l’animal, le végétal se croisent dans une poétique de l’entre-deux et du devenir.
Nourrie de littérature, Armelle Blary recourt volontiers aux mythes anciens. Elle puise dans les récits de métamorphose matière à produire des formes inédites qui embrassent dans une même énergie le vivant et le perdu. Le prétexte poétique devenant ainsi le moyen privilégié d’une réflexion sur le désir, la mort, l’amour, la foi…
From one style to the other, from one artistic medium to another… Sculptures of Grzegorz Gwiazda. (Pologne) – Bronze, resin, ceramics, paper…
About the medium: In all Gwiazda sculptures, great attention is paid to the colouring and the patina. Sometimes not only the colour is important but also the fact itself that it is “painted” on the work, insomuch as the artist leaves the effects of the drops and strokes visible. One might wonder if the sculptures are a mass that emerges from the two-dimensional surface of painting or if the latter is the inevitable conclusion of the sculptor’s work.
Subtilité et matière Martine Schildge. Née en 1951, vit et travaille à Paris.
Dans son travail, l’artiste se met à l’ouvrage en nous proposant des installations de textiles blancs. Coutures et broderies se dévoilent au fil d’un parcours conçu de volumes intrigants. Le blanc donne le ton et apporte aux formes la douceur et la fluidité que la subtilité des matières accentue. Dans ce monde, l’intimité et le silence sont de mise.
Mais le songe bascule lorsque l’on contemple de plus près ces figures. Les formes, de plus en plus inquiétantes, sont suspendues, errantes ou encore pour certaines, enfermées et lovées dans des cages de tissus.
Burning man. A city in the desert. A culture of possibility. A network of dreamers and doers.
Le festival Burning Man est une grande rencontre artistique qui se tient chaque année dans le désert de Black Rock au Nevada.
Elle a lieu la dernière semaine d’août, le premier lundi de septembre étant férié aux États-Unis. C’est Larry Harvey qui a proposé en 1986 la crémation festive d’un mannequin géant sur la plage de Baker Beach, qui fait face au Golden Gate Bridge à San Francisco. En 1990, l’événement est déplacé dans le Nevada pour permettre l’accueil, dans une sorte de ville temporaire en plein désert, d’installations (Art Camps) et de participants (Burners) de plus en plus nombreux. (Source: wikipedia)
« Burning Man est aussi bien un rendez-vous interlope pour vieux hippies ou fêtards de San Francisco que pour l’élite technologique de la Silicon Valley. »
C’est Woodstock et la Biennale de Venise réunis, la ruée vers l’Ouest et la plus grande rave party du monde : c’est Burning Man, le festival qui surpeuple chaque année le désert du Nevada, ou l’expression la plus anarchique de l’optimisme américain. Un concentré de l’énergie pure de la côte Ouest et de l’immense richesse des États-Unis.
Venus du monde entier, des centaines d’artistes bâtissent d’immenses chars éphémères sur des charpentes de bois, des voitures-sculptures, des véhicules mutants, des yachts des sables qui vont croiser dans le désert pendant la semaine de cette fête qui ne s’arrête jamais… Ponctuée par la mise à feu spectaculaire de ces édifices, à l’aube ou au coucher du soleil, devant des dizaines de milliers de fans exaltés. Tant qu’il dure, Burning Man est sans doute la plus monumentale exposition de sculptures au monde. Et pourtant, chaque année, quand s’achève le mois d’août, il n’en reste plus rien. (Lire la suite sur lefigaro.fr)
Le theme du rassemblement 2015 sera « Carnival of Mirrors. (380 $ l’entrée en 2014… hmm)
Blog Graphiste, Sculptures, Photos, Ver et Vie
