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 This picture comes from my latest set, It is about a father and son who after have been hitting a pole, go their own way.. The idea came from a dream i had about my own father and myself.
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 This picture comes from my latest set, It is about a father and son who after have been hitting a pole, go their own way.. The idea came from a dream i had about my own father and myself.
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The treatment of the body as the most direct media of expression and exteriorization of our own histories and relations has been the central theme of the work of Erika Harrsch. Presenting intimate aspects of invitation and seduction, which suddenly turn us into unprepared voyeurs, evidencing a close relation between nature-psychology and sublimity. To Harrsch, the body is the place where all needs are registered, a place of desires, affections, emotions, all of the drama
and grandeur of human life interpreted through this perspective. Continue reading »

New York based artist Katherine Mangiardi’s paintings of lace, which of handiwork possessed a beauty of process and attention to detail that is becoming vacant in an age of machine-generated reproductions, are unbelievably haunting, like the delicate, filmy fabric of a ghost, or like the painfully decaying lace of an antique dress. Continue reading »

Miso has been working as a street artist for 5 years, combining fine art approaches to wheatpasted and painted works on the streets. Her works serve as documentation of things that would otherwise be forgotten, both in subject matter and in that her work is itself temporary, as it becomes weather-beaten and decayed on the streets. Miso has exhibited her drawn works worldwide, on the streets and in galleries, and currently lives in Melbourne, where she works with the Mitten Fortress artist collective. Continue reading »

Daniel Danger is an illustrator and printmaker working out of New England. He is best known for his screen-printed art prints and posters.
Daniel Danger’s work is simply stunning. His painterly use of print making as a medium elevates the reproductive process as an art form to the umteenth degree by exploiting every bit of its qualities to the its full extent. But it’s the mood and character of the work that is completely engulfing. Continue reading »

Maira Kalman, born in 1949, is an American illustrator, author, artist, and designer. Born in Tel Aviv, Kalman came to New York City with her family at age 4. She has written and illustrated 12 children’s books, and her artwork is featured in a recent edition of Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style.” She has done The New Yorker covers and recently created a panel story for The Rosenbach Museum and Library’s 21st-Century Abe Web project. Check out her blog on NYTimes “And the Pursuit of Happiness“, where she tells stories in a very lovely way. Continue reading »

Yang Jiechang was born in 1956 in Canton China; currently lives and works in Paris and Heidelberg. The artist studied calligraphy and traditional painting and borrows on those skills to create contemporary works, like ink-dripped characters, maps and traditional landscape images with a modern feel. He also has created collages, installations and performance art. Continue reading »

Gerard Rosés (born 1944, in Barcelona) is a complete artist who goes through painting and sculpting but embraces the audiovisual possibilities to reproduce all of the details of urban realities. In fact, he is one of the city type and intends to present its beauty along with the natural essence. His pieces’ colors are warm and full of harmony, just like Expressionism ones –a big influence for him- and Fauve used to evoke. Continue reading »

Installation by Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.
All these images are taken from his dramatic art installation “I Want to Believe” retrospective displayed at the Guggenheim Museum, New York last year.
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