Etiqueta: collage

Seth Clarke

El pintor norteamericano Seth Clarke tiene una propuesta visual (básicamente collage), semi-abstracta y bastante peculiar: destruye casas, edificios y otras arquitecturas, y las convierte en algo plástico y hermoso.

Una extraña belleza sin duda, creada por poner casas y elementos de urbanización tan devastados como si les hubiera golpeado un terremoto, un tsunami, o un tornado categoría 4. Pero bueno, ya saben que en el arte lo extraño es más valioso que lo común. Siempre es así…

My work focuses on deteriorating architecture. I see an inherent honesty in the face of my subject. These man-made structures, designed to be huge forces of permanence, are now collapsing in on themselves. Among all of the clutter—the shards of wood and layers of rubble—there remains a gentle resolve. It is as if the buildings were content with their circumstance. As I work, I study these structures incessantly. They are on the brink of ruin, yet appear dignified in their state…

http://bit.ly/1YzZlCi

Maico Akiba

Aquí dejo estos curiosos collages tridimensionales de Maico Akiba, quien combina elementos decorativos propios del maquetismo y las reproducciones de trenes a escala para recrear mundos oníricos simbólicamente erigidos sobre los lomos de animales extraídos de ese particular mundo de las reproducciones zoológicas de juguetería y coleccionismo…

Created by artist Maico Akiba, these lumbering toy mammals, dinosaurs, and reptiles carry the burden of miniature worlds that seem to have sprouted from their backs. Akiba uses model making materials commonly used for train sets to build each scene which appear post-apocalyptic in nature. Johnny at Spoon & Tamago keenly observes that, in a way, they resemble a reverse Noah’s Ark. The project is titled SEKAI (Japanese for “world”), and you can see more here…

http://bit.ly/1U4BqsI

Collage portrait

Los collages de este artista neoyorkino son tan espectaculares que dan la impresión de haber sido hechos con algún software. Pero no…

In his collage portraits, Derek Gores recycles magazines, labels, data, and assorted found analog and digital materials to create the works on canvas. The series showcases Gores’ contrasting interests in the living beauty of the figure, the angular and abstract design aesthetics of fashion, and a fearless sense of play. His fine art canvases are exhibited by galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Sydney, Cologne, Miami, Santa Fe and more. Gores’ design clients include Dwell Magazine, Lincoln Motor Co., ESPN, Lenny Kravitz, Lucasfilm, Kings of Leon, U2, Adidas, Madonna, Harley Davidson, Standard Collective, the National Football League, LiveNation, SEIU and more.…

http://derekgores.com/collage

Leigh Wells

Estoy intrigado con las obras de este artista californiano. Varias de ellas hacen rebotar mi cabeza entre el erotismo clásico, y lo plásticamente abstracto…

Leigh Wells was born in Oakland, California, and currently lives and works in Berkeley. She holds a BFA summa cum laude from University of San Francisco, with further study at the San Francisco Art Institute, Crown Point Press and Parsons/New School in New York…

http://leighwellsstudio.com/

wearenapoleon:

works by leighwells studio.

Mysterious buildings

Without the use of a camera Portland-based artist Jim Kazanjian sifts through a library of some 25,000 images from which he carefully selects the perfect elements to digitally assemble mysterious buildings born from the mind of an architect gone mad. While the architectural and organic pieces seem wildly random and out of place, Kazanjian brings just enough cohesion to each structure to suggest a fictional purpose or story that begs to be told. You can see much more of his work over on Facebook, and prints are available at 23 Sandy Gallery…

http://bit.ly/WBZtQC

Pablo Genovés

La decadencia de una civilización puede ser hermosa. Chequen el trabajo de este fotógrafo madrileño…

Palacios, bibliotecas o catedrales, reflejos respectivamente del poder, el saber y la religión de una época, son invadidos violentamente por elementos ajenos, que los modifican y pervierten -no sabemos si de forma perpetua- en un momento suspendido -el que retrata Genovés-, fin e inicio de algo, que supura el silencio que precede y sigue a las grandes catástrofes.

Alicia Murría. ARTECONTEXTO…

http://bit.ly/yXHeFk

Content is Queen

Chequen los procesos creativos de este artista visual y digital. Sergio Albiac, artista visual de Barcelona que mezcla técnicas tradicionales con programas de ordenador que el mismo escribe para generar imágenes, explorando las contradicciones de la belleza, el absurdo y la ilusión de control…

http://vimeo.com/24065726

oxane:

Content is Queen by Sergio Albiac

Generative video painting. See the video at: vimeo.com/24065726

Faile

Si les gusta el arte urbano chéquense la propuesta de Faile. Este grupo norteamericano fusiona el comic, graffitti, y el collage con un estilo “post-pop” de muralismo de vanguardia bastante original y efectivo…

Faile is a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil (CA) and Patrick Miller (MN). Since its inception in 1999, FAILE is known for their pioneering use of wheatpasting and stenciling in the increasingly established arena of street art, and for their explorations of duality through a fragmented style of appropriation and collage. During this time, FAILE adapted its signature mass culture-driven iconography to a wide array of media, from wooden boxes and window pallets to more traditional canvas, prints, sculptures, stencils, multimedia installation, and prayer wheels.While FAILE’s work is constructed from found visual imagery, and blurs the line between “high” and “low” culture, recent exhibitions demonstrate an emphasis on audience participation, a critique of consumerism, and the incorporation of religious media and architecture into their work.

In the words of Falie, the latest artists to hit the mural space on the corner of Houston & Bowery, Nothing Lasts Forever. Not even JR’s black & white portrait of Lakota, Dakota Nation, which has now gone the way of the murals that had previously claimed the same corner by Kenny Scharf, Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos, and TWIST (aka Barry McGee).  The mural was not quite done when I stopped by to check on its progress yesterday, so make sure to check in with The Street Spot tomorrow when we post the finished goods!

http://www.faile.net