Rope Masks by Bertjan Pot

Hand stitched by Dutch interior designer Bertjan Pot, these rope masks are a playful experimentation of woven materials that can become both graphical and fashionable.

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Jayson Musson

"Halcyon Days"

He was one my favorite characters in Philadelphia! I remember meeting him and wishing that he can be my friend so I can have a blasting experience during my stay there. His sarcasm and attitude cracks my mind cause he has a very *badass way of saying "Black Like Me" (also was the name of his column in Philadelphia Weekly). I'm surprised to see his new artworks as he had a very different take on to this "black" attitude. He wove stacks of Coogi sweaters (we are familiar with the apparel brand as being Bill Cosby's favorite sweater in his show and rappers like The Notorious B.I.G populiarized the brand by calling "cool gangster/coogi") and called his exhibition's name Halcyon Days, where Halcyon bird  is known as a kingfisher that resides in sub-Saharan Africa and so is the name of the the bird in Greek legend that is now used as a term for peace or calmness. So you get the idea.

* You need to check out Jayson Musson's early works to see what kind of humor I'm talking about.

Murat Palta

Le Cool Istanbul's latest cover artists Murat Palta is a film fanatic who depicts his favorites (cult) movie stills as traditional Ottoman miniatures.

Kill Bill

Scarface

Star Wars

Clockwork Orange

Sickboy - HEAVEN&EARTH

First let's get introduced to Sickboy's work:

And confess "anonymously" on his page and contribute to his exhibition.

Then enjoy this amazing video for his major solo exhibition :

Boxi

Born in 1974 in Kent, England, Boxi graduated London St. Martins School of Art with a Fine Arts BA in Painting on 1996. He's been living and working in Berlin, Germany since 1999.

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Guiseppe Arcimboldo

Vortumnus (Vertumno)
 22.44" x 27.56" 

Vegetables

The Winter

 

Summer, 1563

The Water, 1563-1564
19.69" x 25.98"
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Air

Jon MacNair

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Lee Ufan

Visit to Guggenheim Museum - Current Exhibition: Lee Ufan - Marking Infinity

Lee Ufan's monochrome paintings is a fresh approach to minimalist abstraction at his time. The repetitive gestural marks presents bodily records of time's perpetual passage.

From Point, 1975. Glue and mineral pigment on canvas, 194 x 291 cm. The National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka. © 2011 Lee Ufan

From Line, 1977. Glue and mineral pigment on canvas, 182 x 227 cm. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. © 2011 Lee Ufan

Resonance

It was so peaceful to be in the last room where the artist created his work to be perceived as "birth". I felt purified and cleansed from all emotions and thoughts...

Toshio Saeki

Japanese artist  Toshio Saeki uses a traditional technique to portray his illusions. Some of them has intense sexual content while some carries a cartoon-like characteristic.

He calls this method chinto printing – the picture is complete only after it has been printed.  It is a modern version of the ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese woodcut prints or paintings produced between the 17th and 20th centuries.  Ukiyo-e were works of collaboration between the eshi (artist) and the surishi (printer).  Saeki is paying homage to this style, and considers himself an eshi.

 

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Adam Kimmel F/W 10

Adam Kimmel was inspired by, and worked with NYC painter George Condo to create some showstopping masks and illustrations for his fall look book and video presentation.

Watch :
The Casino Collection Security Footage from adam kimmel on Vimeo.

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Kenno Apatrida

Here is a Peruvian artist Kenno  – who has taken on the name Kenno Apatrida, apatrida being Spanish for ‘stateless’ – experienced a very different notion of the artistic travel abroad, by being exiled from Germany suffering from many complications followed by the fall of Berlin. Turning his 'stateless' state into an artistic meditation on the concept of ownership, Kenno collected belongings of people that are left out in empty buildings in Berlin where these objects would take a stand in his work as representations of abandoned life by becoming recycled identities. His installations add more meaning to his artistic meditation coming out as a series of shamanistic rituals.

In his gallery's presentation PDF it was mentioned that "Only on closer inspection we discern a number of figures familiar from the visual language of Hieronymous Bosch (1450 – 1516), whose Renaissance imagery has influenced the work of Kenno Apatrida beyond the aspect of iconography." I'm not sure if his figure/figurines are similar to Bosch's but I can totally see the influence. Bosch would be a great topic for me to cover in the future but if I start with Renaissance I can get pretty lost so let's say hopefully maybe someday... 

From Kenno Apatrida's "Exhumation" exhibition:

 Call a Cop - Berlin Utopia Proposal, 1995 – 2008

acrylic and ink on paper marouflé mounted on canvas, 330 x 250 cm

Capital Death Dance, 2008

ink and gouache on paper, 41 x 51 cm

Old Collage Rearrange in Berlin, 2008

mixed media, 53 x 53 cm

Mars Utopias, detail, 1993 – 2009

Skull 2, 2009

painted paper mache, 29 x 39 x 26 cm

 Waxed Ancestor, 2008

mixed media, 72 x 55 cm

Crying Elk, 2008

70 x 40 x 14 cm

mixed media