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Léopold Rabus

Posted by Fabio 12 May 2010

Fairy-tale-like and frequently a bit gruesome romantic paintings by young Swiss artist Léopold Rabus.

Yngve Holen

Posted by Fabio 11 May 2010

Half Asleep to the 2010 Hot One Thousand and One by German artist Yngve Holen. Watch pictures from the exhibition here.

Beatriz Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. She studied the Curso de Comunicacao Social, Facha, Brazil from 1978 to 1981 and School of Visual Arts, Parque Lage, Brazil from 1980 to 1982. read more

György Kepes – Vision + Value

Posted by Fabio 7 May 2010

György Kepes (October 4, 1906 – December 29, 2001) was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1967 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974. read more

Static Movements

Posted by Fabio 7 May 2010

Static Movements is Piero Zagami visual exploration of the human movements, focused on martial arts performances, printed on see-through paper on a large format book. The experiment aims to freeze the movements of martial art performers into a tangible series of layers of perception through the use of visual narrative techniques applied with the use acetate, draft film and tracing papers.

Lotta Nieminen

Posted by Fabio 6 May 2010

Lotta Nieminen is a graphic designer and illustrator living and working in Helsinki, Finland. She studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (2005-2009) and the Rhode Island School of Design (2007). read more

Mari Sunna

Posted by Fabio 6 May 2010

Mari Sunna (born 1972) is a young artist who has lived in London since 1999 and whose paintings have aroused a great deal of attention ever since her first showings. Her works are currently in public and private collections in Finland, in the Saatchi and Deutsche Bank collections among others, and in countless private collections abroad.