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Portrait of Armand Roulin, 1888

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Aporie: Photography and Painting Hybrids by Giovanni Castell

Nature ablaze with colour, and exalted, almost romantic, landscapes, fantastical scenes and mysterious settings, rooms shrouded in darkness and stark interiors flooded with light – Giovanni Castell’s works of art overpower us.

Advanced photo- and computer technologies have given rise to a wide spectrum of possible hybrids based on both photography and painting, and such images no longer try to provide an accurate depiction of what is there, but rely on the interpretation of a reality conveyed through the medium of digital technology or else on complete invention. Castell is an explorer and visionary in the use of these new possibilities. He creates paintings both cheerful as well as melancholy, overwhelming as well as touching, romantic, dreamy places of longing, mysterious, surreal urban landscapes, beautiful, impressionistic nature scenes. And he provides a totally personal reply to the question as to what painting – even more than photography – can mean today.

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Hooperville, Nigel Van Wieck

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#hightidesoclock Marco Gaggio

A small sampling of the images of Venice you will find on Marco Gaggio. This particular photoset highlights one of his series: the high tide series. A flooded St Mark’s Square, gondolas about to float inland, half sunken tables and chairs, all constant reminders of time and the power of nature.

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WATCH: An Interactive ‘Fur’ Mirror by Daniel Rozin (video)

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Conrad Jon Godly - Spes

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Lace Detailed Steel Objects of Cal Lane

Cal Lane is an artist from Victoria, British Columbia, currently living in New York.

I like to work as a visual devil’s advocate, using contradiction as a vehicle for finding my way to an empathetic image, an image of opposition that creates a balance - as well as a clash - by comparing and contrasting ideas and materials. This manifested in a series of “Industrial Doilies”, pulling together industrial and domestic life as well as relationships of strong and delicate, masculine and feminine, practical and frivolity, ornament and function. There is also a secondary relationship being explored here, of lace used in religious ceremonies as in weddings, christenings and funerals. With this notion of desirable oppositions I created the structure “fabricate”. In this Structure I hand cut lace trimming patterns into 9 I-beams, then constructed a tower, simultaneously macho, and of delicate finery. The metaphor of lace further intrigued me by its associations of hiding and exposing at the same time; like a veil to cover, or lingerie to reveal. It also introduces a kind of humor through the form of unexpected relationships…

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Rinko Kawauchi is a Japanese, Tokyo-based photographer whose work is characterized by soft focus vignettes describing the poetry of the everyday. In an interview, Kawauchi says that she prefers “listening to the small voices in our world, those which whisper,” it is that very thoughtful perspective that provokes meditation and invites her viewers to be sensitive to their surroundings so that they too can transform delicate, vibrant details of daily life into ephemeral treasures.

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Marble Sculptures by Alex Seton

Alex Seton’s artistic practice incorporates photography, video, sculpture and installation to investigate the complex relationship between form and substance. He is best known for his beguiling marble carving, applying his refined craftsmanship to unexpected forms. Blankets, hoodies, inflatables and national flags are rendered in stone, invoking a somatic paradox. By infusing the rich heritage of Classical statuary with contemporary concerns, Seton gives weight to the issues we face here and now.

In his most recent bodies of work, life jackets and poolside toys become potent reminders of Australia’s troubling policies pertaining to asylum seekers; inflatable crowns celebrate the ease of contemporary life, too readily taken for granted. Follow him on Facebook. 

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Rikako Nagashima - Water Mirror

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Retro Collage by Joe Webb

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Dark strange fruit, Kim Kei

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Book Club, Guy Laramée

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Sculptures by Tracey Sarsfield

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Igor Eškinja Burned sand on the floor of the project room in ex Foundation Pomodoro in Milan.

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Do Ho Suh

Korean artist Do Ho Suh draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. Interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestations, Suh constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity. His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity (Miwon Kwon - The Other Otherness: The Art of Do Ho Suh).

The film PERFECT HOME by Nils Clauss shows some of Suh’s artworks displayed in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. 

Words and film by Nils Clauss

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British Watercolorist  - Alexander Creswell

Alexander Creswell (born 1957 in Helsinki, Finland ) is an internationally celebrated artist known for his extraordinary fluency and technical skill in watercolour and his remarkable ability to capture ‘the spirit of place’.  He is best known for the large series of watercolours commissioned by the Royal Collection to depict Windsor Castle after the Fire and Restoration in 1993 & 1997 respectively, published as a book “Out of the Ashes”. He is also known for his ground-breaking watercolours on a grand scale - the biggest ever painted.  Throughout his career he has received critical acclaim for his watercolours establishing himself as foremost in architectural painting and in recent years he has achieved huge success with his marine paintings alongside his more familiar architectural work. Creswell exhibits regularly to critical acclaim in New York, London and the Dubai.

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