#extreme art

[acrylicalchemy]

I'm going to get back to creating some pieces with unique shapes and extreme proportions. My next painting will be a big circular piece that spins like the hex panel I did about a month ago...and then a dual door panel after that. 

Carini Arts

[emlp2020]

WARNING. Disturbing imagery.

No way we are watching this in class, but we can talk about it: 

The body, religion, suffering, ecstasy. Piercings, scarring, and blood. 

[dextedomini]

David Nebreda, Backlight on the window; the old and the new mirror. The message old and new, the vision of the frame, Self-Portrait series 1989-1990. Photography.

[stellato-17]

She has what I call... Identity Crisis, but takes it easy without thinking on consequences, also as a double life, even for fun... as whatever happened nothing 😨

[lace-monitor]

The basic experience of mental and physical anguish knows no national borders.

–Yang Zhichao

[mediazink]

🔥 FIRE PERFORMERS 🔥

PART I - SOLO ARTISTS

KRYSTIAN MINDA

Krystian Minda is a world-class international extreme artist. The best Polish fakir, two-time semi-finalist of the Mam Talent program and the first sword-swallower in the history of Poland. Multiple country and world record holder, official representative of Poland at prestigious foreign events. He has performed, for example, in France, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, England, Portugal, Denmark and Sweden. It is also important that he belongs to the International Association of Swallow Swallowers and was nominated for the title “Personality of the Year 2017”.

FIRE PERFORMERS - PART I - Solo Artists - MediaZink

Fire performers kindle every stage to redness and guarantee extreme emotions with each of their amazing solo performances.

Photos took by Kamila Burzymowska

[dhla]

Julien Bayle: Unbalancing | K-Devices blog

Interview with an enigmatic sound and visual artist on using K-Devices tools, Max, and Ableton Live to forge music from uncertain and non-musical origins.

“Art has to be extreme. Silence, noise. Hard vivid light to complete darkness. In pure noise, there are shades, as well as in pure silence. We can have huge room for expression even in extreme forms.”

Always a pleasure to sit down with the endlessly quotable Julien Bayle. My latest for K-Devices.

[arcee78]

Tomohiro Katō

Last week on Twitter, I came across an interesting tweet posted on the official Twitter account of the Kushino Museum. I didn’t quite understand what the post signified at first, but after looking into what the post meant and what significance it had, I understand what made it so interesting. I mean, I understood what the tweet said, but I didn’t understand the entire significance until I looked up what the backstory to the piece was.

For a quick lesson on this, back on June 8, 2008 in Akihabara area of Tokyo, Japan, a 25-year old man by the name of Tomohiro Katō drove a truck into the Akihabara shopping quarter, striking many civilians in the process, before exiting the truck and utilizing a knife to stab others caught in the middle of the rampage. As a result a total of five people were struck by the truck with three of them being killed while another twelve people were injured in the knife attack with another four of the victims dying from their wounds.

Tomohiro Katō was subsequently held on suspicion of attempted murder before finally being charged with the murder of the seven victims and eventually being convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, with his death sentence conviction being upheld by the Japanese Supreme Court in February of 2015.

So, that is the backstory to the tweet that was posted last week. But the more interesting part of the tweet was the fact that the museum is set to display a work of art by Tomohiro Katō – a replica of the promotional poster for anime film The IdolM@ster Movie – that was created using eighty-one sheets of A4 paper and the image being comprised of nothing by the Japanese character for depression – “鬱” meaning “utsu”.

The Japanese character for depression.

I can’t even imagine the kind of patience and meticulousness that went into the creation of this kind of art. I don’t want to even dabble in entertaining how to comprehend what was going on in the mind of Tomohiro Katō as he created this daunting image, but it is safe to say that this kind of thinking is rare indeed.

The original image.

The replica image by Tomohiro Katō.

As someone who has recently been suffering from both Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder, I can empathize with Tomohiro Katō and what he may be going through, but I don’t want to step into that kind of darkness and try to explain away or justify his actions that cost so many people their lives, just that I understand what may have been going through his mind as he created this piece of work.

Unsurprisingly, the piece of art is being displayed at the Kushino Museum in an exhibition known as the “Extreme Art – by Death Row Prisoners Exhibition” that is being sponsored by an anti-death penalty group. Think of this what you may, but I find it a very interesting piece of art – even if it may be a little dark, twisted, and somewhat perverse.

Japanese Death Row Inmate Creates Art Using Character for Depression

Last week on Twitter, I came across an interesting tweet posted on the official Twitter account of the…

Japanese Death Row Inmate Creates Art Using Character for Depression Last week on Twitter, I came across an interesting tweet posted on the official Twitter account of the…