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DOTS Digital Art Magazine

March 18, 2012 in Magazines

Starting March 1st, the new app DOTS Digital Art Magazine is available in the Apple App Store. This first edition of Dots is free and downloadable on iPads Worldwide.

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Dots surprises and inspires. Instantly! We’ve created Dots for real art lovers and for anyone in need of a powerful dose of amazing creativity.

The first issue of Dots offers a wide variety of articles and interview, all with their own story to tell. Meet ‘creative inventor’ Theodore Watson, and travel with us to Africa, to see how Western artist influence villages with colorful graffiti through Wide Open Walls. Discover the visual spectacles of video-mappers MrBeam, and visit the new world of the Dutch Maritime Museum, ‘hello world of interactive paintings’. The most interesting
projects and inspiring exhibitions can be found in regular features like Dotspot and The World of Art. This first issue features more information about the makers of the magazine in Behind The Dot.

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Interview with Alex Heaton

March 17, 2012 in Painting

You draw on a wide range of mediums including paint, collage and scale models – how do you decide which to use?
I decide in an organic way, for instance a piece like Alpine Start may dictate that its painted, so as to create a feeling of gassy nebulous clouds, the fluid nature of oils suits this best. However to render the details like linear constellations the gold leaf seemed a natural choice for this due to the fact that gold itself can only be formed in the heart of a dying star.

With the prints because they are obliquely collaged and deal more with graphic lines, screen-printing work best, as it’s a medium of hard edges and sharp lines. To paint those collages, it seemed to me would deaden the impact of the stark visuals I was sourcing.

The models were at first a starting point for the paintings; I was using them to map out what I wanted to paint instead of using a sketchbook. Eventually they became art pieces in their own way and not just supporting material. The Paintings were not about movement as such, more like somber still reflections on landscape and natural forms. So I feel each medium is essential in a way that gives insight towards the others.

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Réflexion

April 19, 2010 in Painting

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I am a french artist, i would like to share my work with you.

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Illustrations on Walls

February 26, 2010 in Graffiti

Book illustrations: Often small-sized pieces of art on paper that relate somehow to a written text.
Instead of sticking to that format, Felix Gephart and Dominik Hebestreit decided to paint book-related illustrations on walls.
Both agreed upon the “Baron Muenchhausen” from August Buerger, a tale that has been illustrated numerous times, way back also by Gustave Dore.
When composing the sketches for murals, Felix often alienates parts from the text and visualizes the motivs of its characters, often mixed with a good portion of irony.
Both artists transform the drawings by eyeballing on the wall. Being notorious believers in study and craft, Felix and Dominik refuse tools like rulers, copy machine, photography or projector, which gives them more freedom in terms of motiv choice, perspective and final execution.

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Nick Gentry – paint and computer disks

February 23, 2010 in Painting

Floppy disks, VHS tapes, polaroids and audio cassettes. As a child growing up in the 80s and 90s this combination played a massive part in how I learned about the world. Favourite films, albums, games and even personal recordings were all stored on there. The whole world was totally reliant on these physical media formats. Now suddenly we are at a time where they are obsolete, replaced by countless intangible data files. As information is released from the physical form it allows personal data and identities to now be revealed and infinitely shared online. At the same time many of us consider individuality and privacy to be more precious than ever. Will humans be forever compatible with our own technology? In my work I want to simply highlight this new movement, as I believe it to be an important cultural and social transition of our time.

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Felix Gephart Illustrations

February 15, 2010 in Illustration

33 years old draftsman Felix Gephart works in Berlin, New York and China. His large-sized ink drawings as well as Gouache paintings are often inspired by literature. Another body of his work are up to 600 square-feet murals that seem like gigantic wood-cuts.

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Gephart draws inspiration from fantastic realism, satiric imagery, culture jamming, asian ink-painting, Pop Art and Graffiti. His text-inspired works focus on the hidden motifs of his characters, but also sample the pleasure of tragic humor as a consequence of human adaption and mainstream.
Felix Gephart received a Fulbright grant and graduated with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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His work has been internationally featured amongst others by Novum, DIE ZEIT, Illusive, Graphische Kunst, Empty magazine, Dpi magazine, Playboy magazine and Esquire magazine. In October 2009, 80 drawings were shown on the occasion of his solo show at the A. Paul Weber Museum, Ratzeburg.

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Valentina Brostean

February 11, 2010 in Illustration

Born on October 24th,1983, in the town Novi Sad, Serbia. Valentina’s interest in art began at an early age. Her entire childhood was spent drawing, illustrating and painting. After finishing elementary school and high school for design she continued her education on faculty for applied arts “Academy of Art Novi Sad” on section graphic design and from year 2008 she is a student on Master studies on same faculty with a major in “book graphic and illustration”.

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Artist statement:
I have always had an eye for the strange beauty in the grotesqueries of life; This appreciation is now very evident in work that I am making. Inspired by the relationship between dreams, natural world and the emptiness of consumer culture, between safe childhood playing to everyday marks of reality I bring and create a new type of creatures in my imaginary world. It is a whole range of characters from the ones in darker corners of the streets of soulless cities to the safe and pure creatures from imagination in my wonderland trying through them to prove that I have never grown up, or at least have never lost touch with my innocent childhood self.

My body of work is built of this melancholy interaction between man-made status symbols and frozen moments of the utopian childhood memories. In my work I often flirt with different typefaces, superimposing pieces of print on top of my illustrations, or using them as part of the drawings. I often use draws in black ink on top of these collages, using all kind of hand written scribbles often, which pull the focus of the work back from the adult world to the realms of childhood. This experimenting with more text and new techniques led me to emerging of very personal style.

The characters i paint may seem like some creatures from another dimension, real but unreal, sometimes very closely connected with childhood, playful and inventive, sometimes abandoned and tragically sad and full of misery. But i think they are simply us, modern society without it’s masks, without the fake presentations that make us acceptable to whatever group we are a part of. Yet the only place where we are truly revealed the way we really are is one from the inside. We all share feelings of fear and loneliness. We all sometimes feel ugly and insecure.

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If you examine my work closely, you might come to the realization that my creatures are really kind of self portraits, set in a fantastical landscapes of imaginary world which echoes of her own… a bitter, yet sweetly coated prescription for modern life.

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ddmagazine november issue

November 13, 2009 in Magazines

DAYDREAMING (www.ddmagazine.it) is an online magazine founded in 2007 in Trieste (Italy) and exclusively dedicated to the creative image its many forms.

Its aim, born from a precise editorial choice, is collecting and exhibiting the work of visual artists in a pure form. Presenting it simply as data itself: no artist bio, no critical analysis of the works, no extra info that could in any way distract from the innediate impact the work has on the watcher.

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DAYDREAMING MAGAZINE November 2009 ONLINE

“RAPTUROUS NATURE”
The quarrel between man, nature and art, Unavoidable down the centuries, is a matter worthy an endless soap-opera. For or against, willing or not, the artist has always brood in his own shadow over the lunatic terror for the fact that his creation wouldn’t have bear the comparison with Mother Earth. Many took their distance, other ridiscover her right now, some did never abandon her. The confrontation’s just begun…

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Nanni Spano (Metamorphosis):
High definition and macro modality investigating on details and texture of algas, of cortex, on stones and leaves, have unattendedly penetrated from other image-worlds with a violent meanwhile classical synthesis. While we’re expecting the image to be clear and still like crystal, meeting our visual pleasure, the artist contaminates and melts its elements and sense, slipping in the disquiet for an impossible unalterability- (G. Carbi)

Dan May (Illustrations):
A fairy Arcadia is being illustrated, populated with Beauty-nymphs and Beast-satyrs, fainting infancy and insects. Melancholic poetry enlighted masterfully from the inside.

Heiko Muller (Drawing/Mixed Media/Oil):
Through an unconventional use of stylistic sovrapposition, the artist lets us attend a very interesting mediation between the expressive medium and the natural datum, between illustration and photography, between Pop echoes and Action paintings, breathing life into a powerful and immediate iconography confronting nature and history.

Scott G.Brooks (Painting):
Here’s the umpteenth violence to the american dream, far from being gratuitous, together with the umpteenth homage to renaissance art, far from being imitation. Deformities legitimates themselves with confident looks of disquieting wellbeing; distortion meets smiling our eye. What if the world was this?

De Becker ( Into the wild):
The transposition of the urban subject in the natural datum, fundamental intuition, provokes a grotesque disorientation, but not only… the gamut of sensations provided by these images indicates a relational investigation between man and nature that is far from being unveiled.