Friday, 16 December 2011
Monday, 12 December 2011
Cinna Monday.. - Inspiring art
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| Hannah Radenkova, 'Phantom Barber', 2009, brush and ink, paper and digital textures |
' The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula ' is a legend that started in during World War II.
At night little wisps of hair from woman and little girls were cut of while they were sleeping.
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| Theresa Pfarr, 'Lapse', 2009, ink, graphite, papercollage (61 x 46cm) |
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| Seungyea Park (Spunky Zoe), 'Blind me not', 2011 |
Spunky Zoe is trying to capture two monsters. One that lives outside of her and one on her inside.
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| Metsa, 'CementPearls', cement and silver |
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| Photographer: Maarten Alexander, Artist: Stephan Bontje (Rul3rs), 2011, Mini Mall Wall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (300m2) |
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Tight Thoughts - Photography - Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf is a photographer who was born in München, one of Germanys biggest cities. He grew up in the USA and has been working and living in China for several years now.
In 2010 Wolf visited Japan for the making of his project ‘Tokyo Compression’.
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| Michael Wolf, 'Tokyo compression; Image #17', 2010 |
‘Tokyo Compression’ is a photo series that shows us commuters on their daily travel in the overcrowded subway of Tokyo. People standing in uncomfortable postures with various intriguing expressions on their faces. At first glance it is hard to grasp what is going on.
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| Michael Wolf, 'Tokyo compression; Image #9', 2010 |
Wolf’s photos have a certain mystique feeling about them. It is not quite clear were the people are. And the photos are sometimes a little blur or even foggy. When starting to realize that the fog you see is created by the condensation of the breath of all the people, Wolf's photos take you even closer to that misty place..
– It must be hot in there – Those people have absolutely no choice but to stand so close together – How will it smell? – Where are they even traveling to?–
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| Michael Wolf, 'Tokyo compression; Image #13', 2010 |
Together the photos of Michael Wolf make a fascinating documentation of the daily situation of many Tokyo inhabitants. But every single photo is also a portrait, showing us the different ways the persons are coping with this compression.
The photos are very personal as they have been shot as a close-up. But also distant caused by the glass of the subway doors, separating us, allowing us to read their faces and imagine their thoughts.
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| Michael Wolf, 'Tokyo compression; Image #33', 2010 |
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| Michael Wolf, 'Tokyo compression; Image #35', 2010 |
Two books have been published this year about the interesting ‘Tokyo compression’ by Michael Wolf. But if you’ve become really curious, why not visit the Tokyo subway yourself…
Monday, 28 November 2011
Flowers from Ei Ka - Video art - Karina Eibatova
Karina Eibatova or ‘Ei Ka’ is an illustrator and fine artist born in Leningrad, Russia.
In 2010 she created a video named ‘Floral Anthem’ that has been exposed in Moscow and Berlin.
‘Floral Anthem’ is a metaphor of a returning to paradise. A woman’s attempt to return to a state where she is pure again. As was the montage of the video, pure, no monologues, no sound at all.
Ei Ka herself also “went to the floral condition” as she beautifully describes the action in ‘Floral Anthem’. Though she is not the girl we see in the video, whom is absolutely perfect in her roll. It just shows the professionalism of the artist for exploring her subject completely.
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| Karina Eibatova, 'Studies for Floral Anthem' (Showing model and Ei Ka in the floral condition), 2010 |
The exposition of ‘Floral Anthem’ is always accompanied by a delicate ‘flower composition’ that finishes the video so perfectly. Maybe she even used scented flowers…
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| Karina Eibatova, 'Flower composition, part of Floral Anthem' 2010 Berlin |
Karina Eibatova studied Classical Art Disciplines in St. Petersburg, Fine Art Education in Sweden, Contemporary Art in Moscow and will start this year as a student of the Media Art Class in Vienna. Wow… all that hard work definitely shows in her video work ‘Floral Anthem’. Can’t wait to see more.
Monday, 7 November 2011
It's a Cinna Monday - Inspiring art
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| Cătălin Petrişor, 'Killing dead time', 2010, Oil on canvas (56 x 43 cm) |
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| Claire Falkenberg, 'Cloud' 2010, Oil on C-print (74 x 76 cm) |
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| Mikel Nilsson, 'Guinea Crow' |
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| Hannah Lemholt, 'Photographics', 2011 |
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| Stef Driesen, 'Untitled', 2009 |
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