Franc Kaiser is a self-taught Swiss painter residing in Shanghai, China. Franc paints with acrylics on cardboard substrates. Each painting starts with an idea and sketch, and the composition is then penciled on a cardboard. The paintings progress in several stages, from a build-up of basic values with acrylic paint to detailed layers, which can take days or weeks. The finished paintings are signed … [Read more...] about Franc Kaiser’s Industrial Ecosystems
Biology
Sofia Crespo’s Neural Zoo
This is Neural Zoo, a zoological & botanical collection of nature that doesn't exist imagined in collaboration with a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network). Sofia Crespo is an artist with a huge focus in bio arts and technologies. One of her main interests is the way organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate itself and evolve, this implying the idea that technologies are a biased … [Read more...] about Sofia Crespo’s Neural Zoo
Ryota Matsumoto – Variable Phase Opacities
Artist Statement Matsumoto’s artwork reflects the morphological transformations of our ever-evolving ecological milieus that are attributed to a multitude of spatio-temporal phenomena influenced by socioeconomic and built environments. They are created as visual commentaries on speculative changes in notions of societies, cultures and ecosystems in the transient nature of shifting topography and … [Read more...] about Ryota Matsumoto – Variable Phase Opacities
Chris Boyko Abstract Surrealism
Chris Boyko paints bizarre, strange, and unusual works. Each painting represents a hidden reality from the artist's subconscious. These representations skirt the boundaries of surrealism and abstraction. Form and shape emerge from the paint. Nearly recognizable and figurative, yet remaining alien, beyond reach, ambiguous. Shapes or sculptures resemble figures or images found in wisps of smoke or … [Read more...] about Chris Boyko Abstract Surrealism
Nicola Samori Contemporary Painting
Nicola Samori examines the theme of obsession from a number of different perspectives: that of the human body, religion, science, and the obsession of the artist with his own work. In his new paintings and sculptures he references art historical and biblical representations of ‘the healing of the possessed’. Examples of such associations are Raphael’s “Transfiguration”, Jean-Martin … [Read more...] about Nicola Samori Contemporary Painting