Nicolas Deshayes

"Nicolas Deshayes’ sculptural installations use materials such as stainless steel and PVC to embrace the glossy aesthetics of 21st century design.  Despite such fascinations, his works maintain a human presence in the forms of glutinously rich, bodily allusions, which engage with materials in ways that distort the ordinary."- Jonathan Viner Gallery

Deshayes states, "I create hybrid sculptures that gather multiple familiar cultural and stylistic references in a way that leads to a strange sense of hyper-materiality." See more;

It was beautiful to see irl Nicolas' Vanille piece in a recent group exhibition at Cell Space Project curated by Attila Fattori. I appreciated to see the texture and relief onto the vacuum-formed plastic, this three-dimensional forms and the bright and glossy aspect reminded me a lot of digital based textures, so the "hyper-materiality" state that Nicolas generates it's pretty good. By the way it was a great exhibition featuring works by several artists I like, there is a review about the exhibition at Rhizome.

Nicolas Deshayes is exhibiting a new work created this year in a group exhibition in London, at Jonathan Viner Gallery until next February 16.  More info here.

Slugs, 2012 

Annodised aluminium, vacuum-formed plastic

Browns In Full Colour, 2012

Polystyrene, aluminium and powdercoated steel - Annodised aluminium, vacuum-formed plastic.

PRECURSOR, 2011

Vacuum formed plastic, powder coated aluminium, neoprene foam

Vanille, 2012

Vacuum-formed plastic, zinc-plated steel, alumium and neoprene foam

Cloaque's 1st Anniversary!

Today is the first anniversary of Cloaque.org, one of the greatest collaborative projects started one year ago by Carlos Sáez and Claudia Maté. Along this time many artists have collaborated to continue the endless column formed by an amount of different kind of works such as collage, painting, digital installations and sculptures, animated gifs, interactive pieces.. Just have a look and scroll down if you don't know it yet.

For this occasion Carlos and Claudia have curated a collaborative video following the same way as they do in Cloaque. A group of artists created a short video and then they were joined each-other through several transitions. See the video into the post;

The video shows works by: Chris Timms (00:00 - 00:30), Rollin Leonard (00:30 - 00:42), Jasper Elings (00:59 - 01:29), Anthony Antonellis (01:37 - 02:04) Emilio Gomariz (02:04 - 03:15), Claudia Maté (03:15 - 04:00). Transitions were made by Carlos Sáez + Dmntia and the music by Yoshi Sodeoka.

Happy Anniversary Cloaque!!

Zugzwang by Rosa Menkman

Zugzwang is a nice series of images generated through feedback from the videomixer, aliasing artifacts as a result of digitization. Created by Rosa Menkman last year, I have just discovered it at the great digital and games based blog by Daniel Rehn. See more;

Lauren Pelc

I like the similarity between Lauren Pelc's digital paintings and real ones made with oil painting or acrylic painting. It's interesting to see how she gets similar strokes, textures, colors, gradients, forms, etc in both ways. Lauren works the digital pieces using several softwares such as Cinema 4D and Photoshop, first she works with the three-dimensional program creating 3d volumes and forms and composing them, then it is altered using Ps. As O Fluxo says; Lauren uses images of sections of her paintings as references or textures to map onto 3-D objects.  For Lauren, the goal is to create images that maintain various dualities.. That can sum it up her interest in the many ways that paint and brush strokes can be altered and remapped with the aid of digital imaging programs. See more;

Digital paintings

Oil paintings and Acrylic paintings

via | O Fluxo

Impacts by Alexandre Burton

Impacts, 2012 by Alexandre Burton_

"Tesla coils each fitted with a glass pane and suspended from the ceiling of the exhibition space make up the components of this “live” sculptural installation. The presence of the visitor before each sculptural device activates an audio and visual experience. The visitor’s proximity to the works engages arcs of electricity of variable intensities as well as a rhythmic articulation, generated by the impact of the electrical arc on the glass pane."  See more;

"As a symbolic and sonic source, the Tesla coil’s ability to throw electric arcs has been employed by a wide spectrum of artists. With this new work, Alexandre Burton proposes the use of plasma (loosely defined as an electrically neutral medium of positive and negative particles) as matter and medium itself, circumscribed by a defined frame and articulated through unique programming. In this way, IMPACTS serves as a reminder of the danger and muscle of this marvel while capturing its sublime beauty and rhythmic potential."

Recognition by Manuel Fernández

Manuel Fernández has created Recognition, an ongoing gif series which uses the face recognition software as pretext to generate a series of animated gif images emulating the process, trying to recognize faces on common objects without getting it, moving the subject away from its conventional use and deviating the attention to other kind of images.  See more;

"In the away from the keyboard age, the use of the smartphone's camera with increasingly sophisticated specifications and the emergence of mobile social networks based on making and image distribution as instagram, has enabled a visual narcissism never before known in other historical period." - Manuel Fernández.

Chris Shier - noisia

Chris Shier aka noisia, updated his website last September including some impressive "canvases" as he calls to the interactive based websites he is creating. The thing is that he's continuing working so hard on this series and the results are just crazy! Psychedelic colors, glitchy atmosphere and digital madness, try it yourself in his website (in the menu, those ones with the empty bullets are for interactive and filled bullets for clickable). See more;

See a previous post talking about this series, here.
Click the following pictures to play with, they are my 4 favorites.