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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Wade Guyton

"Wade Guyton's paintings are ostensibly black monochromes. Made with an Epson large format printer in the same manner as the paintings he has been producing for the last years, these works are printed on pre-primed linen intended for oil painting and not inkjet printing. As such, the images, marks, and letters Guyton continues to employ are absorbed into the porous material and disperse the ink rather than allowing it, as in his previous works, to "sit on the surface." Upon discovering this difference in the ink's interaction with the surface, the artist began to overprint his own paintings with a Photoshop-drawn rectangle "filled" with the color black. By repetitively overprinting, an unexpected painterly process developed. As each piece is created, they transcribe a visual record of the printer's actions: the trace of movement of the print heads, the varying states of their clogged-ness, the track marks of the wheels on wet ink all mixed with the scratches and smears on the paintings from being dragged across the floor to be fed back again into the printer." - Friedrich Petzel Gallery. See more;

via | Sympathy for the art gallery

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Flowpi

Can't wait to receive this limited printed publication (100 copies) featuring the great algorithmic work by Jonathan McCabe, who has worked with Bryce Wilner to make together this piece called Flowpi, which title makes reference to a combination of a "flow" and a pattern forming system named after the pomacanthus imperator fish. The book contains thirty-one new compositions by Jonathan McCabe. To see more info and how this generative and organic texture really flows check out this previous post about Flowpi. See more;

The book's pages were printed by Sunrise Digital on Indigo Text 80# paper. It's available in paperback only, it costs 20$ and it's possible to buy it here.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Silvia Bianchi

Silvia Blanchi is a 28-year-old artist originally from Pisa Italy, now living in Stockholm. She graduated with a bachelor and an MA in Semiotics in Italy. Silvia does an amazing amount of great projects, from fashion to digital art, installations and publishing. Her boyfriend Ricardo Juarez is her work partner; the couple is behind the art project and tumblr Barriobajero. I interviewed Silvia about her different projects and her wonderful sense of aesthetic. See more;

▼ Read the interview ▼

Dora Moutot (DM) interviews Silvia Bianchi (SB)

DM: Let’s talk about Shallowww, your online clothing store! Where do you find your design inspirations?

SB: We are actually three people working at Shallowww. I just designed the first sweater, the Internet one which turned fast into a best seller. Then we decided to create a brand out of it. Our inspiration comes from the Internet and its semiology. Our aim is to translate the 2.0 aesthetic and the digital imagination that surround us to textile production. We ironically play with the cold essence of technology making warm sweaters and apparel.

Shallowww Clothing only distributes online and diffuses its products like memes that is pretty consistent. The collection is limited and printed on demand, respecting ethical and local production standards. We only produce in Spain and Italy.

http://shallowww.biz/

DM: One of your designs is an Arabic typographic print on a t-shirt. It reminds me of an article I wrote about “the muslim trance” tumblr trend. http://www.lagazettedumauvaisgout.com/original/trend-muslim-trance/?lang=en

SB: I read that article and I loved it! We are expanding our symbols research to other alphabets and codes, we are fascinated by our generation trend to take religious symbols and contemporary logos and mix them all together, just caring about how they look and not about what they mean. The funny thing is that the Arabic word on the long sleeve shirt means Logotype but we didn't tell it on the website and we got a lot of emails from people afraid of what it says. It was a nice experiment.

DM: Why do you think this Arabic typography is so appealing right now amongst the Tumblr teenagers? Why did you decide to use it?

SB: Well I think its maybe because of artists like M.I.A, Fatima Al Qadiri or Slavs and Tatars, I was actually preparing a Vj Set for Fatima Al Qadiri when I began to make stuff with Arabics symbols. Trends grow and raise trough images feed nowadays, just think about how social network have changed in the last few years and how Instagram or Tumblr work. Now we just look at images, we get on touch with them trough fast feeds and we get fed up fast with visual inputs. We just look at the signifier but we have no time go to trough the signified, we recognize something as cool because we have seen it before, its a sort of digital memory game. We could define this trends as visual isotopies, basically forms that our brain recognize as redundant and begin to like, I think this is the reason why Tumblr has influenced our imagination that hard.

DM: How do you feel about tumblr trends? Do you think they affect the mainstream fashion world? How do you think the Internet and the digital are going to change fashion?

SB: They already changed fashion world. Jeremy Scott was just the first one who copied what internet artists have been doing during the last years five years and there are loads of brands that like Shallowww are inspired by this baroque 2.0 aestethic. Also art and fashion distribution have changed a lot during the last years, you can make an artwork and diffuse it like a meme all over the world and the same with a sweater or a t-shirt.

DM: Your also create very surrealistic installations. Can you tell us a bit about Caravanart?

SB: Caravanart was an amazing experience. We visited three different cities and had the chance to interact with three completely different landscapes and crowds. Talking about images feeds thay had big influence on my work. I remember that I had a sort of visual obsession for mylar sun shades when I was in Zaragoza, I made this internet reasearch http://advancedimagesearch.tumblr.com/page/12 and then I got one to in a shop. I worked mixing digital video and objects I found in the derelict places I visited.

DM: Your work seems to be quite focused on creating digital textures. We can see it your installations but also in your videos such as One-minute suit, or in the artwork you produced for your own fanzine called “awkward surface”. What is the inspiration for these textures? What kind of software do you use? How do you create them?

SB: I create them with Photoshop mostly, I generally take pictures or video frames and then Photoshop them to get digital/analog textures. Nature and surfaces are my main inspiration. I use water, stones and minerals.

Awkward Surfaces by Barriobajero

O Fluxo Issue #01

FUEGO - Issue #03 – Amulets

DM: There is an 80’s/90’s kind of feel in your work. Does a particular art movement in time inspire you? Memphis Milano maybe?

SB: Definitely. I'm a such a big fan of Sottsass, Mendini and Du Pasquier. A couple of years ago I made a tribute to their work for the Reggio Emilio Museum “Spazio Gerra”. Memphis has a strong influence on my work when it comes to textures and patterns.

DM: Barriobajero is the project you’re doing with your boyfriend, Ricardo Juarez. What is this project about?

SB: Barriobajero is an art platform and experimental creative collective established in early 2010. We’re dedicated to curating, art direction, design, events and consulting services like fashion stylism. We are currently based in Stockholm, working as resident curators at Revenue S:T 79, a new studio/gallery space/club/ we recently opened in the city center. Our other ongoing projects include Shallowww and the self-publishing event series Stacks.

http://barriobajero.info/

DM: Favourite blogs?

SB: http://pootee.tumblr.com/

http://killianflavour.tumblr.com/

http://hood-lum.com/

http://portalenportalen.blogspot.se/

http://contemporaryartdaily.com/

http://vvork.com/

http://schuhtutehemd.tumblr.com/

http://thejogging.tumblr.com/

DM: Artists we should know about?

SB: Andreas Ervik, Ida Lehtonen, Disa Braunerhielm

DM: What are the 3 favourite books/ fanzines/ magazines that you possess?

SB: The Most Expensive Restaurant Ever Built - SHP4

Post Internet - Gene McHugh

Design as art - Bruno Munari

Silvia Bianchi

Interview by Dora Moutot for Triangulation Blog - January 2013

Dora Moutot is a young journalist specialized in fashion within the digital culture. She is the founder of La Gazette du Mauvais Gout where she writes about bad taste, eccentric and kitsch trends. www.doramauvaisgout.tumblr.com

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Brush It In

Intersecting Values of Hue and Brightness, 2012 by Joshua Citarella

Brush It In, a group exhibition at Flowers Gallery, curated by Lorenzo Durantini, including works by Joshua Citarella, Fleur van Dodewaard, Christiane Feser, Darren Harvey-Regan, Antonio Marguet and Anne de Vries.

"Brush it in is a colloquial expression for a wide variety of alterations made to digital photographs after their creation. The transition from analogue to digital post-production yielded an incredible expansion of existing techniques. Adobe Photoshop was originally developed as a digital emulation of the physical techniques of the darkroom. It quickly developed its own specific vocabulary and it is precisely this language that Brush it in engages with. As digital image making became ubiquitous within popular culture so did the awareness that these digital tools often had more power for deception than the photographic act itself." - Flowers Gallery. See more;

"Brush it in also alludes to the digital impossibility of encountering objects within the image saturated landscape of contemporary culture. The inevitable disappointment of mass-produced commodities has created a sort of haptic half-life where the image produces more pleasure than the object itself. Darren Har vey-Regan engages directly with this struggle in The Halt (2011), where an axe confronts and attacks its very representation with a violently iconoclastic gesture. Similarly in Relation (2011), an image of a saw is bisected by a vertical cut in the print that mimics the tool’s physical potential. In Grounds of Doubt (2011), a rock obstinately resists the flatness of the photographic print, peeling away from the otherwise flawless surface." - Flowers Gallery

There is also a publication about the exhibition which you can buy here.

Brush It In at Flowers Gallery

26 October 2012 - 05 January 2013

82 Kingsland Road - London

Steps of Recursion, 2011 by Anned de Vries

More or Less Obvious Forms, 2012 by Darren Harvey-Regan

Study for a Black Nude, 2011 by Fleur van Dodewaard

Konstrukt 23, 2011 by Christiane Feser

CAVE2CAVE_MG_0500.jpg by Anned de Vries

231,639,853, 2012 by Joshua Citarella

Exhibition view

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Island Pavilion

x 莉 x by Alexander Peverett (95 x 73 cm - edition of 8) Enlarge

Island Pavilion is a new production studio based in Vancouver, B.C. specialized in the printing of original and limited edition artworks. It works with artists committed to a practice of digital image making and computer drawing. The line up of artists which is so far is really good, many of them are from the digital collective Computers Club.

The artworks produced through Island Pavilion are distributed exclusively online through this website and they are mostly giclée prints on archival quality papers. They also offer another different processes and/or materials. In both cases, the materials and process are always detailed in the description of the artwork. See more;

More info, works and artists can be found at www.islandpavilion.org

Click images to enlarge_

Drift #10 by Robert Lorayn (27 x 42 cm - edition of 9)

Huh by Petra Cortright (107 x 71 cm - edition of 10)

INFINITE S by Christian Oldham (78 x 98 cm - edition of 15)

Window #2 by Sara Ludy (25 x 29cm - edition of 20)

Cold storage by Tabor Robak (76 x 47 cm - Edition of 10)

HOMELAND #2 by Nicolas Sassoon (60 x 89 cm - edition of 15)

Thursday, November 15, 2012

New Age Demanded .com by Jon Rafman

New Age Demanded (Dripman Stingel), 2012 - Archival Pigment Print - 147 x 107cm

Good to see new pieces from the New Age Demanded series by Jon Rafman at www.newagedemanded.com

"Inspired by classical Greek busts, Jon Rafman uses computer software to digitally render three-dimensional forms. The forms act as the structural surface on which two-dimensional Internet-sourced images are applied. The series is presented as large-scale archival pigment digital prints. Each print is created with its own speciﬁc texture and sculptural mutation. Rafman uses historically recognizable works from canonized artists like Mark Rothko, Georgia O’Keeffe, Piet Mondrian, and Wassily Kandinsky as the subjects of his appropriations." - Stefan Hancherow. See more;