Yago Hortal

http://www.yagohortal.com
http://yagohortal.blogspot.com/

When finding these paintings for a moment I wondered if they were a new series of Gerhard Richter's overpainted photographs. The colors used were much more striking though. They were made by Yago Hortal (1983), a spanish painter based in Berlin who happens to have a very rich and fluid use of acrylic.

Flo de Richefort

Photos by Stephan Massé

http://floderichefort.com/

—Flo de Richerfort is Florian Roth, a young creator from the parisien atelier Chardon Savard. In June 2009, his jewelry line appeared in the italian magazine Grazia alongside those of Yohji Yamamoto and Christian Lacroix. "These days, my sewing machine and I dress poetic and sometimes pathetic people. The role of each piece is being brought in everyday life, giving life to matter, and to color."

—In this collection he proposes a fresh and androgynous line in pastel colors, full of eye catching elements like his jackets-vests with silk-screened Miami-esque landscapes. The cuts are simple, comfortable, and organic with decorative details in gold, ribbons, pearls, and soft and joyful colors.

Sources:
http://www.casablancafashionweek.com/
http://www.aufaitmaroc.com/

VRNO

http://www.flickr.com/people/vrno/

Jamal Vrno is an artist based in MIchigan.

Matthieu Lavanchy

1. The Aftermath. In collaboration with Stefanie Pluta
2. Mr Scuhlman or the Man in the High Castle
3. The Aftermath. In collaboration with Stefanie Pluta

http://www.matthieulavanchy.com/

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1986, Matthieu Lavanchy studied photography at ECAL Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne. He currently lives and works in New York.

Claudia Luthi

“Black and white photography captures the magic of theoretical thought, in that they transform the lineal discourse of theory in surfaces. There lies the particularity of its beauty, which is the beauty of the conceptual universe.” Vilem Flusser —Text that accompanies the artist's black and white series.

http://paseosfotograficos.wordpress.com/

Claudia Luthi is a photographer based in Lima, Peru.

Laura Jurt

http://www.laurajurt.ch/

Laura Jurt was born in 1979 in Sursee, Lucerne, Switzerland. She graduated in 2004 from the Lucerne School of Art and Design, in Visual Communication/ Illustration. She works as a freelance Illustrator in Zürich.

Ufex

Exhibition/collaborative show with Bora Tanay.

http://www.ufex.dk/

"UFEX is a digital design collective comprised of Mikkel Møller Andersen and Kasper Fjederholt, based out of London and Copenhagen respectively. They often create “analog” sculptures that are photographed and constructed in a way to make them appear inexplicably digital."

Daniel Cortez – Decertor

http://www.flickr.com/photos/decearte/

https://www.instagram.com/decertor

Felipe Rocha

http://cargocollective.com/flpr

Felipe Rocha (1990) is a graphic designer based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a student at Mackenzie, a traditional university in Sao Paulo, and for the past 3 years he has been collecting experience as a self trained designer in commercial design while producing at the same time a regular body of personal work. "The Hello Hair girl is my mother, I found this old photo at home a while ago and I decided to use it when a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to contribute to her completion work—where the theme was hair."

Matt Root

1. The Red and Green Blues, 2005. oil and enamel on panel. 33" x 49"
2. Mexico City, 2006. oil and enamel on panel. 33" x 49"
3. Basketball Court in Plantation Ruins, 2007. oil and enamel on board. 33" x 49"

http://www.mattroot.com/

Matt Root lives and works in Tucson, AZ. He graduated in 2005 with a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.

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Frau Franz

http://www.fraufranz.com/

Aisha Franz also known as "Frau Franz was born in Fürth, Germany in 1984 where she was named after an elephant from TV. Now she lives in Kassel where she studies Visual Communication at the Art School. She wants to become an illustrator and comic artist." Follow her latest projects on Flickr.

Bas Zoontjens

Attack, 30x40 cm acrylic & oil on Panel 2009
Dusk till Dust, 100 x 80 cm 2008

http://artnews.org/baszoontjens

—Contemporary art has been marked with the synthesis of various forms of art. Especially, the combination of film, sound, digital art, acrylic, oil and collage have resulted in an almost new form of art. However, it sometimes is also possible to replicate profound synthesis by just using the canvas and paint. The canvas can be used to project ideas that do not belong to the present, the past or the future, but to project thoughts that are not bound by the confinements of time and space.
—Bas Zoontjens is one such artist who creates spectacular effects on the canvas without using a lot of technology. The simplicity of his techniques is contrasted with the images and ideas that go with his painting. A look at his paintings takes the viewer on a journey through space, time and a dimension that humans still have to learn of. Bas is a Dutch artist who shuttles between Rotterdam and Berlin. After having graduated from the Royal Academy of Art & Design (1998) and the Grafic Lyceum Eindhoven, he received several stipends and grants from many Dutch institutions.
—Bas’ art almost takes the viewer to a different universe and a different reality, where one’s own world and subjective reality may seem unreal and out of place.
—Jaiyant Cavale

Bas Zoontjens was born in 1970 in Goirle, Netherlands. He lives and works in Rotterdam/Berlin, Germany.

Wyne Veen

http://www.wyneveen.com/

Wyne Veen's photography often "portraits ordinary objects arranged in a mute oddness. Devoid of excess, the sensuous depiction of otherwise unseen objects bathes them with charismatic elegance and underlines the futility of beauty and the relative nature of vanity".

—Why do you spend so much time in bugetstores? (Asked by Onequestioninterview).

Because I appreciate the cheap factory effort that has been put into the products. The objects smell, have sharp edges, aren't suited for their function or are just extremely useless in general, they have ugly colors and you can break them in a split-second. All of this makes them quite tragic but also absurd and funny. The products are never really original, always some half baked reproduction of an existing product from a big(ger) brand. Therefore they reflect a small amount of pretence but not a very credible one. The right kind of failure can be so precious. It shows the passing of time and effort, while something flawless only shows you that it is finished.

She is represented by House of Orange. FInd her also at Myspace / Flickr.

Toby Tam

Madeleine / detail
water color, 55cm*55cm

http://www.tobytam.com/

1987 born in Hunan of China, presently living in Shanghai. Toby Tam is a chinese artist and editor of the online magazine CERTAIN. Find him also on Flickr / Myspace / Facebook.

via Rui Tenreiro's blog.

Wim Bosch

http://www.wimbosch.nl/

—Wim Bosch composes his pictures digitally from various photographs of his own and other illustrations; from home decorating magazines or from the Internet. 
As in painting, the empty, white surface forms the point of departure for the illusion of a reality reproduced in photography consisting primarily of independent pictorial elements. 
Though the individual components come together in a coherent order, 
the various perspectives, effects of light and shadow and the colour accentuations create an atmosphere of unreality and artificiality closely approaching photorealistic effects. A few details - a missing shadow, breaks in perspective or spatial relations that are not completely logical – reveal the constructed nature of the pictorial context which is nonetheless sealed off and held together by a homogeneous surface as an “outer skin”.

—The impression is that an extraordinary event has just taken place here. As at the scene of a crime, 
something that has happened seems to be concentrated here, and the viewer attempts to investigate, but without being able to find enough clues about it. The point is therefore not so much to link the pictorial worlds to an external reality as to discover relationships and contradictions within the picture.
—Dr. Christoph Kivelitz - October 2005 MKgalerie

Wim Bosch lives and works in Groningen, The Netherlands.

Nina Saunders

1. Never, 1999
2. Sincerely yours, 2007
3. Pure thought, 1996
4. Delicate landscape, 2009

http://www.ninasaunders.eu/

—The cushion bulges have a transformational function, since they can alienate otherwise familiar objects. My work moves between the field of beauty / ugliness, comfort / exclusion, home equity / alienation.
—Chairs are designed to support the human body and thus we identify with them. And as furniture supports specific environments and convey messages about the user's status, ambition and even the sex, age and employment. They have an enormous expressive potential.
—Humor is so important. Ironically, I have had my best laugh in a hospital just before an operation.
—Interviewed in danish by Matilde Digmann.

Born in 1958 in Odense, Denmark, Nina Saunders was trained in Central St Martin's and has since 1975 lived and worked in London. She works with "mutated furniture that has been deprived of their original function, rooms that with her radical intervention are allocated social or ideological statements".

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Some images retouched by thescienceofdesign.