Oliver Haidutschek

 

http://aotooouchi.tumblr.com

"In the time of post internet art, an understanding in pure digital media consumption/ production/ redistribution and the philosophy of object-oriented ontology is what frames my field of work. What you see is what you get is the title of my latest work of representation and recontextualisation of "objects" or "pictures" in a "picture". We are used to see "real" sculptures as pictures in the net, we rarely go there and walk around and look at a sculpture. Instead we flick through masses of pictures online every day. This work is about the question of our validation of mass and reality."

Via http://www.ofluxo.net/

Joana Vasconcelos

http://www.joanavasconcelos.com/

Hanoi Martinez Leon

The sunset of the great mountain, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm

Hanoi Martinez León was born in Havana city, Cuba on August 1st , 1973. He lives now in Medellin, Colombia. http://cubanpainter.blogspot.com/
via saatchi.

Steven B. Smith

http://www.stevesmithphotography.net/

"Steven B. Smith‘s Close to Nature and The Weather and a Place to Live “chronicle the transition of the Western landscape into suburbia.” They are studies of the ridiculous ways that man interacts with nature, by turn extraordinarily strange, funny and depressing in their bleakness. The man-meets-nature-and-produces-weirdness thing is not exactly uncommon, but I think Smith has a very keen compositional eye and does not go for the obvious subjects, often focusing in on the more easily overlooked details. A great trip into American suburbia that makes you want to go back for more but to never, ever live there."

By and via eyecurious.

Vincent Olinet

1. Pas encore mon histoire, 2008 (Not yet my story)
2. Je vous aimes tous, 2006 (I love you all)
3. Rouge Santa Barbara, 2009 (Santa Barbara lipstick)
4. L'or forgé a la main (Hand forged gold) 2004
5. Je ne peux pas faire des miracles (I can't make miracles) III, 2007.

http://www.vincentolinet.com/

"The artist's intent is to subvert and play with roles, matter and dimensions. Olinet's fascination for childhood and fairytale, both classic and Walt Disney's, allows him to create fantastical sculptures which are simultaneously attractive and repulsive. His drums recall, from their shape and colour, a playful and circus-like atmosphere, but also hide a darker side to their creation, insomuch as the artist himself defines them as "martial".—Giulio Cattaneo

Vince Olinet (1981) lives and works in Brussels and Singapore.
Some images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Jimmy Turrell

Jimmy Turrell is a graphic artist based in London. He studied at Liverpool School of Art and then Central St Martins. He combines a love of handmade collage, drawing, screen printing and painting alongside digital techniques. Follow his latest projects on Facebook / Twitter / Blogger

Sema Bekirovic

As one of the reasons for the existence of Skyscrapers is the maximization of space where land is scarce, as in the centres of big cities, to see them in the middle of a deserted landscape renders them as estranged animals out of their habitat and therefore has me thinking once again of gigantic still lifes, mute constructions and artificial realities..

http://www.semabekirovic.nl/

"Sema Bekirovic creates photographs, videos and installations which capture the friction created by the chances of nature and design of culture. In some works she plays with the tension between gaining and letting go of control; creating situations in which things can occur or happen spontaneously, and letting chance decide how the work will develop. In other works she presents nature as something beyond control - that which we try so hard to control by means of culture. She considers photography an organic medium that can be shaped in many directions as long as the images don’t show what is, but what might be."

Sea Hyun Lee

'These are paintings of a lost past, of disappearing landscapes and eroding memories. “The landscape no longer exists, and so I have to paint it,” Lee explains. But his paintings are never simply about the longing to recover the past. They are, instead, about the very process of reconstitution itself.'
http://www.union-gallery.com/

born in Geoje Island, S. Korea, 1967. Lives and works in London.

Josef Frank

(Austria, 1885 - Sweden, 1967)

Architect, designer, and theorist, his work is closely identified with the Swedish Modern aesthetic that emerged in 1930s and was widely admired in the decades following the Second World War. Educated in Vienna he worked on architecture and interiors and after the war he entered academic life, becoming Professor of Building Design at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule in 1919, a post he held until 1925. From 1921 to 1924 he worked alongside Peter Behrens, Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Straad, and Oskar Wlach on the design of Viennese apartment buildings and, in the following year, founded the Haus und Garten interior design firm.

But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was pluralism, not uniformity, that most characterized life in the new machine age. He called instead for a more humane modernism, one that responded to people's everyday needs and left room for sentimentality and historical influences.

In 1932 he made contact with Estrid Ericson, the founder of Stockholm furnishings firm Svenskt Tenn, and two years later emigrated to Sweden where he would work as a chief designer for the company until his death 33 years later. His work came to define Swedish (or Scandinavian) modern design, producing colorful, cozy, and eclectic designs that provided a refreshing alternative to the architectural mainstream of the day and presaged the coming revolt against modernism in the 1960s. Source.

Buy them at:
http://www.svenskttenn.se/
http://justscandinavian.com

Klas Herbert

Klas Herbert Ernflo. b.Sweden.
Freelancing in Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.klasherbert.com
via http://www.thestylepress.net/
Poster. Illustration.

Katsuki Tanaka

'Optical flood of poetic euphoria from another dimension. This is pure utopia.'
Virtual drug, computer graphics series.
http://altovision.tv/

La Geometrie

'Abrupt', montages photographiques, prises de vues réalisées en Corse.
http://lageometrie.free.fr/
La Geometrie is Jeremy Perrodeau, b.1988 Paris, France. École Estienne Paris, Bts Communication Visuelle Graph/Edit/Pub.

Francis Fuerst

"Photographer Francis Fuerst made this series about an "imaginative cobbler's daughter named Assuntina, who had always wanted to be a dancer" in the surroundings of San Gimignano in Italy. Time-Life Magazine, 1947

via http://www.beikey.net/