Street art by Eyescam
Related links
Eyesaw website – eyesaw.bigcartel.com/
Eyesaw on Flickr – www.flickr.com/photos/eye-saw
Neon Lit Acrylic Collection from www.pimpartworks.com
PimpArtworks cutting edge Acrylic artworks come complete with backlit neon Lighting.
The customised LED lighting has 8 changeable neon lighting effects via a RGB controller, including a rainbow effect which gradually cycles through all the electrifying colours.
Set it to your preference or let it cycle. Whatever option it will back light your artwork & wall in style.
These are limited. Once they are gone, they are gone…
Related link
See the whole Neon Lit Acrylic Collection – www.pimpartworks.com/artists_neon
Press the button project
Press the button is an urban project to awaken the minds of cold pedestrian, is a rise of freedom for all citizens who want to smile in the morning, in the afternoon in the night but always in the street…
“We are Pauer and Octavi two students from Barcelona. Right now we are doing an erasmus in Slovenia, in case you are mediterranean and you go on erasmus to the Balkans you do a lot of things but not study, so all the time we used to spend studying in the past now we spend it doing more creative stuff.
We have done some projects but the last one we did, has made us think that maybe we are not a dumb and we can do something in life…”
Press the button project from Pauer on Vimeo.
Related link
The Press The Button project website – wwww.pressthebuttonproject.tk
Joram Roukes & Sean Madden at Signal gallery
I managed to get to see the current group show at Signal gallery and I am glad I did. The shows called Mixed doubles presents works from Dan Baldwin, John Squire, Andrew Mc Attee, Sean Madden and Joram Roukes.
While I am familiar with the first three artists mentioned, I did not know much about the two latter ones – Sean Madden and Joram Roukes and what a shame that is as these two have got very strong and powerful works on display.
Joram Roukes – oil on canvas
Like Dan Baldwin, Joram Roukes does figurative paintings but unlike Baldwin’s works, Roukes’ color palette is lighter making the whole composition a lot less intense. But looking at what those paintings depict – series of layered figures, completely at random – you get for example what looks like a human body but with a bear’s head or a dog’s one, looks closer and you will notice the back stabbed with the back of an aircraft on fire; Joram Roukes’ paintings also have got an intensity in them.
You will have got it by now, Joram Roukes work will probably appear ridiculous to some but also and most probably like a joy for more people. Funny and intriguing could summarize what this is all about.
Sean Madden – bronze sculpture
I did not pay much attention to this artist when I first read about this show, I could blame on the gallery for actually not mentioning an awful lot about him but I should have made my own research so we call it a draw. We are looking here at sculptures work. Not a fan of these type of work, Sean Madden is certainly one of these artists that will make you like sculpture or at least take a closer look at it.
His sculptures for this show are tiny but yet so powerful. The display put together by Signal definitely does some good to emphasize the beauty of these sculptures. When you spot them, you cannot stop looking at them. What could be an angel is hanging above the other sculptures and give the whole installation a mystical dimension.
I have also included pictures of some of Andrew Mc Attee’s and John Squire’s artworks
The show runs until the 5th March 2011
Related links
Joram Rouke’s website – joramroukes.blogspot.com
Sean Madden’s website – http://contemporarybronze.com
Japanese designs from the 1920's/30's
I stumbled upon these very singular graphic design pieces from 1920s and 1930s, they all come from Japan and are characteristic of what the country was experiencing: a massive social change.
I have collected below a selection of posters, mag covers and advertisements which gives you a very good insight of where the Japanese society was heading to: modern industry and technology. Western art and culture influences can be felt in those pieces as well as a growing incline towards a leftist political thought.
Is it me or some of that stuff reminds of a certain Shepard Fairey?
[Source: “Modernism on Paper: Japanese Graphic Design of the 1920s-30s”, (published 2003)]