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Artwork of the week #1 “Anonymous” by Lukas Brezak...

Thu, 31 May 2012 14:26:00 +0300

Artwork of the week #1

“Anonymous” by Lukas Brezak from Prisoners Collection

from now on, every Thursday we’ll be posting the “Artwork of the week”

Mowgli Omari collages for more visit this link

Thu, 31 May 2012 10:24:00 +0300

Mowgli Omari

collages

for more visit this link

Jake Fried (b.1984) lives and works in Boston. Primarily known...

Thu, 24 May 2012 23:05:00 +0300

Jake Fried

(b.1984) lives and works in Boston. Primarily known for his paintings, Fried is currently working on a series of short films, or ‘moving paintings’. He has been an Educator and Community Liaison for The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since 2007. His website

Sounds of Aronofsky by kogonada Darren Aronofsky was born...

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:18:00 +0300

Sounds of Aronofsky

by kogonada

Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film, “Supermarket Sweep”, starring Sean Gullette, which went on to becoming a National Student Academy Award finalist. Aronofsky didn’t make a feature film until five years later, in February 1996, where he began creating the concept for Pi (1998). After Darren’s script for Pi (1998) received great reactions from friends, he began production. The film re-teamed Aronofsky with Gullette, who played the lead. This went on to further successes, such as Requiem for a Dream (2000) and, most recently, the American remake of the Japanese film series “Kozure okami” (1973) (aka “Lone Wolf & Cub”). (text source imdb.com)

1998 - Pi (director, producer, writer)
2000 - Requiem for a Dream (director, writer)
2002 - Below (producer, writer)
2006 - The Fountain (director, writer)
2008 - The Wrestler (director, producer)
2010 - Black Swan (director, producer)
2010 - The Fighter (producer)
2014 - Noah (director, producer, writer)

read more on wiki

The Laughter first solo exhibition of Peter Eramian May 31st –...

Tue, 22 May 2012 19:05:00 +0300

The Laughter

The Death of the Mother / video still

The Green Line Rollercoaster / 50x60cm

Moon Church / 25x25cm

The Laughter

first solo exhibition of Peter Eramian

May 31st – June 21st 2012
Private view: May 30th 2012, 20:00

Omikron Gallery is delighted to announce Peter Eramian’s first solo exhibition “The Laughter”. The exhibition will be on show from 31 May until 21 June 2012.

The exhibition is centred on a recreation and tribute to the satirical newspaper Laughter (Γέλιο) that was published in Cyprus by George A. Fasouliotis during the period 1928 -1938, a rough and troubled historical moment for the island during its time under British colonial rule. The newspaper was an inspiration for Peter Eramian, as he is both an artist and publisher, who believes that the current times also demand such brave and fearless critique.

Eramian’s edition consists of six satirical articles that pose hypothetical but serious questions.

What would happen “if Mother died”?
What is the truth behind the tragic events at Mari?
How could we possible solve the problem of corruption in Cyprus?
Who is the real Queen Elisabeth II?
What is the Nicosia airport destined to be?
Why would a church be built on the moon?…

The artist wonders through texts, videos, photographs and digital collages whether today’s art could be expressed as a purely socio-political action.

Peter Eramian was born in 1984 in Nicosia (Cyprus). He lives and works between London and Nicosia. In 2007 he graduated from Goldsmiths College with a degree in Fine Art and History of Art after which he completed his postgraduate degree in Philosophy at Birkbeck. He is co-founding editor and publisher of Shoppinghour magazine in London and The Cyprus Dossier in Cyprus. In 2010 he worked at Fabrica (Italy) for 6 months. He has participated in group exhibitions and festivals in New York, San Fransisco, London, Liverpool, Vancouver, Geneva, Toijala.

Opening Hours
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For more information, please contact Maria Stathi | Director
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Division by Johan Rijpma A piece of paper is divided by hand...

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:23:00 +0300

Division

by Johan Rijpma

A piece of paper is divided by hand into an even number of pieces and then reassembled.
A photograph of this finished composition is then printed and divided again.
This makes the impossible possible, tearing the now included empty spaces that make up the tears in the paper. This feedback division process is repeated while the number of imprecise manual divisions gradually increase. Everything is created by division

Balance from 1989 we have shared this video some time ago, but...

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:46:00 +0300

Balance

from 1989

we have shared this video some time ago, but not as an official blog post. so here it is, for you that missed it…

Balance won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. It’s from Germany and was directed and produced by the twin brothers Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein.

Gig Posters well i want to introduce you to this amazing book...

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:19:00 +0300

www.burlesquedesign.com

www.emek.net

www.jagmo.com

www.jermainerogers.com

www.thesilentgiants.com

www.thesilentgiants.com

www.thesilentgiants.com

Gig Posters

well i want to introduce you to this amazing book (which as soon as i will finish this post i’m going here to order it…)

Here are more than 700 extraordinary posters from the archives of GigPosters.com — the Internet’s premier destination for concert poster art. With the rising popularity of MP3 files and streaming digital music—and the near-extinction of traditional album art—concert posters have become the most important visual representation of contemporary music.

Gig Posters Volume I celebrates this dynamic medium with contributions from 101 top designers—including Rob Jones of Animal Rummy, Steve Walters, Jay Ryan, Gary Houston, Aesthetic Apparatus, Patent Pending Industries, and many more. Throughout the book, their voices offer fascinating commentary and behind-the-scenes information about the creation of gig posters.

Readers will also discover 101 perforated and ready-to-frame posters promoting today’s most innovative and original bands—including Radiohead, the White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Girl Talk, Queens of the Stone Age, Wilco, and many, many more. (text source amazon.com)

*posters posted here might not all be in this volume 1 Gig Posters book

Klaus Rinke …was born in Wattenscheid, Germany in...

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:01:00 +0300

Klaus Rinke

…was born in Wattenscheid, Germany in 1939.
From 1974 to 2005 he was teaching at the School of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf.

RInke’s work includes drawing, photography, sculpture and performance which each experiment corresponds to a specific period of his life of discoveries.. (Greece, Japan, Australia, US…)

The work of Klaus Rinke addresses and contends with the ideas that concern us all: they emphasize the ties maintained between the individual and the outside world — time, space, and man’s place in the Universe..

Klaus Rinke September 19, 1973

Salvador Dali May 11 and Salvador would celebrate his 108th...

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:56:00 +0300

Salvador Dali

May 11 and Salvador would celebrate his 108th birthday!

“Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali I Domenech was born at 8:45 on the morning of May 11, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain. Figueres is located in the foothills of the Pyrenees, only sixteen miles from the French border in the principality of Catalonia. The son of a prosperous notary, Dali spent his boyhood in Figueres and at the family’s summer home in the coastal fishing village of Cadaques where his parents built his first studio. As an adult, he made his home with his wife Gala in nearby Port Lligat. Many of his paintings reflect his love of this area of Spain.

The young Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali’s talent came with his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1925. He became internationally known when three of his paintings, including The Basket of Bread(now in the Museum’s collection), were shown in the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928 . . .more”

Salvador’s creative thinking technique

Salvador Dali / Mike Wallace interview 1958

N+M science magazine Naturwissenschaft und Medizin designed by...

Thu, 10 May 2012 12:07:00 +0300

N+M science magazine

Naturwissenschaft und Medizin designed by German graphic designer and typographer Erwin Poell during the 60s-70s. Subtly appealing and well thought out, these make science look good.

shared by Ekusupo’s Flickr

“I share these as one of the best examples of graphic design as a methodic communications system I am aware of. Engaging and varied, as singles or as a set work tremendously well. The inside of the magazine may be considered disappointing if you want more of the same as the cover - but actually is delightful simple. The cover does its job really well selling the contents while the contents is true unto itself.”
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the first cover reminds me of something… hm…
the following conversation had occur in our fan page on facebook when we asked if anyone knew if there was an association with Nicosia (Cyprus) map…

Andreas Constantinou Maybe its referring to the twin city of Nicosia, Palmanova. The walls were designed by the same architect but with less mistakes than the ones built in Nicosia previously (ie. the central square and all the roads from the bastions leading to it that were not done in Nicosia)!
Gzt~ could be! thank you!
Gzt~ actually this must be it. thank you for the information!
Andreas Constantinou You are welcome! :) And while talking about Nicosia… https://www.facebook.com/VisitNicosia
Costa Constanti it is Palmanova! The Dutch, Croats and Czechs were inspire by Julio Savorgnano who built the Nicosia walls. The book cover you show was inspired however by Palmanova, after the illustrator visited Nicosia, and wondered why they didn’t plan it better within the walls. The truth is that old Nicosia was already there, the walls came later, as opposed to the other fortresses etc

also check this out if you are interested to know about the star fort of these cities

Cuba a spot by Umut Kebabci and Uluc Kecik for KLM the ninth...

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:25:00 +0300

Cuba

a spot by Umut Kebabci and Uluc Kecik for KLM

the ninth also the final of a monthly travel video project to promote KLM destinations on facebook

song recorded live “El Carretero” by Buena Vista Social Club performed by El Sonador
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even though the weather didn’t let us enjoy of a much sun today, we still know that summer moments are not far! so enjoy this summerish video, and who knows, we might meet in Cuba this summer!

La femme 100 têtes / The hundred headless woman … is...

Mon, 07 May 2012 22:24:00 +0300

* must watch video that follows

* must watch video that follows

Max Ernst in his room

La femme 100 têtes / The hundred headless woman

… is the first of a series, collage novel by Max Ernst published in 1929.

It was a kind of comic strip, but not a real comic book, selecting fragments of wood engravings from nineteenth-century magazines, encyclopaedias and trivial novels. Some collages parody famous works of art. The newly forged combinations of scientific instruments and floating figures and of landscapes with unexpected interiors guarantee the odd dream world identified so closely with Surrealism.

at the video that follows we will see the work of Eric Duvivier. A 19-minute film from 1967 based on the series of collages Ernst created under that title in 1929, precursors to his collage masterwork Une semaine de bonté (A Week of Kindness) 1934.

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a reference on Une Semaine de Bonté (A Week of Kindness) by Max Ernst

Mix Tape by Big Scary video by Alice Dupre

Sat, 05 May 2012 14:52:00 +0300

Mix Tape

by Big Scary

video by Alice Dupre

Two For the Road an interesting presentation, of photographs...

Thu, 03 May 2012 22:09:00 +0300

Two For the Road

an interesting presentation, of photographs taken by various artists (could be you).

James Turnley created this kind of project, that you can submit your work. your images will be presented next to another artist’s image, creating an interesting composition, as if the images look alike.

visit website to see more

gzt.ic on fb

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:00:00 +0300

gzt.ic on fb: if you want to follow us feel free to do so.. you can find us...

The Honor Code directed by Katy Chevigny If we change the way...

Tue, 01 May 2012 15:19:00 +0300

The Honor Code

directed by Katy Chevigny

If we change the way we think about honor, could we make the world a better place? Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah proves we can in The Honor Code.

Join the conversation and tweet #HONORCODE to have your tweet featured on the Focus Forward website. Go to this link to see the discussion.

Check out more films in the Focus Forward series here

An ArtsEngine, Inc. Production

EDITED BY - Gabriel Rhodes
MUSIC COMPOSED BY - John Kimbrough
ANIMATION BY - Ace & Son Moving Picture Company
ANIMATION DIRECTOR - Richard O’Connor
DESIGN/LEAD ANIMATOR - Kelsey Stark
ADDITIONAL ANIMATION - Liesje Kraai
PRODUCTION ARTIST - Dee Mackey
CAMERA - William Rexer II
SOUND - John Zecca
RESEARCHER - Danielle Varga
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT - Justine Pierce

Lumerence by Miwa Matreyek music “Quite” by...

Tue, 01 May 2012 14:32:00 +0300

Lumerence

by Miwa Matreyek

music “Quite” by Careful
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also watch by Miwa

“Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. Take a quiet 10 minutes and dive in. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin and Mileece.

Miwa Matreyek creates performances where real shapes and virtual images trade places, amid layers of animation, video and live bodies.” more on TED (TED Global 2010 performance)

DA FUNK Daft Punk x Jay & Silent Bob video by Jules Tardy

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:44:00 +0300

DA FUNK

Daft Punk x Jay & Silent Bob

video by Jules Tardy

Cecelia & Her Selfhood a video for Villagers by Adrien...

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:32:00 +0300

Cecelia & Her Selfhood

a video for Villagers by Adrien Merigeau

“Nothing explains the film better than the film itself. Nonetheless, here is a concise and vaguely pretentious synopsis:

The film charts the development of a young man as he navigates his way through an impressionistic landscape in search of an elusive monster which is intent on destroying his childhood home. Lost and confused for the most part, he nonetheless uncovers the beast; a creature whose origins are both terrifying and liberating.”
-Villagers