Yearly Archives: 2015
Fine lines and dots Tattoos by Bicem Sinik
One can’t help but be reminded of Dr. Woo’s style, when viewing these tattoos by Bicem Sinik. Similar to Woo, the Istanbul, Turkey-based artist infuses geometric shapes into her works and her monochromatic fine lines stand out for their minimalistic quality. While geometric animals seems to be her forte, we can’t help but notice the subtle use of black dots she adds to each of her pieces. It gives her works more depth, barely noticeable shading that brings out a three-dimensional feel. Lately, these types of elegant tattoos have become all the rage, despite the fact that they don’t last very long. As Marie Terry of Tattoo Artist London states, “With the rise of dotwork and linework, these discreet tattoos have become a kind of fashion, in spite of their potential short life as healing and time would make them less visible.” Read more Fine lines and dots Tattoos by Bicem Sinik
Psychological landscapes by Alex Gross
The existential vacuum is the psychological landscape that Alex Gross presents in Future Tense. A lengthy parade of characters lost in their cell phones, iPads and computers find themselves in worlds of neon-lit supermarkets, billboard infested metropolises, and naturalistic countryside panoramas. Most of his characters appear bored and distracted. His work exposes the result of corporate-dictated mass culture and our inability to be present and interact with the real world. Alex Gross’ paintings remind us, through a blend of symbolic and literal elements, that it is impossible to escape the domination of corporations and consumerism. Read more Psychological landscapes by Alex Gross
PNL – Pegazusok Nem Léteznek
Music it’s dead. Too many times too many people stated this to matter anymore. I gave up on music lately because everything sound like something I already heard and I’m pretty bored. And tired.
Pegazusok Nem Léteznek it’s a relatively new Hungarian band and reminds me of Nine Inch Nails, respectively How to Destroy Angels. Pop music. Modern, consistent pop music, not that fancy lemonade!
It’s a little bit gloomy, a little bit indie, electronic and sometimes shoe gazing – or meditative if you prefer, minimalist, but catchy. It’s a strange dream, but you don’t wanna wake up from it.
Eszter Ács – vocals and keyboards, Domokos Lázár – guitar and vocals, Lázár Ágoston – drums and Róbert Németh – bass guitar find something beautiful, something of their own.
I stumbled into them accidentally while I was digging up news about one of my old favorites: Európa kiadó. Read more PNL – Pegazusok Nem Léteznek
Pietro Sedda’s Twisted Tattoos
Italian tattoo artist Pietro Sedda brings a strange new perspective to portrait tattoos by smearing the faces of his subjects across his human canvas. The result has a psychological element to it, and because of the realistic nature of the tattoos, a surrealist effect is created. The technique gives his portraits an inhuman appeal. The act of morphing the faces seems to bring out the personality of the characters. Suddenly, a facial expression that ordinarily would have been viewed as friendly and engaging becomes threatening or disturbing. Sedda’s portrait tattoos have a darker element than those of other artists’, because it is not only the subject’s facial expressions that give meaning to the design; the simple act of warping the faces creates a secondary level of symbolism. Read more Pietro Sedda’s Twisted Tattoos
Personal Saints by Raluca Bararu
The story of the Saints series began with one drawing for a group exhibit at Vatra Collective. It was suppose to be about monsters and I discovered, while doodling in-between , that monsters were for me, at that particular time, social norms. So I decided to slay some by playing with pen and paper. In the end the Saints came out to be all the inappropriate answers to those norms. Read more Personal Saints by Raluca Bararu
Abstract and Surrealist Tattoo Art by Marcin Surowiec
Marcin Surowiec’s tattoo designs are the kind of art that you would expect to find on an album cover for an electronic musician, but it looks fantastic as tattoo designs simply because it is so different from the run-of-the-mill tattoo designs that predominate tattoo culture. Read more Abstract and Surrealist Tattoo Art by Marcin Surowiec
Surreal Optical Illusions Photography
Erik Johansson is a Swedish photographer and artist. His work consist to mix hundreds of photos to make a hyper realistic, but totally illusory final assembly. Erik provokes, breaks rules and plays up with the viewer’s mind. Read more Surreal Optical Illusions Photography
Street and Urban Art
Ice-Creams Paintings by Iraqi artist Othman Toma
Iraqi artist Othman Toma creates these paintings using melted ice-creams. If you look at his site he usually draws with pencils or paints with watercolours, these paintings are proof that you can produce art in a variety of unconventional ways. There are some out there that say that these paintings, could not have been painted with the ice-creams, Othman says that, that is what he used as his paint, maybe next time he should do a time lapse video to prove them wrong. Read more Ice-Creams Paintings by Iraqi artist Othman Toma
