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Glow in the Dark Street Art

Spanish graphic arts studio Reskate Arts & Crafts create innovative glow-in-the-dark murals. For the past few years they’ve been painting walls with photo luminescent paint that can glow for up to 12 hours after exposure to light. This means that when the lights go down, their work completely transforms, revealing surprises to the viewer.

Porsches Enjoying Life in Palm Springs

All images from the series 911 by Chris LaBrooy. After graduating from the RCA with an MA in design products, Chris first began to use 3D as a simple tool to visualise ideas for furniture and products that he could not afford to produce. As 3D technology and hardware evolved, Chris saw an opportunity to explore CGI as a creative medium in itself with which he could subvert and twist familiar everyday things into new typographic and sculptural forms. Chris is interested in the intersection between typography, architecture, product design and visual art. Chris LaBrooy has exhibited at the design museum in London and has been featured in many publications covering design, products, typography and illustration.

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Timofey Zhilin Dystopian Architectural Vision

Looking at some of Timofey Zhilin’s collages brings to mind popular photography of flamboyant architecture in the former Soviet Union by the likes of Jan Kampanaers or Frederic Chaubin. Hulled in greyscales, the artist piles and stacks brutalist landmarks on top of each other – a graphic homage to the excessive architecture of the Soviet Union.

Other works – the ones he refers to as his ‘early ones’ – merge different realities to unexpected fantasies. His Brutalic Spider might seem like a dystopian vision, but a closer look reveals an imagined world with desirable features. By assembling a habitable structure on top of artist Louise Bourgeois’ sculpture Maman (a prominent spider of monumental size), he plays on the positive attributes of the unpopular insect. In Bourgeois’ work, the spider is introduced as a maternal figure and described as ‘deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat and useful’. Zhilin laughs: ‘It’s the only contraindication for people who suffer from arachnophobia.’

Pervasive Art

After the last post JR at the Louvre we decided to prepare a another post featuring the art of JR, we previously featured his work here. He owns the biggest art gallery in the world, exhibiting freely in the streets of the world. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit.

From the artist:

JR creates “Pervasive Art” that spreads uninvited on the buildings of the slums around Paris, on the walls in the Middle-East, on the broken bridges in Africa or the favelas in Brazil. People who often live with the bare minimum discover something absolutely unnecessary. And they don’t just see it, they make it. Some elderly women become models for a day; some kids turn artists for a week. In that Art scene, there is no stage to separate the actors from the spectators.

After these local exhibitions, the images are transported to London, New York, Berlin or Amsterdam where people interpret them in the light of their own personal experience. As he remains anonymous and doesn’t explain his huge full frame portraits of people making faces, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passer-by/interpreter.

Monument Valley

Hollow Katie Paterson

From the artist:

A microcosmos of all the world’s trees.

‘Hollow’ is a new commission by the University of Bristol, made in collaboration with architects Zeller & Moye, permanently sited in the historic Royal Fort Gardens.

Spanning millions of years, ‘Hollow’ is a miniature forest of all the world’s forests, telling the history of the planet through the immensity of tree specimens in microcosm. The sculpture brings together over 10,000 unique tree species, from petrified wood fossils of the earliest forests that emerged 390 million years ago to the most recent emergent species. The samples of wood span time and space and have been sourced from across the globe, from Yakushima, Japan to the White Mountains of California. From the oldest tree in the world to some of the youngest and near-extinct species, the tree samples contain within them stories of the planet’s history and evolution through time.

Young Lions Portugal - 1st Place - DIRECTT by Maria Bessa / Rui Simões