SILENCE

Aili Schmeltz (b.1975, USA)

Born and raised in the suburban Midwest, installation artist and sculptor Aili Schmeltz currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She obtained an MFA from the University of Arizona and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work exposes the manifest juxtaposition between her upbringing in the Midwest and her temperamental adopted city, Los Angeles. Schmeltz makes the claim that striving for utopia is just as utopian as the physical place or the paradisiacal goal realized. But the building remnants strip the hybridized structures of their naiveté, and consequently, they look less like futuristic possibility and more like fallen monuments of idealism. (src. APT Global) © All images courtesy of the artist

Mondo Okumura aka Mondo-kun (Japan)

Mondo Okumura aka Mondo-kun, a gifted 10 year old Fukuoka artist, has been drawing since he was three. He has never taken art lessons and his line-drawing style is completely self-developed. Mondo-kun was inspired to start drawing portraits – especially of world-famous musicians including David Bowie, John Lennon and Bob Marley – by his father’s extensive record collection. In April 2013, his musician father, who goes by the name Bogggey, challenged his talented son to draw one portrait every day, selected by Dad, and post it on their father-son blog. Challenge accepted, Mondo-kun has been doing exactly that for over a year and his blog now gets over 40,000 hits per day. It also led to him publishing his book, Mondo-kun, and picking up part-time work as cover designer and illustrator for the magazine Yoreyore. (src. Time Out Tokyo) © All images courtesy of the artist

Neomaleficis I (anti-portrait)

Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son