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Jon Koko is an artist who currently lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. His square illustrations and paintings are carefully balanced scenes with mostly flat color surfaces covering the full paper canvas. The subjects are landscapes and houses in axonometric views, interiors and several slightly … Read More
In French, the word trumeau defines the central pillar of a portal in a gothic architecture, but it also indicates, more generically, the wall space between two windows; after the 18th Century: the mirror hung in the corresponding space. From this meaning, the term goes to define a widespread furniture typical of the 18th century, consisting of … Read More
Gianni De Luca was an Italian comic book artist known for his drawing mastery and the variety of techniques he introduced into the comic art. His works are formally revolutionary, but always for the sake of content: the representation of the movement, the solutions in the board’s layouts, the cancellation of the cartoon scanning for the “table-sequence”, … Read More
After the death of her parents, wealthy Josabeth Sjöberg (1812-1882), formerly daughter of a clerk in a Swedish government department, became poor and was obliged to work as a governess and music teacher in high bourgeois homes in 19th Century Stockholm. As a technically unsophisticated, yet meticulous watercolourist, Mademoiselle Sjöberg used her free time to carefully portray the everyday life of the … Read More
Tony Bevan is a British artist who currently lives and works in London. The architectural spaces in his paintings are described by thickly painted lines of only one color for each work, lines which appear in deep contrast with the clear background. Constructions take shape on canvas through a reduced language composed by silhouettes of … Read More
Ryan Whelan is an artist and graphic designer based in Oakland, California. His works (made in collaboration with Liz Hernández) are produced with a variety of techniques ranging from printmaking, painting and drawing and often include very ordinary objects like stairs, bottles, pots, scaffolding. In some cases, the objects are used as metaphors of interpersonal bond with … Read More
Herbert Bayer was a prolific graphic designer and typography designer who also worked as a sculptor and a painter and who produced architectural projects mostly inspired by his research in graphic design. In 1925, he became a teacher at the Bauhaus after having been a student under Kandinsky. In 1946 he moved to Aspen in … Read More
Ben Kafton‘s screenprints and drawings depict clear architectural and landscape themes (fractured buildings, disconnected planes, reliefs) or pure geometric compositions (diagrams, grids…) echoing Bauhaus or Dutch design. Through various techniques such as perspective projections and collages of textures and color shapes, the young artist from Salt Lake City creates works that come and go between realism and abstraction. … Read More
Andrew G. Fisher is an artist who opens a constant relationship between two media, photography and illustration. Time is frozen in black and white snapshots, squared frames of a reality in which the human presence is absent at present time, but survives through its traces. The same scenes are reduced to a simpler geometry, traced … Read More
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