Yet another Friday has arrived and so has another kick ass Top 10 List.
Koen Hauser Works and lives in Amsterdam. His surreal digital manipulations are sometimes subtle, sometimes pushing at the boundaries of reality. His photos exude an alien quality through distorted notions of human beauty and behaviour.
GENERAL STATEMENT
Official video of the new Charlotte Gainsbourg's single, in duo with Beck. Directed by Keith Schofield.
Check out more work by Keith Schofield HERE
About Le Creative Sweatshop
NDEUR (Mathieu Missiaen) This French autodidact began exhibiting his paintings, sculptures and installations when he was 22, and then also worked on furniture design for several French clients. He moved to Canada in 2007, and founded NDEUR. From then on, he focused on the development of NDEUR shoes, based on the customisation of vintage stilettos. Numerous international magazines were then quickly fond of his work and wrote about it in their pages (WAD, XLR8R, computer art, Miss Behave, NYLON, MTV, Fashion Television etc.). The line quickly invaded several European and international markets such as USA, United Kingdom, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Kuwait. Among others, he has collaborated with Fiat, Vans, Microsoft, and Coltesse.com, Dein-Design, as well as Peter Gatien of the brand new club Circa, in Toronto, Canada.
MAKE A PAPER WORLD (Julien Morin) Born and bred in France, he studied communication and marketing and is also a street wear connoisseur, and just got into DIY. At the end of year 2007, he launched his first Paper Toy, influenced by street culture, and thus began working with several companies (Homecore, Projet M, 667, Totum) and focused his communication strategy on paper as his main visual medium.
The Creativ Sweatshop studio has already worked on diverse projects such as a demo pack for MAMZ’HELL, a French DJ (www.myspace.com/djmamzhell), the creation of several fashion accessories for the Canadian stylist Heidi Ackerman (link to her website) and the New York photographer Tchad Muller (wall paper magazine/ link to his website). They’ve also developed an interior design DIY pack in cardboard for a broader audience, in collaboration with Paristik (link). They’ll also be showcasing their work at the Prêt à Porter tradeshow in September 2009 in Paris, in the Shibuya area and will allow visitors to participate to an interactive installation made of 15 000 paper sculptures.
Check out more of their amazing work HERE
Esra Røise about Esra Røise:
Yu's scultpures. titled "A Family in Disguise".
Yu Jinyoung portrays truth and illusions of a family with a house, the hideaway of these people, as a background. The artist's previous work expresses a portrait of humans trapped in a society, and she has moved the meeting of her work into a fence called as home. Through everyday lives of family in very limited space called home, the inner world of family is closely examined.
The family wants to turn away their eyes from all discords and indifferences that are happening in a form of home, which should be intimate the most. They refuse an exposure to the outside by hiding themselves because they don't want to show their pretentious look as a friendly family. How the alienated family disguises themselves as friendly ones is portrayed through an uncomfortable meeting with guests who attend to family events like big holidays. The children, who came to terms with reputations and bluffs of adults from guest's visitation, automatically adapt themselves to hold down their emotions. The emotion spreads so far as to a dog.
The artist used a splendid flower on wall, clothes and even shadow in order to hide sad emotions of the family. The flowers in this work may look as a beautiful decoration for welcoming guests. But an intention of the artist is that the flower is more of a concealing tool than decoration. The pattern scatters one's eye from family's gloomy face to the splendid flowers and it produces a bright atmosphere. With this, it seems as the work has changed to a splendid image from the clear and simple works in past, but the artist's intention of what to express with that face is unchanged.
Check out more work by Yu HERE
Justin lives out side of the city in a tree house, he enjoys walking though the forrest in search of other hermits, his best friend is a wombat that visits him from time to time, they discuss news and current affairs.
Ivan Puig like the contradiction, poetry, simplicity and complexity together and you can definitely see it in his art.
