Chantelle Brown Young by NikosArt
Li Tianbing born: Guilin, China, 1974
Lives and works in: Paris, France and Beijing, China
Realistic drawings of ice, water and the weather by Zaria Forman
Zaria Forman is an artist from Brooklyn, New York. When you look at Zaria’s work you might think they’re photographs, but when you take a closer look you’ll see they’re actually drawings. I’m amazed by how realistic Zaria’s work is, for instance the reflection of light on the waves looks superb. With her drawings Zaria documents the shifting landscape of our planet and the effects of progressive climate change. Will art one day be the only memory we have left of our planet’s nature?
Adrian Tranquilli born 1966 is one of the most interesting artists on the Italian contemporary art scene. Tranquili wanted to focus less on the superpowers and more on their human fragility of some of our most beloved heroes such as Batman, Superman, Wolverine and Spider-Man. He shows us the rarely seen, vulnerable side of our favorite superheroes.
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Yee Soo-Kyung: Picking Up the Pieces
Yee Soo-Kyung’s sculptures command attention even amid the baroque decor of Germany’s Oranienbaum Palace, where her solo show, “Broken Whole,” was held in 2009. The sculptures’ looming and vaguely anthropomorphic forms imply an almost threatening sort of movement, as they are like teatime bogeymen that have come to raid the cupboards for more pottery. However, they also conjure up more pleasant imagery, like the bubble bath sculptures mothers sometimes build on top of children’s heads mid-shampoo. To join the fragments to one another, Kyung employs a technique similar to Japanese kintsugi, in which cracks are mended with gold-lacquer resin and effectively made into decorative elements in their own right. She uses epoxy and gold leaf to the same effect, emphasizing cracks and imperfections to lend embellishment to her already voluptuous sculptures.
Yee Soo-Kyung is represented by Almine Rech Gallery, in Europe and Ota Fine Arts, in Japan, and she was recently nominated for the 2012 Korea Artist Prize by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. To view more of her work, visit her website at www.yeesookyung.com.