Olivier de Sagazan

What kind of art would you expect from a man born in Congo who studied biology and philosophy and whose webpage looks like a 1994-ish serial killer portfolio? Whatever your answer is, you will not be disappointed (except if you wanted to see happy unicorns). Oliver de Sagazan paints, sculpts and performs in one style - nightmare. His creations are something between dolls, monsters, rotting corpses, mythological creatures and people. And the most horrifying realization that they're human to the most extent.

Dustin Myers - Painting

Dustin Myers might somewhere in the future considered the chronicler of our age. He uses his formal education from the university he describes as having a contemporary attitude to capture the cultural icons of todays twenty-somethings and give then a new environment. Surreal, often iconoclastic imagery of well-known characters or self-portraits that sarcastically smirk when talking about our modern image of entertainment.

Kiwilicious Jewelry #12 - Vina Rust

Artist living in Seattle creates her unique (in the means of quantity too!) constructs with noble metals. Vina Rust is faithful to her technique and style, that is visibly inspired by botany and the nature, but she claims she gets turned on (creatively speaking) by all sorts of things - Beardsley's illustration, Lalique jewelry or ethnic aesthetics. The way of creating, perforations and intricate woven designs are unmistakable with any other jeweler.

Dupludo Collective - Industrial Design

Being a great artist is hard. Being a great designer might be even harder. Why? You have to create beautiful objects that are usable by common folk, durable and possibly cheap. Yet still no one seems to care who thought about that one particular solution to the problem that they buy in a store.

But we want to change it. Yes, even in small scale. And today we write about a Russian design collective, Dupludo. The name itself comes from pronunciation of deux plus deux and their motto is "2+2=5". They work on illustration, graphic design, installations and several other things art-related in Russia and Scandinavia.

Classic Artist of the Week #12 - Amedeo Modigliani

A man is being born in a wealthy family. Sickly, introvert child with a passion of painting, in his agony dreaming about seeing the Renaissance masters. Yet, contrary to all common sense, he recovers, grows up, travels around the Europe. Learns, creates, meets famous of his time and tries to mask his disease by heavy alcohol and drug use. Then, the man creates more, the he destroys. Becomes unstable both physically and mentally. Becomes the legend of Parisian Montmartre - stripping naked on tables, having multiple affairs, creating misunderstood art and drinking himself into oblivion. He dies young. Only to be globally recognized several years later as one of the greatest artist of his time. Meet Amedeo Modigliani.

Harry Ally - Paintings

We think that we're free. We can walk wherever we wish, talk whatever we want. Yet it's not quite so. We are just bodies - walking, functioning, slowly decaying meat that has this unique ability to store something called consciousness. No, I'm not starting to write a blog about philosophy, but today's works are about existentialism. Harry Ally is a Texan painter with a lot of experience in both panting and, what can be seen in his works, life.

Weekly Interview #10 - Jen Ray

Tell us about yourself and your work.

I create large-scale paper works featuring Amazonian women in dystopian landscapes. That's the short version. I also create performances based on the drawings and occasionally make sculptural works and video which is shown in conjunction with the performances. 

The works are focused on women who exhibit "bad behavior". They are rebels and revolutionaries making their own world on top of the ruins of other worlds. There is always a building up and a pulling down. And always wreckage of some sort, representing a smashing of the old order.