"5 minutes with..." an art project by German based artist Ralf Pytlik

"5 minutes with ..." is an international art project of the German based artist Ralf Pytlik. In five minutes people are used as a "model" to create a new artwork. You have to know that the character will not be presented as a caricature or kind of photorealistic rather the artist captures those people and creates a new high-level work of art within 5 minutes. The outcome of this is that Ralf Pytlik will release an art book in collaboration with a publishing company. More updates, please visit 5 minutes with on facebook.

Alex Garant's Double-Eyed Oil Paintings

Follow Alex Garant’s art and various projects on her website and Instagram. 

Paintings by David Rees

Visit @davidreesartist on instagram to see more!

Amazing Sand Sculptures by Ray Villafane

While Ray Villafane is best known for his expertise in the art of food carving, he is also recognized for his magnificent, remarkably realistic sand sculptures. Using just sand and water, the artist sculpts incredibly detailed figures that tower above him as he works. Funny-faced people, nativity scenes, and hellish creatures from Dante’s Inferno appear so life like that it’s hard to believe they were formed from humble grains of sand. 

Villafane only began sand sculpting in 2008 after accepting a challenge in Jesolo, Italy.

Despite not having any experience working with the medium, he wowed viewers with his exceptional craft, and since then has received invitations from all over the world to take on new sand sculpting projects.

Visit www.villafanestudios.com for more!

Hyper-realistic Paintings by Gioacchino Passini

                                                                                         Visit @gioacchinopassini on Instagram to see more!

The Vyner Studio - Call for Artists / Exhibiting Opportunity

Submit before: 31st of May

Media/s: Painting, Drawing, Printing, Illustration, Graphic, Calligraphy

Exhibition Date: 6th of June - First Thursday June 2013

Max. number of works permitted: 8

Min. size: No minimum

Max. size: 200 x 200 cm.

Presentation: Preferably  framed. The Vyner Studio have aluminium black frames that can be rented for the exhibition. You can request the prices directly to them.

Delivery of works: 4th of June

Collection date: 8th of May (Saturday) 10-1 pm,

Fee per work exhibited: 10 GBP

Commission taken by the gallery: 30% on the artist’s price.

E-mail:  submissions@thevynerstudio.co.uk

Subject: “Painting, drawing and printing June 2013”

What The Vyner Studio need from you:

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Website/Blog:

Media/s: (photo, painting, illustration, video, design, sculpture)

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When you e-mail The Vyner Studio, you will receive an automated answer. The Vyner Studio receive many applications and they will try to get back to you asap.

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Christian Awe Web Show on ART WEB RADIO

Visit the entire exhibition on www.artwebradio.com in partnership with "votreART" & "Arts, Artists, Artwork": For me music plays a very important role. It gives my work composition through rhythm and beats. Guru’ Jazzmatazz and Jamiroquai keep me awake at night. Hip Hop legends like Nas and Tupac help me pump energy onto the canvas. Travelling and discovering new music keeps me inspired, therefore Artwebradio's vibes give me the flow to continue my creative process. Christian Awe for Art Web Radio All Rights Reserved.

About the artist...

Christian Awe began his painting career as an urban expressionist painter on the streets of Berlin in the early 90s. At the Berlin Universität der Künste he studied under Georg Baselitz and received his “Meisterschüler” in 2006 under Daniel Richter.

Awe's paintings oscilate between figuration and abstraction and astound with expressive color. He employs spray paint and acrylics, ink and water-colors, markers and oil pastels. Through scraping, ripping or even digging out entire chunks of color, he exposes hidden layers resting beneath, allowing them to resurface, thereby creating poetic pictoral spaces that possess an inscrutability of depth. Upon closer examination delicate details – tiny bursts of color and stenciled forms - speak of Awe’s artistic journey, while from a distance, his compositions evoke associations not dissimilar to cloud formations.

As artist-in-residence at Princeton University, Awe taught experimental painting in Princeton in 2011. In recognition of Awes dedication to art education, he received 2012 the “Art connecting Cities” Award for social projects from the city of Perm, Russia. There he conceived a live-performance with the youth ballet and the installation “what you feel inside art”. Awe's large scale mural at the Pedagogical University now symbolizes the inspirational side of public art in Perm.

Last year Awe’s works were shown at the Orlando Museum of Art, the Permm Museum of Contemporary Art in Russia, at the Art Dubai and Art Cologne, and in 2012 in exhibitions in Berlin, Paris and Vienna. At the moment Awe is preparing a 500 sqm public art installation to be realized in Berlin in the summer 2012.

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EXPO CHICAGO/2013 Applications now available!

EXPO CHICAGO/2013 Applications now available

September 19–22, 2013

Navy Pier – Festival Hall

600 East Grand Avenue

Chicago, IL 60611

www.expochicago.com

After a successful first year, EXPO CHICAGO returns to Navy Pier in 2013 from September 19 to 22. Download the exhibitor application here. 

The inaugural EXPO CHICAGO presented over 120 leading international galleries, including a section of younger galleries in EXPOSURE, highlighting one to two artists from their programs. In its first year, the exposition drew over 27,000 patrons to Navy Pier, reaffirming Chicago’s place as an international art fair destination.

EXPO CHICAGO’s widely acclaimed floor plan and design was conceived by noted MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang from Studio Gang Architects (SGA). SGA will return for the 2013 edition to further shape the design of the exposition and to refine the space for our exhibitors to present artists’ work.

Several landmark programs were introduced this year and will return in 2013. IN/SITU, organized by noted independent curator Michael Ned Holte, was made up of site-specific and large-scale installations placed strategically throughout the fair, featuring works by artists such as Robert Barry and Tony Feher. The critically acclaimed lecture series, /Dialogues, presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) drew large crowds during the run of the exposition. Highlight discussions included noted New York magazine’s Jerry Saltz, who exclaimed, “From now on art people should flock to Chicago,” as well as Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby and artist Alec Soth.  

EXPO CHICAGO will again collaborate with local institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Arts Club of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, the Smart Museum and more to organize breakfasts and exhibition openings.  Chicago’s top collectors will once again open their homes for collection tours as part of our VIP program.

“EXPO CHICAGO proved to be an impressive fair that brought the international art world together to celebrate Chicago as a not-to-miss art destination,” said MCA Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn. “The caliber of the galleries and artists represented was phenomenal. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago was honored to be part of the fair with Vernissage, the hugely successful preview party organized by talented MCA Trustees who also acquired great artworks, some of which are promised gifts to institutions right here in Chicago.”  

Collectors, dealers, patrons and critics alike agreed that EXPO has returned Chicago to its legacy of hosting a prominent art exposition. For more information visit http://www.expochicago.com/.

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http://www.expochicago.com/

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'Continuum of Consciousness' Installation Made of Crystal Glasses by Linda Sim Solay

     In this life I believe that people who devote himself to the positive things, and do it consciously, having an invisible light that emanates from the body, either downward (into the earth) and up (to the sky), no end. But I do not know how to visualize it until I saw an exhibition pamphlet, mentioned Continuum of Consciousness by Linda Sim Solay.

Source: http://fatumbrutum.blogspot.com/

With great curiosity, I decided to come to the exhibition held in the auditorium of the Institute Français Indonesia (located in Bandung, West Java - Indonesia), 12-25 October 2012, to see if this is the visualization of what I mean.

At the entrance I met the curator, Roy Voragen from Roma Arts. He gave me a leaflet containing information about the work being exhibited in the room. I intentionally do not directly read the details of this installation, just to make sure I will react spontaneously and not "intimidated" by what is supposed to be felt. A room with dim light around. Immediately my mind focused into crystal glasses which are glued together, forming a pillar in front of me. Flanked by two round mirrors on the top and the base with pieces of broken glass around, complementing this arrangement as if it's endless. The light shines in the glass at the base, with a particular dynamics.

”The created space can be perceived as a continuum, allowing for both focus and contemplation of its personal experience, without sensory starting- or endpoints. Notably, the very nature of a continuum lies beyond intellectual analysis.” -Linda

If I am allowed to describe what I see beyond what I have seen, this installation lock both energy derived from the material used, the room around, or even the energy carried by the visitors. It feels like there is a vortex of energy, such as fog, in the room that surrounds the pillar as its center. Me myself imagine that pillar is a man meditating with high concentration within, constantly sitting in the middle of a dynamic vortex energy. Physically, this installation makes me a little headache, probably due to the effect of scent, or perhaps even the existence of discrepancies in the energy that we both have. 

Source: http://www.lindasim.com/

At the end of my visit, I realized the existence of the benches around me is part of the installation. Take a sit and dwell on it, become one with the energy in the crystal glasses to feel the effect in more optimal, and you will not have a headache as I have. Well, whether this is a visualization what I mean or not, this 'Continuum of Consciousness' installation has given a spiritual experience, even though for just a moment.

About the artist...

Linda Sim Solay is a Swedish-Austrian artist whose practice in fine art photography and installation focuses on psychological evolutionary thematics and contemporary physics. Her work is orientated around shaping audience-internal atmosphere and potential for perceptive immersion. She has exhibited internationally in numerous solo, collaborative and group exhibitions; framed by extensive travels and artist residencies. Linda earned her BA in Media Arts from RMIT in Melbourne under Dr. Les Walkling in 2005 and is currently studying for her MA researching Scent Art at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore. http://www.lindasim.com/

EVENT: SP-Arte/2013

Photo of SP-Arte/2012

São Paulo International Art Fair

New Dates  : April 3–7, 2013
Preview      : For VIP/Press, Wednesday, April 3, Noon–10pm

Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo 2222
Parque do Ibirapuera, Portão 3
São Paulo, Brazil

Hours         :
Thu–Fri, April 4–5, 2–10pm
Sat–Sun, April 6–7, Noon–8pm

Applications
- Galleries that are interested in participating in SP-Arte, are invited to apply, please visit www.sp-arte.com for the online application.

- A complete gallery list will be announced in January, 2013. The deadline is November 15, 2012.

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www.sp-arte.com
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