Frrresh Visual arts magazine second issue
Greetings
and welcome to issue no. 2 of Frrresh mag! A free online magazine that features talented visual artists from planet Earth. We are happy to report that our first issue was well recieved by the readers, the artists and general public. It got some amazing reviews in art magazines, art blogs and culture radio shows. Thank you all for being here, supporting these great artists and for your kind words and suggestions <3
Artists featured in this issue Marina Muun John Campling Jared Muralt Dem Tomislav Zidar (Djuvedj Djuvedjevich) Troncoso Emir Ĺ ehanovic ESH Matea Jocic Marina Marinski Lonac Vanja Trobic
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Marina Muun
Marina was born in Bulgaria in a town by the sea, grew up all over the place and is currently based in the UK. She enjoys drawing and painting various things and gets her inspiration from the natural, unnatural and supernatural and everything else that might be lying around. Every painting she creates is an attempt to capture and convey a feeling, a thought or a daydream and infuse them with a sense of the fantastical and a love for detail. Her paintings have a deliberate na誰ve feel.
www.marinamuun.com
John Campling
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am possibly one of the laziest Artists around. My output is glacially slow. I love to draw in Biro, usually just starting a line with no preconceived ideathats how Bowl Ladies and Floating Weeds are born. Fragile lines barely there in places. Robots in Knitwear is an ongoing project to actually produce knitwear for sculptures. The toasting Fork Motif is an imaginary fable about Simplicity Vs Fad through the beauty of engineering. I am the founder of an international Motorcycle gang called The Mean Fuckers and play guitar all the time and just starting a new band called 748. Love to make music.â&#x20AC;?
http://jccampling.com
Jared Muralt is an illustration artist living and working in Bern, the calm and cosy capital of Switzerland. In 2008, he and his three friends Chippie, Mesi and Silvio founded the illustration and graphic design studio BlackYard.
http://blackyard.ch
http://jaredillustrations.ch
Like a modern alchemist, DEM creates weird characters, surreal creatures, inhabitants of invisible layers in the world of humans. Eclectic and funny, through wallpaintings, illustrations, paintings on canvas rich in allegorical language,
he lets the viewer find the key to that enigmatic and arcane world. The approach to anthropological themes related to nature stimulate the artist in a constant experimentation, reached in recent years to the production of a film and the creation
of installations made-up entirely of natural materials. Besides painting in condemned buildings and forests, ideal background for his works, DEM has also been guest artist at Goteborgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oro Gallery, and taken part in exhibitions such as Street Art,
Sweet Art (PAC, Milano), Nomadaz (Scion Gallery, Los Angeles) and CCTV (Apostrophe Gallery, Hong Kong).
http://demdemonio.org
Tomislav Zidar
Djuvedj Djuvedjevich
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my never ending search for affordable creativity, I have found a way to create while playing in Lego style. My game would take me through worlds unknown and back, and would end with a sculpture/toy that cheers me up the next day, and the next day, and when I get bored, I give it to someone... What I do is simple, I just disassemble things (home appliances and all sorts of electronics) and play with parts until I connect a result that makes me happy... Long live robots, kill all humansâ&#x20AC;?
www.djuvedj.com www.facebook.com/djuvedj djuvedj.etsy.com
Troncoso
Born in Talca, and now located in Santiago de Chile, illustrator Álvaro Troncoso (29) has been dedicated to combining his two great passions: music and drawing. For Alvaro Troncoso, everything that happens in front of his eyes becomes a benchmark, something worth recording even if it is only on a single sheet of paper. “I believe in the continuous flow of things -undivided- that expands or contracts as we live day by day. The art comes from that ´no place´, from the intuition” says Alvaro. Thus, the act of drawing has become spontaneous for Troncoso, a way to improvise gifts for his friends, scribbled gifts
that he has been sharing on Tumblr and Instagram for a long time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything we see around us is the product of our own spontaneous perception, I like to see myself as a tube which passes-or-no energy as it flows in the universe and that is represented on the pulse of what I do, often on my favor, is messy and discontinuous â&#x20AC;&#x153;, reflects Alvaro. Today, Troncoso plays drums in MĂśreno, keeps drawing compulsively and gives part of his time to an advertising agency. His drawings are evolving at this rhythm, and at digital platform pursue a fleeting and meditative connection, like an instant mantra in a parallel dimension.
www.alcyon.tumblr.com www.facebook.com/losmonosdetroncoso
Emir Šehanović ESH
Emir’s biography is underlined with numerous engagements in street art projects, graffiti festivals, group and solo exhibitions. He co-founded an art group “Manufaktura” and was an important member of the “Art of Asfalt” collective that brought together artists from the republics of Ex-Yugoslavia, that had their roots in skateboard culture and continued to use streets as their space of expression. Emir won numerous awards in the field of visual communications. He lives and works in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
www.esh.ba
Matea Jocic
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I make photos, videos, furniture, drawings.â&#x20AC;? http://mateajocic.tumblr.com
My name is Marina Marinski. I’m a jewelry designer born in Rijeka, currently living and studying ceramic design in Zagreb. During the last couple of years I have been working with different materials such as plastic, wood and clay. Organic properties of clay fully occupied my attention. I found it strong and stable and at the same time warm and genuine in its primitiveness. I’m using it in the service of fine substrate that gives me the option of highlighting forms and the possibility of reviving them with illustration. Using vibrant colors, motifs and a kid’s playfulness, I’m breathing life into them. The birds are a common theme in my work, as a symbol of inspiration, freedom and they possess some universal internal energy. My mind is lately occupied with developing a pottery line. Every piece is hand built and hand decorated, so there is a tactile quality of the surface and an organic feel to the form. Like in jewelry design, it’s all about simplicity, nature and childhood memories.
http://youtu.be/yaXrzBYyqLE
http://facebook.com/MarinskiJewelry http://marinamarinski.tumblr.com/
Lonac
http://vimeo.com/53834795
“Murals, sculptures, drawings, paintings… they are all illustrated metaphors gesturing abstract concepts belonging to my personal symbolism.”
lonac.blog
gspot.com
Vanja TrobiÄ&#x2021;
Vanja TrobiÄ&#x2021; is young painter, illustrator and muralist
from Zagreb, living and working in Rijeka. She creates paintings as intimate myths or dreamlike visions, thinking of them as of the gateway to a transhistorical world. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investigating personal identity and relations between our natural habitat and society. Focusing on the importance of childhood, she portrays children as a newly awakened generation to make some notable changes in the world. Obviously a damn romantic!
www.facebook.com/kiklopove.kronike
www.behance.com/vanjatrobic vanja-trobic.blogspot.com
Name your favourite:
Marina Muun
John Campling
...food
I’m a big fruit and veggie fan but I must confess I have a weak spot for Happy Hippos!
Tuna steak with blitva
...way to relax
I like going on walks and discovering new places. It also helps me clear my head and get some exercise!
I build and ride motorcycles from 1950s to late 1970s, mostly non standard
...musician/ band
I don’t really have a favourite one, but I’ve been listening to a lot of The Beach Boys lately! They help me get excited about my day in the morning! And I also always listen to CocoRosie to fall asleep.
Seeing The Birthday Party changed my life but I love so much music from old school country/ americana to original first time round punk
...made up word
Shmushhumpi!
I have so many
The guy who invented cave painting.
I was inspired by the Neue Sachlikeit dudes from Germany. I love anything provocative, erotic, shocking. Basically anything that doesn’t make me think “I could do better than that you fucking hipster”
...visual artist
Tomislav Zidar (Djuvedj Djuvedjevich)
Asian cuisine
Diving in to a surreal parallel universe while drawing and drinking along with my companions.
Tom Waits “swordfishtrombone”
It has not to be a chair, it just has to leave the impression of one.
Jean Giraud alias Moebius
Ginger
Being in nature
Kyuss, Lee Scratch Perry, Gong
You are what you eat. I take care of my food, grow it, prepare it, eat it, shit it... I do have a fully equipped kitchen in my laboratory :)
Mountains, everything about them, sometimes just thinking about them is enough.
Depends on the mood, but Kraftwerk, J. M. Jarre and Vangelis are my robots’ favorites, so we have them on repeat, daily...
Simbiazzi
Bendović
Daisuke Ichiba, Pieter Hugo, Sam3, Andy Goldsworthy, Adolf Wölfli, Hitnes
Maurizio Cattelan
Name your favourite:
Troncoso
Emir Šehanović ESH
...food
Chancho en piedra with marraquetas bread
Beans
Matea
Fast f
...way to relax
Respite
Gardening
On the c on the
...musician/ band
Akron/family, Animal Collective, Tyondai Braxton...
John Maus
How Co
...made up word
Wanchulero
Najkulji
They are a
...visual artist
Ernst Haeckel, Salvador Dalí, Roberto Matta, Norman Mclaren...
Uf , there are so many :)
Wolfgang
Vanja Trobić
Lonac
a Jocic
Homemade pizza
Popcorn
couch or e bike
Walking through the woods, lying on the beach
Playing my instruments, riding a bike
Walk in the woods
onvenient
Jose Gonzales, Kings of Convenience
Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer)
Hard to say, for a music addict!
all made up
Šmuti Patuti :) That’s how I sometimes call my doggy
Hattitude
Bazinga!
g Tillmans
Os Gêmeos, two in one :)
One of them would be Terry Gilliam
So many, but enjoying Marcel Dzama’s artwork lately…
food
Watermelon
Photos and text: courtesy of each author Editors: Rafael Milcic and pekmezmed Contact: frrresh.mag@gmail.com