frrresh visual arts magazine
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we never thought we would make it to issue 20! But here we are - still making the magzine and enjoying every aspect of it. As you all know, we are doing this with no money involved, in our free time and fueled only by our love for art and your love for the magazine :D and there’s plenty of it! <3 <3 <3 As always- without further ado, we present to you this month’s featured artists:
Patrick Doyon Jesús Benítez Ducklin Whooli Chen Patrick Welham Vladimir Stanković Rafael Varona Thomas Everett Green Christine Mathieu Naoko Serino
PATRICK DOYON Since the end of his studies in graphic design in 2005, Patrick Doyon worked as an illustrator and director of animated films. His short film Sunday, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, received honors on the international circuit and a Oscar速 nomination for Best Animated Short in 2012, and won the Jutra in this category. His illustrations for various magazines have won numerous awards. vimeo.com/doiion patrickdoyon.tumblr.com doiion.com
behance.net/dhear dhear.tumblr.com
JesĂşs BenĂtez
Mexican muralist and illustrator, is recognized for work on a variety of mediums that range from paintings, sculptures & murals installed all over the world. With roots of graffiti he developed his signature style from a complex evolution of techniques influenced by his passion in literature, Sci-Fi, cosmic terror, movies, nature and artists.
Ducklin Name: ducklin Hometown: hangzhou, China Education: China Academy of Art, 2011-2015 Favorite animal: cat Favorite movie: The Fantastic Mr. Fox Loves: painting, watching tv, plants, animals Dream: become an Illustrator, and keep a cat in my own little studio. www.behance.net/ducklin www.lofter.com/blog/ducklin zhamiaozs@163.com
Whooli Chen
Whooli Chen is an illustrator based in Taiwan, a member of a creative duo { sometime-else practice. } She has a MA degree in illustration field from University of the Arts London. She misses an urban fox in London that she spent a summer with. She loves literature and art, whether together or apart.
www.behance.net/whoolichen
www.behance.net/sometimeelse
Patrick Welham A native of Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cornish coast, Patrick was brought up within a stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s throw of the sea in a land rich with Celtic influence. Though principally produced using digital methods, his work is a modern-day homage to Celtic knotwork and Scandinavian folk-art. He graduated with a first-class honours degree in illustration from University College Falmouth in 2008, and continues to live and work in Cornwall. www.patrick-welham.co.uk
My name is Vladimir Stankovic, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a graphic designer and illustrator from Serbia, currently based in Denmark. In my work I try to combine my love and passion towards illustration and graphic design, with the use of both traditional and digital mediums. My inspiration comes from science and nature on one hand, and fantasy, fairy tales and all sorts of mysteries on the other.
www.vladillus.com fairytalesandvampires.tumblr.com
Rafael Varona My name is Rafael Varona and I´m a Berlin-based Graphic-Designer, Illustrator and Motion-Artist. I studied Visual Communications at the University of Arts in Berlin and made my diploma about ornamental labyrinths in 2012 - supervised by the great Henning Wagenbreth and Heinz Emigholz. At the end of 2013 my obsession with any kind of animation started growing and I decided to give it a try and work exclusively in that area. I always loved to animate big sceneries with lots of details, my latest work “Impossible Bottles” rounds up that fascination I have with miniature worlds. It shows worlds kept in what appears to be a vessel.
As for the original impossible bottles they show objects that don´t really seem to fit through the mouth of the bottle. I found them to be an amazing inspiration to show animated worlds that are somehow limited or finite yet to include figures that observe their surroundings and experience it, maybe got lost but see the bottle, the boundaries and ask themselves how they ever got into it... I will definitely continue to work with animations, I am mostly interested to work with GIFs for the web. Animated loops in GIFs can be a very simple and clever method to improve the looks of a website! rafael-varona.com behance.net/rafaelvarona rafael-varona.blogspot.de
Thomas Everett Green My work is visually and conceptually driven through investigations and interpretations on the various phenomenology and ideas surrounding addiction--both as disease and obsession. The work may seem void of recognizable subject matter, leaving interpretations open to viewers who may or may not have any experience with addictions. But, from science I have drawn the basis for the images that I create. Initially, I immersed myself into the contemporary realms of microscopic photography, employing vibrant, simple color schema on circular shapes. The circular motif conjures visual relations to Petri dishes and the visual orientation of objects “as seen” through microscopes. Suggesting the rapid onset of addictions, each painting, or “cell,” is sometimes part of a larger installation that draws its placement from nature and the fruiting patterns from rapidly reproducing growths, fungi, and molds. The imagery was embedded in Petri dishes to create altars that allude to the glorification of addiction through media. All encompassing video installations provide viewer with a narrative into the patterns or cycles of the destructive forces in nature as they creep in, settle, take over, and eventually destroy a surrounding. The imagery is entirely composed from images taken from the paintings. Discomforting sounds are layered amongst beautiful melodies to generate a tension. The installations reverse the size relationship of the viewer with the microscopic organism, and generate a world in which they will unknowingly enter. Furthermore, it invites viewers to renegotiate their ideas on beauty.
www.thomasgreenart.com
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Christine Mathieu “I like going out of my memory ghosts with my hands”
Christine Mathieu is a French artist, born in the Alpes mountains region, who now lives in Montreuil near Paris. Work definition : “I take a radical approach to the way the subject is portrayed and in the way the shot is framed. My gaze has polished, planed and peeled the object to avoid any subterfuge. I do not try to seduce the eye; it is the soul that I address. It is my way of creating silence, stopping chatter”
christine-mathieu.com
Naoko
Serino
Three-dimensional expression using jute that contains light and air. Name: Naoko SERINO Country: Japan Material: Jute Fiber Primary Work: Fiber art. Soft sculpture Primary Representation:Installation art and Miniature art
www.serino.jp
Photos and text: Courtesy of each author Editors: Rafael Milčić and Pekmezmed Contact: mail@frrresh.org