frrresh visual arts magazine
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We are of age!
Now that we are 21 we are definitely a serious adult magazine. We can get married, sign legal documents, buy alcohol, stay up as long as we want, gamble or get into clubs and start acting like an adult magazine should. Also we can choose not to drive, drink, gamble, get married or act like an adult magazine :) we can keep on the fresh look and do what ever we want! Life is great- and so is this issue of Frrresh magazine- go on now, enjoy it!
artists featured in issue 21 are: Troy Coulterman Brad Kunkle Nicoletta Ceccoli XUEHKA- Xueh Magrini Troll Ines Kotarac AurĂŠlie Garnier Beatrice Cosimi CBTD Chen Marabelh Jonathan Ball AKA: Pokedstudio
Troy Coulterman
Troy hails from Arnprior, Ontario, Canada and currently live in Regina Saskatchewan. His work features three-dimensional human figures, which he crafts from resin in bold, unexpected colours. His pieces have been described as “graphic novel characters in 3-D” and his unique aesthetic blends influences of figurative sculpture with contemporary comics, cartoons, and popular culture in an attempt to make sense of the nonsensical and to find the extraordinary in the everyday. Troy’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, and his solo shows have stopped in Toronto, Portland, and San Diego.
www.troycou
ulterman.com
Brad Ku
unkle
The Belonging is an installation consisting of a painting with a video projected on it. The installation also includes a score that Brad co-wrote and recorded. The Belonging is currently shown at Arcadia Contemporary in NYC
Born and raised in the forests of Pennsylvania. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. New solo exhibition opens December 11th at Arcadia Contemporary in NYC. www.bradkunkle.com instagram/bradrkunkle
Nicoletta Ceccoli “I love to play with contraddictions, my pictures are like the dark side of a nursery rhime, dreamlike tought disturbing, dreamy with a hint of darkness.�
nicolettaceccoli.com
XUEHKA Xueh Magrini Troll To draw is the everyday scream that makes me find a meaning in this life. As huge as it may sound, but as simple as it is. I was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and belong to the third generation of women artists in my family. Drawing and painting has always being around me, like eating, walking, talking, it came to me like something natural, part of my daily life, just a way of communication. I draw everyday, whatever, on everything. On objects that I find abandoned in the streets, on clothes and bags, on apparently useless old stuff; in my never ending notebooks and also on walls sometimes. I talk, many times in a humorous way, about my life, things that I see, things that happened to me or to my friends… things that I like, things that I hate. I talk about my wishes, my illusions, my disillusions… I studied fine arts in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá and illustration in the Escuela de Arte 10 in Madrid. Currently I am studying Visual Communication at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee here in Berlin.
xuehka.blogspot.com facebook.com/Xuehka
Meditations about Death „From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.“ Edvard Munch
Ines Kotarac /// Where The Light Will Fall I was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, grew up in Croatia and live in Berlin. I studied Croatian language and literature and Comparative literature, worked as an art journalist and as a lexicographer,
but my main domain for the last few years is analog photography. For Frrresh Magazine I made a selection of my works that are some kind of meditations about Death.
wherethelightwillfall.com // wherethelightwillfall.tumblr.com
Aurélie Garnier To define these series of illustrations called “The Office”, I would say that it’s a story of love affairs among succulents. People who have indoor plants know that the foliage in a room can alleviate a sad and dreary atmosphere and create a refuge from everyday stresses. Plants can also eliminate common toxins from indoor environments and renew the stale air oxygen. Most of us only know two kinds of plants in offices: those silk ones, and these completely dry dust nests, resting on top of the workbook. Considering these benefits, you’d think houseplants are as common in offices as staplers and annoying coworkers! “The office” change our vision of succulents, by leading it to a witness position of love affairs and secretaries disappointments in offices. Hot hot hot!!! aurelie-garnier-illustratrice.tumblr.com
BEATRICE COSIMI
Beatrice Cosimi is a young Italian artist, she was born in Cecina (Livorno) in 1986, and now lives and works in Florence. She attended the Fine Arts Academy in Florence: in 2011 she graduated in Art of Decoration and in 2014 she received a specialist degree in Visual Arts and New Expressive Languages, both with honors. Her art has evolved on several fronts, from collage to illustration, from painting to installation, though she maintains a common thread with the concept of handling / processing with reference to the ongoing changes of society and human being. Her work consists in a study of the hidden truths that she tries to decipher through a manual language, made of symbols that conceal and reveal the subjects at the same time. At the base of her ideology there is an idea of concealment as a revelation more authentic than the realistic image, since it is a still image of a thousandth fraction of what may be the complex of an inner being. The paper, the technique of sewing and the graphic sign are the means that she prefers: her works are an investigation of contemporary society and dynamics in relationships, especially on the question of identity and individualism. cispras.wix.com/beatricecosimi www.behance.net/BeJaja
CBTD Chen I’m an illustrator working in Beijing, China. I always draw alone. Silence drives me to explore deep inside myself. And I like black and white for they are pure enough to make me feel peaceful.
behance.net/cbtd cbtdcs.tumblr.com
Marabelh
1000 viatges & more Facts : Since 2005, more than 1000 drawings of commuters on ParisCherbourg railway line. Concept : Drawings are made with black pen, in situ and without any subsequent touching up, models are randomly chosen without them being aware of it. Colors are defined in the comments (but only in standard Occitan language). Drawings are posted on Twitter and Pinterest same or following day. Texts could follow too. Mood : From September to April, it’s dark when first early morning train leaves at 05:54. Some commuters, when getting on the carriage, would immediately switch the light off without asking if anybody agrees or not. He would call them “switchoffers” and marvel at their disdain for others’ opinion. They were rough middle-aged men, wanting to sleep.
One morning, a few awake passengers complained against this forced switching off, a bit noisily according to him. Sometimes, “lamplighters” would come too, fanatic ticket inspectors imposing a rare and strict investigation at that very early hour, causing some discontent. One peculiarly fanatic ticket inspector even imposed once to keep the light on during the entire journey “for security reasons”. He felt he was neither on the switchoffers’ side, nor on the lamplighters’ : he would have liked everything to stay the same.
Marabelh (drawings & contact) twitter.com/Marabelh1 pinterest.com/marabelh/
Jonathan Ball AKA: Pokedstudio
Jonathan Ball is an illustrator and animator. Pokedstudio was founded by Jonathan Ball and has built a reputation for wacky and non-conformist character designs , intricate worlds and edgy video graphics. Inspired by a blend of sugary drinks, 1980’s video games and junk food he likes mixing together vibrant colour schemes and fantasy environments.
www.poked
dstudio.com
Editors: Rafael MilÄ?ić and pekmezmed Contact: mail@frrresh.org frrresh.org facebook.com/frrresh.mag instagram.com/frrresh_magazine
Photos and text: courtesy of each author unless stated otherwise