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Is there a better way to celebrate the New Year than by enjoying some fresh new art? We sure can’t think of a better way :) Anyhow- have a good great awesome one! Be happy, healthy, full of love and stay curious in exploring this wonderfull world of visual arts!
artists featured in issue 23 are: KEVIN KÜNSTLER CARMEN SALDAÑA Aleksandar Skoric Sasa KENSAUSAGE Benoit Jammes Kenvi Liang Andrea Dalla Fontana JUAN HERNAZ Yoyo The Ricecorpse (Y.T.R) Liat Aharoni
Hey I’m Kevin, I spend a bunch of my time drawing and animating creatures I’d really like to hang out with. I love nature, backpacks, skateboarding, eating bread and wearing capes and ponchos. One thing that fascinates me is the magic in all those little things. So with them I try to tell a story and give the viewer something to discover and often even the opportunity to find her or his own story in it. So I hope my work makes you wonder or even smile. If so, my job is done. I would like to thank my dear Eli for giving me the strength and love to go on and to never give up.
kevinkuenstler.tumblr.com facebook.com/kuenstlerkevin ello.co/kevin_koester instagram.com/kevinkuenstler
CARMEN
SALDAÑA
Carmen Saldaña lives in Gijón, a small town in the north of Spain. She used to work as a graphic designer in an AD agency but one day she started to hear little voices in her head saying: “do what you really want to do!”. Although this could be
a symptom of a mental disease, she prefered to think that it was the Voice of Art calling her, so she quit her job. Now she is a happy freelance illustrator who lives sorrounded by little birds, furry animals, brushes and watercolors.
behance.net/carmensaldana
carmensaldana.es
instagram.com/carmensaldana_illustration
Aleksandar Skoric Sasa Analog boy in a digital world, masking one person at a time, loving paper, trees, clean air, rebels, evolutionists and papaya. I mask to unmask.
Where the Wild Things Are Collaborative work based on the Maurice Sendak popular book Where the Wild Things Are. What attracted us to work together was admiration for Sendak’s style and his determination to never write a children’s book about flowers and rainbows, because to him life was not about that. Vasso and I have met the day we worked on these photographs, Vasso is a rebel, Vasso is a brother from another mother. concept, art direction Aleksandar Skoric Vasso Vujovic paperal masks Aleksandar Skoric photography Vasso Vujovic
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MONOCHROMA Do you remember when submergence into each other was. Now I cling onto your face as if softness is new hardness. Standing here emulating back roads pretending to be making forwards, and I wonder why. Slit height metal I try to collimate the light. Light, dispersion, absence of color. In the absence of light and color is feminine masculine enough. concept, art direction Aleksandar Skoric Marijana Maja Gligic paperal masks Aleksandar Skoric photography Marijana Maja Gligic
KENSAUSAGE Kensausage: is a freelance illustrator, living in a cottage on the outskirts of Barcelona. Date: Born in 1990. Character: He is an introvert, does not talk much and sweats a lot. Draws everything that goes through his head. Whatever. Weight: 40 kg Breed: Unknown Food: Only eats sausages. You can see him: On a morning walk, roaming the mountains or sitting on a rock. Hobbies: Playing his flute. behance.net/kensausage kensausage.tumblr.com
Benoit Jamm
I’m a 34 years o , ld french de signer. I live Paris, I love in sushi and I h ate wet sock s.
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Don’t you know that lemons and bananas love Tony Hawk too? Kickflip and nosegrind between the pan and the olive oil. Enjoy my new series called Skitchen: the secret sporting life of our friends the fruits and veggies on wheels. Who said that we don’t have to play with food? Eat better, skate faster!
benoitjammes.com
facebook.com/benoit.jammes.artworks
Kenvi Liang
is an illustrator based in Chicago, currently studying at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her focuses are mainly illustration and motion graphic. She likes doing watercolor paintings in order to capture the beauty of nature and lovely moments in her daily
life. She spent most of her adolescent years in China, growing and exploring new things. She is also a chocolate and tea lover! Her inspirations come from different sources, such as illustrated books, novels, pets, movies, music, and photos. She’s also inspired by different people and their stories in daily life, as well as her childhood memories. When thinking about them, there are so many sweet moments that she wants to illustrate and share.
kenviliang.tumblr.com
behance.net/kenviliang
Andrea Dalla Fontana Andrea Dalla Fontana is a graphic designer and illustrator who works in Biella (north-western Italy). On these pages you can find some of his favorite subjects: faces, old buildings and tales. Faces: some laughing politicians worldwide. Old buildings: sketches taken in Biella. Tales: illustrations for a never published “Bluebeard� I hope you will enjoy it...
andreadallafontana.com
issuu.com/andreadallafontana/docs/andreadallafontana_portfolio
JUAN HERNAZ Juan Hernaz is a spanish illustrator who collaborates regularly with local and national clients in Spain, as well as agencies, graphic design studios and clients from around the world. His work has been recognized with different awards inside and outside his country. During his phase as a Fine Arts Degree student in Salamanca, Juan fell in love with illustration and its capacity to build new atmospheres, new ideas and finally, to communicate. He admires the power of communication of a single image and thinks that the style must be fluid, strong and always at the service of the main purpose of the work. He deeply enjoys the process of illustrating children’s picture books because of their potential to create and recreate new and different worlds. juanhernaz.com behance.net/juanhernaz facebook.com/juan.hernaz
Yoyo The Ricecorpse (Y.T.R)
Born from an egg that came out of the “mountain of flowers and fruits�, flies across madagascar, drifts away through the ocean into London. *sound of an egg cracking* I am Yoyo The Ricecorpse, an unidentified creature drifting around in town...
yoyothericecorpse.com behance.net/yoyothericecorpse etsy.com/uk/shop/yoyothericecorpse instagram.com/yoyothericecorpse
Liat Aharoni A little about me and the series: I’m a fine art photographer based in Toronto, Canada. These images were created during six months of travelling in India, Indonesia and Thailand. Some are self portraits, and I believe that what unites
all of the pictures in the series ultimately boils down to the notion of holding on to the simple things in life and finding a divinity within them. Whether one has to look inward or outward, stripping the noise away and finding an appreciation for the simple things in life can lead to happiness. The following series is titled “Love Spirit Magic Adventure”
“Mother Warrior”
“Soul Serenade”
“Sacred Spaces”
“Dream Singer of the Violet Sphere”
“We Dream of Futures Boundless”
“Spiritual Wilderness, Unfold Me”
“Beyond Self, An Infinite Doubt”
“The Obscurity of Life�
liataharoni.com facebook.com/liataharoniphotography
“Love In Right Places�
instagram.com/liat.a flickr.com/liataharoni
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