POINTILLIST ILLUSTRATION Paris based artist and designer Kebba Sanneh creates unique pieces of art with a subtile dark mood. After studying at the Gobelins School and working as a designer and art director, he started to focus on illustration. With a very personal style mixing pointillism and drawings, surrealism, digital collage and animation, Kebba Sanneh […]
THE “CLOUD PEOPLE” OF OAXACA Something ancient. And mystical. Something familial. And familiar. Those somethings whisper from the state of Oaxaca, 300 miles south of Mexico City, where the Mixteca people, once the major players in Mesoamerica, built a thriving civilization whose name means “cloud people” in the indigenous language of Nahuatl. It is from […]
A SARCASTIC PAINTING Paul Neberra is from Mainz (Germany), where he spent part of his childhood, moving with his family to Portugal in the 80’s. At first glance some of Neberra’s works look like paintings of the classic Era, but it is in the details that we understand more contemporary aspects. You can spot UFO’s, […]
TATTOOS FROM THE ROARING TWENTIES Angelique Houtkamp is a Dutch artist and tattooist. She mixes classic old school tattoo imagery with mythological dreams, anthropomorphised creatures, nautical iconography, and haunting Hollywood romance, with her distinctive painterly magic and eye for style. Outré Gallery has published two monographs on Angelique: Tattoo Darling and Tattoo Mystique. Angelique Houtkamp […]
A POP AND ICONIC WORLD Technical skills may be the must, but only passion makes the difference. The Italian graphic designer Giulio Rossi, working on his studio in L’Aquila , is no doubt a flow of passion, and his works have gained international momentum. After his initial experiments with acrylic paint, ink and charcoal, this […]
THE CONFLICTING INSTINCTS OF DOMESTICITY AND DOMINATION “Although themes of power, submission and animalistic tendencies are still central to the work they are now located partly in the public world of politics and media, and less exclusively in the private, inner world of the artist Tamara Muller. The painting no longer focuses chiefly on the […]
