NO STYLE, ONLY SOMETHING VISUAL Eugenia Loli: “I’ve been a (terrible) nurse, a computer programmer, a (rather successful) technology journalist, and a filmmaker. In April 2012, after I had just finished an animated music video, I decided to try collaging after the knowledge I gathered from making the animation. I don’t believe that artists should […]
A CHAOTIC LIFE, WITH A SENSE OF ORDER Some years ago, artist Rafael Varona caught the world’s attention with a series of animated GIFs that depicted magical worlds trapped inside tiny glass bottles. The success of the “Impossible Bottles” series led to a number of new illustration gigs, and Varona eventually moved from Berlin to […]
EROTICISM, BRUTALITY, AND ETHEREALITY Vania Zouravliov grew up in an artistic family. His mother was an art teacher and so his picked up painting from a very young age. His adolescent influences were both typical and unusual: The Bible, Dante’s Divine Comedy, early Disney animation and North American Indians, included among them. Soon enough, he […]
THE FLYING FIGURES OF REBEKA ELIZEGI The handcrafted works of Rebeka Elizegi, a collage artist based in Barcelona, Spain, come in varying sizes and scopes. The artist says that she’s often fascinated by what the observer interprets from her surreal works, with much of the visuals intentionally garnering differing takes. “I have dedicated many years to working with this […]
A DEVOTION TO THE ASTROLOGIC ENVIRONMENT Mariana Palova is a young Mexican woman born in 1990. She finds in the positive, living and colorful metamorphosis her own cosmogony essence. She plays with the transformation and the influence of experiences, surrounding herself of an aura, and having special devotion to the nature elements, analogies, the substitution, […]
THE TROPHIES OF LIFE AND DEATH Lifo Kim is an illustrator and tattoo artist based in South Korea. Each illustration features broken objects, burning candles, sacrificial knives, royal skulls, opium pipes or chiseled chess pieces, carefully exposed like the trophies of a cabinet of curiosities. In this place, oriental deities seems to haunt shadows creatures: insects, […]
