HYBRID IMAGES Oriol Angrill-Jordà is known for his ethereal blendscapes, hybrid images which present human figures constructed from delicate landscapes. Blendsapes fuse two images into one, a figure and a landscape. The artist works in a variety of media – colored pencil, acrylics, pastels, watercolor, graphite and charcoal, but whichever technique he uses, he manages […]
SPIRITUAL REALITY INTO AN ICONOGRAPHY The relationships Dino Valls establishes, beyond aesthetics, are connected with the deep contemplation of the most spiritual, almost religious. All of this painter’s works spin around the transformation of what was previously called reality into an iconography or catalog of images which get their ultimate significance not from their own […]
AMUSING AND TRAGIC AT THE SAME TIME Guim Tió Zarraluki is a Spanish artist who takes a bright swipe at contemporary standards of beauty with his astounding portraits. In his practice, Gium Tió alters fashion magazine images with chemicals and oil pastels transforming attractive models into abstract and sometimes unsettling figures. The primordial picture is […]
FULLY TATTOOED Ramon Maiden re-appropriates vintage illustrations from postcards, calendars, and various prints to transform them into fully tattooed characters and subjects with a mere ball-point pen. By painting over these old images, the artist offers a glimpse into the power of the invisible, using everything from Vargas pin-ups to religious prints depicting Saints and […]
