Duane Paul: Totems

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I explore the themes of identity alienation, self-realization and shared and individual struggle. Much of my art is process driven and through the process of making, physically working and manipulating material. The physical process of making the work is as important as the “finished” piece. The nature of my process and practice is to build layers and layers creating sculptural records documenting exploration of a

Kris Knight: Pretty Boys

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Kris Knight is a Canadian painter whose work examines performance in relation to the construction, portrayal and boundaries of sexual and asexual identities. Drawing from personal histories of rural escapism through imagination, Knight paints disenchanted characters that are lost between youth and adulthood; they hide their secrets, but desperately long to let them go. His mythical and ambiguous portraits are a synthesis of fantasy and

Hsiao-Ron Cheng: Kindred To Bloom

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Hsiao-Ron Cheng is a 1986-born Taiwanese digital artist/illustrator. She started to work as a freelance illustrator in 2012 and soon get international attention. In the same year, her work has been shortlisted for Young Illustrator Award. Hsiao-Ron’s clients range from fashion brand to design agencies worldwide. Other experiences include a digital painting of 8ft mural for coffee shop interior design. ” Photoshop is my kung-fu.

Takeshi Kitano: Hana-bi

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Hana-bi o “fiori di fuoco” racchiude due opposti in un’alternanza tra violenza e dolcezza, realtà apparentemente antitetiche ma nel senso assoluto della storia rappresentano un incontro vicino e complementare. Il colore rosso, predomina per quasi tutto il film, quel sangue sporco che si dissolve in un dipinto di paesaggi come la storia di Horibe (uno dei personaggi) che dopo un tragico incidente ritroverà il senso

Margaux Hug: Joyful Joyful

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Photographer and artistic director, Margaux Hug has developed a surreal visual world with bright colors pop. Combining graphics and photography, she is now working in teams on advertising projects for major luxury brands. “….I’m not really travel photos, I have never loved nature photography. My work revolves around the studio photographs, precautionary pop and surreal scenes. I think the picture a week or two in

Tara Donovan: Morphologies

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Donovan says of her work, “It is not like I’m trying to simulate nature. It’s more of a mimicking of the way of nature, the way things actually grow”. With regards to her artistic process, Donovan explained that she chooses the material before she decides what can be done with it. She noted in an interview that she thinks “in terms of infinity, of (the

Ramon Todo: Rocking

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“The rocks out here in the Northwest fascinate me. Growing up in Florida, there wasn’t much in the way of rocks that I remember.. just tiny pebbles and sand. But out here, there are big, beautiful rocks! I always marvel at the variety when we find ourselves in a dry, rocky river bed”. Tokyo born artist Ramon Todo splices pieces of stone, volcanic rock, obsidian,

Guy Laramée: Erosion of Cultures

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In the course of his 30 years of practice, interdisciplinary artist Guy Laramée has created in such varied and numerous disciplines as theater writing and directing, contemporary music composition, musical instrument design and building, singing, video, scenography, sculpture, installation, painting, and literature. He has received more than 30 arts grants and was awarded the Canada Council’s Joseph S. Stauffer award for musical composition. His work

Harmony Korine: Spring Breakers

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Nasce una nuova rassegna di Risekult Movie, su tematiche generali dell’uomo e dei suoi principi esistenziali, un nuovo progetto che mira a raccontare il quotidiano, in maniera puramente personale, allo scopo di analizzare con una serie di 5 film, per ogni argomento, la vita e il suo stravolgimento. Un tema importante e generico, l’esistenza, rappresentata nella sua vacuità apparente. Una destrutturazione degli status symbol e

Hanne Friis: Structures and Paradoxes

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It’s a physical presence in Hanne Friis’s works. In the object, this is interwoven with all machining materials have gone through, and in the drawings, moving organic patterns reminiscent of man’s inner and outer topography. Hanne Friis’s art is thus driven forward by paradoxes. The amorphous, twisted and sammenfiltrete structures are fulfilling and wonderfully precise, but they are also on track to become. They