Aurora Cañero: Equilibrium

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A concern for statuary and the desire to use it to represent mankind form the backbones running through the work of Aurora Cañero, who has been able to modulate her postulates without being absorbed by contextual tendencies that either fall into crude academicism or give themselves over thoughtlessly to experimentation in a quest that seems to find its sole justification in that it is

Olafur Eliasson: Beauty

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Objecthood doesn’t have a place in the world if there’s not an individual person making use of that object… I of course don’t think my work is about my work. I think my work is about you. (Olafur Eliasson, 2007) Artist Olafur Eliasson is by no means the first person to emphasize the importance of one’s own senses as they engage with an artwork or

Bart Hess: From Fashion to Mutation

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Bart Hess (1984) explores several fields combining material studies, animation and photography in a surrealist manner. With his fascination for the human body and the manipulation of it, Hess pushes the boundaries of the textile design profession: his designs transcend the craft, as Hess chooses to extend them via other media such as film, photography and animation. His futuristic materials and textures blur

Anna Madia: Sleepwalking

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Anna Madia, graduated in Painting at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin in 2002. In 2011, she’s among the artists selected by Vittorio Sgarbi for the Italian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennial (Piedmont Region). In 2010 she won a triennialy workshop at the Ginkgo Contemporary Art Centre in Troyes (France) and in 2009 she became «tutor in painting» at the Albertina Academy

Aaron Shay: Tiny Delicatessen

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Aaron Shay is a Israeli miniaturist, an artist who creates mini objects once exclusively associated with doll houses. Aaron works primarily with polymer clay, a polymer clay that in recent years has taken a special importance and is used to create small jewelry DIY. Combines jewelry and food, creating micro art works that are sometimes indistinguishable from reality. Some are miniature decorative or collectibles,

5 Science-Backed Reasons Why Music is Good for You

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Music is a powerful medium: Not only does it make us want to jump to our feet and “shake it off, shake it off” (thanks Taylor Swift), but soul-stirring tunes also can help us fight through myriad health challenges as well. Here are five great reasons to pump up the jams, and listen with intent: It can help ease pain Feeling achy? A

Matthieu Bourel: Duplicity

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“Power of images and their combinations. Therefore all kinds of diversions. As well in music, sounds or films. Playing with elements, to make it mine. In Collage, I like to watch every picture as the point of departure for a story. Various durations, gathered in one. to evoke a fake history or inspire nostalgia for a period in time that never truly existed.

Yamamoto Masao: Shizuka

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Shizuka (Cleanse) Living in the forest, I feel the presence of many “treasures” breathing quietly in nature. I call this presence “Shizuka.” “Shizuka” means cleansed, pure, clear, and untainted. I walk around the forest and harvest my “Shizuka” treasures from soil. I try to catch the faint light radiated by these treasures with both my eyes and my camera. In Tao Te Ching ,

Cute Circuit: Techno Couture

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CuteCircuit is headquartered in Shoreditch, artistic heart of London, where the Creative Director Francesca Rosella, and CEO Ryan Genz are the design duo behind all of CuteCircuit’s amazing creations. CuteCircuit come with a host of internationally fashionable and fabulous celebrity fans. Most recently, Nicole Scherzinger debuted the world’s first haute couture dress to feature Tweets, designed and created by CuteCircuit. CuteCircuit is also the high

Alessio Iacovone: Luminosity

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Artist’s identities are constituted by a multitude of signs, that combined together create a personal alphabet of images. Regardless the subjectivity of their meanings, these images generate symbolic significance that is ascribable to primitive shapes. The allegoric dimension plays an essential role in Alessio Iacovone’s artworks, alongside with the investigation of the relationship between personal experience and traditional symbolisms. The artist interprets them through