Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco has created stunning interpretations of several of
Picasso’s women paintings.
Eugenio Recuenco’s homage to Picasso
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Alexander von Reiswitz’ serious portraits
Alexander von Reiswitz, born 1965 in Málaga, studied art history before switching over to architecture and photography. His series ‘Zoogestalten’ contains serious portraits of the Berlin Zoo residents, strikingly capturing their personalities.
Urs Fischer’s melting statues
For the 54th Venice Art Biennale (2011), Swiss artist Urs Fischer created a full-size wax replica of Giambologna’s 16th-century sculpture ‘The Rape of the Sabine Women’ in front of a viewer. Both served as a giant candles, gradually disintegrating during the months-long show.
Miya Ando’s softly lit leaves
Artist Miya Ando is of half-Japanese and half-Russian heritage and is a descendent of Bizen sword maker Ando Yoshiro Masakatsu. Her 2012 art installation Obon – named after the Japanese Obon Festival that commemorates the spirit of the dead and is said to guide ancestral spirits home with floating lanterns – consisted of a thousand ficus leaves coated in a non-toxic bioluminescent resin, floating in a small pond in Puerto Rico. During the day, the coating absorbed energy from the sun and when night arrived, each leaf would emit a soft blue and purple hued light.
The idea is…
– Ashley Montagu
Justin Bartels’ impression
Justin Bartels is an American photographer. His series Impression showcases imprints left on women’s skin from the binding apparel they wear.
Images © Justin Bartels
Suzan Schuttelaar’s unfinished portraits
Suzan Schuttelaar is a Dutch portrait painter who’s seemingly unfinished portraits are simply stunning.
Spring light
Patricia March’s perception of time
Spanish artist Patricia March was trained in Fine Arts and Cinematography, hence her interest in movement and time. She aims to incorporate a cinematic style in her drawings and captures movement in terms of her own time perception, which is something like water; it erodes and destroys forms while building new ones.
Abandoned beauties
Hotel del Salto, Columbia
Holland Island, Chesapeake Bay, USA
Kolmanskop, Namib desert
Czestochowa, Poland
Nara Dreamland, Japan
Clara Lieu’s Falling
‘Falling’, a series of sculptures and drawings, visualises Clara Lieu’s personal experience with depression and anxiety. Unable to “release” herself from these episodes, she waited for the physical limitations of her body to end them.
Diana Al-Hadid’s “towers”
Diana Al-Hadid is a Syrian-American artist who lives and works in New York. Her sculptures take “towers” as their central theme, drawing together a wide variety of associations: power, wealth, technological and urban development, ideas of progress and globalism, problems of cultural difference and conflict. Her works are informed by myriad sources: Eastern and Western-ancient biblical and mythological narratives, Arabic oral traditions, Gothic architecture, Italian and Northern Renaissance painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy.
Eduardo Izq’s natural beauties
Eduardo Izq is a scientist who loves photography, and who’s female portraits are simply stunning.
© Eduardo Izq
Ronit Bigal’s body scripture
Israeli artist Ronit Bigal meticulously presents excerpts from sacred Biblical texts on the human body in her Body Scripture II series by getting in close to the contours of the human form, re-imagining the body as an abstract landscape. Via My Modern Met
Justing Maxon’s ‘A delicate nature’
Nicola Samori’s destruction
Italian artist, Nicola Samori intensely disfigures his Renaissance influenced paintings using a palette knife, a scalpel, paint or his hands.
“I like taking the image to a breaking point, putting its form into danger. My work stems from fear: fear of the body, of death, of men. I think my nature as an artist is something like feeling hopeless. Works are just temporary shelters and painting is a leisure place where you can conceal yourself.” Quote via Huffington post
© Nicola Samori
Tip Toland’s detachment
Tip Toland’s hyper realistic sculptures explore aging, particularly towards the end, and emphasise the detachment our natural decline brings; genuinely and intimately.
© Tip Toland
Sharon Core’s paintinglike pictures
In 2007 American artist Sharon Core recreated a number of still lifes by the 19th-century painter Raphaelle Peale, for her Early American series, by manipulating the surreally beautiful lighting and an assortment of objects ranging from flowers and fish to watermelons alongside genuine antique crockery and glassware.
© Sharon Core
Pedro Batista’s evasion
Evasion is a series of large-format paintings by Portuguese artist Pedro Batista. His figures fade into motion seemingly captured for just a moment in time.
© Pedro Batista
Life before death
Life before death (2008) is a series of powerful portraits taken by German photographer Walter Schels of people before and after they had died. His partner Beate Lakotta conducted interviews with the subjects in their final days.
“I wonder if it’s possible to have a second chance at life? I don’t think so. I’m not afraid of death — I’ll just be one of the million, billion grains of sand in the desert…” – Klara Behrens, 83
“No one asks me how I feel, because they’re all shit scared. I find it really upsetting the way they desperately avoid the subject, talking about all sorts of other things. Don’t they get it? I’m going to die! That’s all I think about, every second when I’m on my own.” – Heiner Schmitz, 52
“Death is a test of one’s maturity. Everyone has got to get through it on their own. I want very much to die. I want to become part of that vast extraordinary light. But dying is hard work. Death is in control of the process, I cannot influence its course. All I can do is wait. I was given my life, I had to live it, and now I am giving it back.” – Edelgard Clavey, 67
“My whole life was nothing but work, work, work, does it really have to happen now? Can’t death wait?”
– Gerda Strech, 68
Via The Guardian
