The Residents are an American avant-garde art collective formed in the early 1970s in San Francisco. Its members always appears masked. Their most iconic outfit consists of a tail coat, a top hat and a giant eye as a head. Even today, no one knows[...]
Iwajla Klinke is a german photographer based in Berlin. She travels the world in search of traditional clothing, which are hard to imagine being real as they are incredibly majestic. The artist’s research work is impressive. She unearths forgotten cultural garments from the past and[...]
Born in 1881 and died in 1955, Fernand Léger is best known for his cubist paintings and sculptures. But he also imagined a series of costumes and sets for the Ballets Suédois between 1920 and 1925. Created in Paris by Rolf de Maré, a dance[...]
Chinese artist born in 1985, Tianzhuo Chen graduated from the prestigious St Martins Central College and the Chelsea College of Art and Design and works in Beijing. Rising star of contemporary art, his productions were shown at the Palais de Tokyo in 2015 for his[...]
Elsa Parra and Johanna Benaïnous are visual artists based in Paris. They met at the School of Visual Arts of New York and frequently work together. In their very cinematic photo series A Couple Of Them, which takes place between the United States and France,[...]
Phyllis Galembo is a photographer based in New-York and she’s a professor in the Fine Arts Department of SUNY Albany since 1978. She has spent the past twenty-five years photographing rituals and religious culture in Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and Mexico. Masking is a[...]
Renowned Korean photographer’s Kim Kyung Soo Full Moon Story appeared in Vogue Korea in October 2008. Hanbok (한복, hanbok) is a traditional outfit many Korean people used to wear during the festivities called ‘Chuseok’. Usually, it’s known to be produced with vivid colors and simple[...]
Artist Kaarina Kaikkonen from Helsinki in Finland is one of the major artists of Scandinavia. Throught her monumental work – strongly imfluenced by the environmental and architectural elements surrounding her pieces – there is a strong link to the impermanence and frailty of materials pointing[...]
Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru. She currently lives and work in San Jose and have lived many years n Philadelphia, USA. Her photographic work offers a thought about appearance, landscape and invisible body. Photo-performances of Cecilia Paredes displays her own camouflaged body with[...]
Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943), as teacher at the Bauhaus, but also as peinter, sculptor, set designer and choreographer, creates in Germany in 1922, Das Triadische Ballet (The triadic Ballet), divided in three acts, on a music composed by Paul Hindemith. Schlemmer creates the very modernist and[...]
Growing up heavily influenced by the lakes, forests and natural beauty of her native Midwest, Alix Lukas is a freelance illustrator based in Chicago. Her work celebrates the beauty of unusual forms, exalting the intricacies of nature in detailed gouache and colored pencil renderings that[...]
Shikhei Goh was born in Dabo (Riau Islands) and now lives in Batam Island, an industrial island about 45 minutes by boat from Singapore. He first started taking pictures using a DSLR in 2011 and tried taking pictures of many things but really has a[...]
Famous contemporary artist Catherine Chalmers holds a B.S. in Engineering from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited her artwork around the world, including MoMA P.S.1, New York; MassMoca, North Adams; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle[...]
