Japanese florist artist Azuma Makoto captures the life cycle of flowers through moving illustration. In 2016, he surrounded himself with London illustrator Katie Scott, specialized in botanical drawings and with animator James Paulley for his 3D animations. The two creatives explore a dense and detailed[...]
Memento Mori and vanity… Death is one of the favorite themes of art history. On the one hand, death is often used to celebrate past lives or the existence of a paradise, on the other hand, it recall the inevitable end. Death is bloody, like[...]
Born in Shanghai, illustrator Nicole Xu now lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Her first picture book, All of A Sudden and Forever, Help and Healing after the Oklahoma City Bombing, written by Chris Barton, is published by Lerner Publishing. Throughout the pages, Nicole Xu[...]
After years of international success, singer Maria Callas collapsed in her parisian apartment on September 16, 1977 at the age of 53. From this sudden, lonely and still misunderstood death, performer Marina Abramovic created “7 Deaths of Maria Callas” : seven short films shown at[...]
Lisa Blumen is an illustrator. Based in Strasbourg, her book La vérité sur les fantômes has just been published in october 2020, by Éditions du Rouergue. Where do you come from and what is your background? I live and work in Strasbourg as a writer and[...]
For illustrator Ana Popescu who lives and works in Vienna, Austria, voids are the very protagonists of her story. “In my vision, empty spaces and their details tell a story. They leave a lot of room for the imagination. " In her compositions drawn with[...]
"The urgency to be seen is all the more great that tomorrow everything will be gone". This sentence, like a mantra uttered by Christo, seems to resonate more than anything today as his works are showed in two French museums. Made famous for their wrapped[...]
With Ad Infinitum, photographer Kris Vervaeke creates a serie of images by exploring the cemeteries of Hong Kong. The mortuary portraits of women and men, left in the outdoor, become, for the photographer, still alive representations of the deceased. Why and how did you get[...]
Like ghost files replacing a volume taken from the shelves of a library, Sophie Calle revives the borrowed pieces of museums leaving empty spaces behind. Invited in 1989 to the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, the artist discovered the void that the work Nu[...]
Articles’ illustrations, novel covers or personal experimentations, the illustrator Owen Gent, based in Bristol in the United Kingdom, creates images with dense storytelling. For his editorial projects commissioned by magazines, such as The New York Times, he illustrates the reality of sudden death experiences. For[...]
All it takes for Alexander Gehring's images to topple over into the occult world is a dark room, its red light, and extensive historical research. The German photographer who lives and works in Berlin, revalorizes analog photography. But above all, it renews the history of[...]
Visually, Rainer Kohlberger's films and installations can be understood as pure light generated by algorithms. Fascinated by noise from a very young age, it is not surprising that the Australian digital artist and designer is now creating work that mixes the influence of drone music,[...]
On the pages of a notebook, Amélie Vidgrain expresses, through blue monotypes, her relationship to life with which the supernatural sometimes mixes. Trained at the Oliver de Serres school (ENSAAM Paris) and the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (Akademia Sztuk Pieknych), this artist develops a[...]
