When Royal Glamsters submitted his Hooly designs, i knew i was onto something. If images transport memes, this one does. Hooly immediately reminded me of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night. Both art pieces share a certain, unmistakable, wooly dilemma.

Hooly World was a finalist in the YayArtist'08 competition. It was rated as one of the 24 most popular pieces, out of almost 400 submissions. All 24 finalist art pieces were displayed on giant cubes at Kings New Square in Copenhargen, Denmark.

Source: YayArt'08 exhibition opposite the Royal Danish Theater

YayArt offers reproductions on canvas, based on digitally processed master copies. The pieces are “produced on real canvas, using only quality materials and the latest technology available”.

As somebody who also relies on “quality materials and the latest technology” i can tell you that this is the hardest part to demonstrate on the Internet. In the realm of fine art prints, you get what you see, but you have to touch to see clearly. With other words, the only way to judge quality is with your own eyes and hands on the real product. Photos on the Internet are the only other, lossy, way to get an impression beforehand—and that is why feedback is very welcome.

Hooly World on canvas is available until 500 pieces are sold.

Sabine Groten will exhibit her work as part of a showcase of Photography, Mixed Media and Digital Art.

Experience Florian Beckers' dealing with "The Vanishing of the Images" or the results of Sabine Groten's Fusion of Design and Photography, or Andrej Glusgold's contemporary "Fairy Tales" and Wolfgang Herbold's "Digital Mapping to Human Nature"... Yoko Mazuki's approach to the "innocence of Insects and Plants" or Brooke Lydecker's latest "Untitled" photographs and Djani Ivancevic's atmospheric dense B&W Photography of his "Melancholic Diary".

Take A Chance is an invitation to become familiar with and go for the work of upcoming talent. An inspiring chance to start a collection or turn the page to open a new chapter for an existing collection.

June 15 — August 31, 2008
The OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art

Nite Stories consists of 11 acrylic paintings, capturing unusual and unconventional moments of young peoples' nights out. Aleosa will be at the exhibition opening on Thursday, June 5th 2008, to present her work. "I worked on the Nite Stories project for the last couple of months, and I'm finally ready to show it".

The images are based on photographs by Mark Hunter—thecobrasnake, who will be there, too. For this project, Aleosa used dark backgrounds offset by brightly coloured characters from Mark Hunter's photographs, giving them a mysterious touch.

The project is inspired and encouraged by Soulwax Nite Versions. Stephen Dewaele:

In a day and age where everyone takes digital pictures, posed in almost globally similar ways, posted instantly all over the web, it's refreshing to see someone adapt this world to canvas and blow up these little mini-observations of nite-life...

Sabine stellt ihre Photos im Rahmen der Ausstellungsreihe „AIXCELLENTE KUNST“ in Aachen vor - noch bis zum 5. Juli. DesignFaces zeigt “eine Serie von fotografierten Selbstportraits der Künstlerin, die sie mit Grafiken, Typografien, Designelementen und Zeichnungen am Computer auf eigensinnige Art verfremdet hat”.

Einige Photos sind auch online bei Artbreak zu sehen.

The OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art will be presenting photography works by Sabine Groten, as part of Portfolio, “an eclectic exhibition focusing on that part of the artists oeuvres, which has been dedicated to one special theme”.

Sabine, who made the BAD FACE SHUFFLE design for the iPod shuffle, about her work:

Different picture drafts, designs and developing arrangements as well as collages, based on photography, vector diagrams and sketches. Many works are on the basis of photographed selfportraits, which show me in a certain period of my life or document my everyday life. By my treatment of the Portraits at the computer the topic of the own person as well as my selections are resumed and manipulated. Thus this series of pictures based on the fusion of graphic-designs and photographic portraits contain a common component, which represents both elements partly with equal standing, as well as with new stress ratios and picture effects. Thus completely normal everyday life photos get a completely own and certain personal aesthetics, which are different with each picture.

Image caption: ...Je vois te...

Portfolio, International Contemporary Photography

Where: OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art, Huntington Beach, California.

When: From January 26 until February 23. Free Entrance at the Reception on Saturday, January 26, 2008 from 5 - 7PM.

Why: “Some of the photographs in the exhibition strive to critique the societal archetypes, others may provoke by being explicit. ”

Olka Osadzinska exhibits at the brand new Nike Concept Store - Warszawska Nike - the first store like that in Warsaw, and the first in Poland. The grand opening is on the 5th of June, at 08:00 PM.

The name for Warszawska Nike is taken from the famous Warsaw monument - the Warsaw Nike (here is a photo, and there another photo, and here one more).

Jak Malowane: Picture Me
All drawings that will be presented are based on Mark Hunter's pictures. I bet there is going to be lots of fun with the girls series which Olka began to create in December 2006. I have seen a few images; which are in a way both candid and iconic. And rosy cheeks are a common feature.

She will be joined by Damien Vignaux and Nico Andre, two very talented French graphic designers.

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Galerie Jeune Création

Cécile Belmont
"Exploits et défaites"

04 - 14 avril 2007

Communiqué de presse (PDF).

The exhibition "Exploits et défaites" of the Berlin-based French artist is to be seen in the Parisian Gallery "Jeune Création" until 14th April 2007. It brings together drawings and embroideries of war scenes and battlefield pictures, extracted from her body of works „Heroism, brutality, despair, friendship and death“ (2005-2006). How to get onto the thematic of war? How to commit onself? How to represent violence nowadays? Answering these questions, the meticulous embroideries and the light drawings clash with the brutal images of fighting soldiers, revealing the cruelty of conflict. The embroidered epics exhibit the slowness of their realisation - each stitch is one second - evoking the time of expectation, speculation and remembrance of the people waiting tirelessly for the return of the fighter.

Galerie Jeune Création
6, villa Guelma 75018 Paris France
Jeune.creation@free.fr - www.jeunecreation.org
01 42 54 76 36 - 06 61 42 18 33

Take a look at Cécile Belmont's sticker designs.

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