The Door of Perception
The art of the Australian native people is one of the oldest artistic traditions alive. This selection shows paintings from the mid-fifties until now by artists from the Arnhem Land region in Northern Australia.
I think the deeper meaning of the depicted myths is impossible to decode for an outsider. But even the contemplation on an outer level makes us feel their underlying unity with the land and their ancestors.
Source: exhibition catalogue “Gemaltes Land” — 1994
Stanisław Szukalski’s strong nationalistic affinity, coupled with a megalomaniac self-image made him the priest of a nation, that was to hail him the greatest of living artists.
I hesitated to make this post because what it reveals is a rather weird presentation of human desire. But ultimately…
Kilian Eng is one of the most popular futuristic illustrators of today. Also one of the most productive one’s.
Fini’s work blends elements of surrealism, symbolism, and fantastical imagery, with a fearless exploration of genderfluid identities and depictions of feminine energy.
Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser.
These portraits of the woods are influenced by imaging neuroscience. Especially the colors are reminiscent of the artist’s experience with fluorescence microscopy.
The photography of Tyrone Williams is a reminder that beauty is to be found everywhere — In trash cans, puddles and rearview mirrors. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.
I follow Theo Jansen for many years now. What I like so much about his design approach is the playfulness…
The mere fact that you exist is quite awesome. The way you came into this existence is a unsurpassable miracle hard to believe.
In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
The drawn structures depict the unfathomable abundance of sensuous impulses, in order to make it available for fresh examination.
After so much exploring the inner worlds and energetic realms, back to matter.
Keith Rankin is responsible for the sublime artwork of Orange Milk Records.
Deep and dark, this film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and psychotropic honey.
French artist Alexandra Duprez mentions Australian Aboriginal art as her main inspiration to take up painting.
Schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals turned into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter circles the red planet since 2006. The little spacecraft sends high-res pictures of Mars’ surface ever since.
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak is a daredevil with a good eye and the guts to go beyond what meets the eye.
