I absolutely love the paintings by Jung-Yeon Min, especially the first one here. What a marvelous way to depict the infinite pool of our imagination. This landscape of the headspace that can sculpt into everything. From the brightest glory to the darkest abyss and everything in between.
Jonathan Zawada
Over Time
Landscape topographies derived from graph data were modeled in 3D and then oil paintings created from those 3D renders.
Renzo Martens
Enjoy Poverty
Renzo Martens’ Enjoy Poverty is one of the most provocative films that have been circulating the art world since its release in 2009.
Molly Greene
False Vegetation Gods
I hope that I’m starting to play in that space between conventional ideas of what a human should be and what a human could be.
Storm Thorgerson
Taken by Storm
Thorgerson’s metaphorical language to me feels like as if Magritte would have been into photography instead of painting.
Berndnaut Smilde
Making Clouds
Berndnaut Smilde performs magic. I don’t need to know how he’s creating his indoor clouds but I love it. I totally share his fascination with clouds.
Lawren Harris
Summit of the Soul
Lawren Harris was born into one of Canada’s wealthiest families and was destined for a life in aristocratic circles, yet he always felt more at home in the great outdoors.
Yoga
Made in GDR
A practice of self-enquiry like yoga isn’t on the agenda of a system of control and conformity. But even in East Germany people pursued this path, despite the risk of arousing suspicion.
J.D. Okhai Ojeikere
Sculptures for a day
J. D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere’s work captures the intersection of cultural tradition and personal expression.
Ithell Colquhoun
Psychomorphologies
After decades of neglect, the British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun is finally recognized as one of the most exciting and creative occult thinkers of the 20th century.
Theo Jansen
Kinetic Automata
I follow Theo Jansen for many years now. What I like so much about his design approach is the playfulness…
Jon Han
Death and Transfiguration
The art of dying, the experience of letting go all that is known is almost forgotten in our culture.
Las Pozas
de Edward James
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
Oscar Reutersvard
The Impossible Figure
Oscar Reutersvärd is widely acknowledged as the father of the impossible figure.
Philip Kirkland
Energy Ecstasy and your Seven Vital Chakras
There is already another post about Philip Kirkland but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights
We all know this masterpiece but the delight is in the detail.
René Magritte
Evoking the mysterious
René Magritte developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar, to evoke the mysterious.
Orgyan Chopel
New Visions in Thangkas
Orgyan Chopel translates cryptic Buddhism into a simplified language of symbols, easier to understand and accept.
Boris Bućan
Reimagining Folk Art
Visually arresting and conceptually rigorous, the graphic design of Boris Bućan has recently experienced renewed international interest.
Pablo Amaringo
Shaman and painter
Amaringo’s paintings give a good impression of the quality of an ayahuasca vision. Pablo César Amaringo Shuna was born in…
Robert Fludd
As above, so below
Fludd was striving for an universal science, combining mysticism, aesthetics and the more rational sciences to an all-embracing system of knowledge.
