Barcelona-based jewelry maker Adriana La Manso is the catalyst behind gaudy rings. Notoriously sculpting rings from everyday materials, La Manso's accessories are handcrafted to ensure everlasting individuality and personality.
Barcelona-based jewelry maker Adriana La Manso is the catalyst behind gaudy rings. Notoriously sculpting rings from everyday materials, La Manso's accessories are handcrafted to ensure everlasting individuality and personality.
Combining multitudes of genres, Catnapp creates passionate and nostalgic atmospheres with powerful sounds. Her recent album, TRUST, is a testament to grit jam-packed with futuristic pop melodies; but it's much more than a sugar rush. It openly defies genre classification, absorbing high-octane elements of hip-hop, R&B, rave, and even nu-metal along the way.
Graphics with a groove, illustrator Thami Nabil (@recsoverto) takes you on a tip through his imagined landscapes. Melting and moving with seamless precision, Nabil’s retro influences are putting some edge back into the art world.
Moved by constant daydreaming, Elda Miniero is a multidisciplinary artist born in 1998 in Benevento, a small city in Southern Italy. Elda aka Eldorado on Instagram explores the intersection between a collective imaginary and her personal one building onto the whimsical fantasy of her graphically enticing imaginations.
“Nihilism is somehow embedded in our global culture at the moment. I am not a nihilist, I have way too many emotions to actuate non-meaning. I am in some way the opposite — everything to me means everything, and I believe in making even absurdity” Katherine & Jen — O FUTURE
“There will always be a core of each culture that will remain, hence the need to recognize, and appreciate, the diversity of cultures“ - Yannick Cormier
Whether it is a war, or pandemic, every new cataclysm creates a glitch in reality, wrapping everything in a new paradigm. Fluidity of Julia Beliaeva’s practice ensures the ability to evolve within the brand new context. Thus, instead of rejection, the change of a paradigm facilitates responsive levels in her works.
“Reading psychology books is like looking at human behavior through a microscope”: Art Director Wenqian Tan dives into human behavior with teddy bears and communism.
Cielofuturo arises around the visual research of artist Francesco Tosini on feedback in natural and technological mechanisms, an exhibition project conceived with the support of Unframed 721 and Matta to bring the conversation on art, NFT and digital assets to a touchpoint.
"The Milk of Dreams": Unveiling a Surreal Journey at the 59th International Art Exhibition.
Resembling a mixture of Wallace and Gromit-looking clay animation, from the shinny life-like stance of the designs alongside clear, sleek digital artistry, vxcl touches on a unique direction to art.
“The friction created by tethering virtual environments to charged physical locations allows for critical conversation to be had around what these spaces represent and the historical and socio-political events that surround it. This type of speculative criticality is more difficult to achieve through visualizations located within fantasy”.
MISBHV and Electronic Beats celebrate creative synergy within the community, dropping a Limited Ed. Capsule Collection, alongside with some special Trashymuse digital artworks and Coeval’s exclusive images.
“The garment design assists the body to be dressed providing enormous possibilities and facilities for different types and stages of body immobilities, at some point. Conditions like disabilities, injuries, pregnancy, or simply elderly will no longer require sophisticated body movements to accomplish this everyday activity.”
Inflatable garments, helmets with receding hairlines, and armpit cutouts are only a peek into the pieces that live inside Fey Fey Worldwide. Creating outfits that speak out, Fey-Fey is a designer that constantly challenges industry standards – for the low price of her soul.
“I think the creative language that Tarot cards use speaks to me both visually and conceptually. The fantastical, spiritual, and elemental narrative weaved throughout them has no doubt permeated my creative process.“ Alfred Pietroni
“I think creating animation in a game engine gives you a special malleability in your work, stemming from being able to work in an environment that is already rendered, alive, textured, lit up. It gives what you’re doing at the moment more opportunity for mistakes. It illuminates directions that wouldn't ordinarily have been taken if you were rendering out every frame through an ordinary 3d renderer.” - Jack Wedge
Infamously known and described by the contemporary Italian fashion system as of bad taste and “tacky”, Monella Vagabonda is now making a bold statement towards its past, taking a whole new perspective on the ways of producing not just a product but an imagery that is conscious, fun, provocative and genderless. Monella Vagabonda reborn “as an act of resistance to a past that exists and echoes in the hearts of all of us”.
“I felt that there should be more space for credibly creating positive visions of the future, and that cultivating optimism would facilitate that process. I was keen to explore the idea but also had a personal and psychological need to hold onto, and intellectually advocate for its importance. As I interrogated the idea, I learned more about myself and how positivity can sometimes be oppressive.” - Matthew Stone on his exhibition ‘Optimism as Cultural Rebellion’.
Ritual is about transition and rebirth, a hypnotic and inevitable dance that happens, swallows and then returns a new form. Inspired by the theme of ritual as a process of identity transition, Ritual is a project including an Editorial and a Fashion Film, born from the collaboration between Milan based stylist Chiara Trimigliozzi and designer Aurora Dolce.
