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Takashi Murakami. We still wonder why it took us so long to post about him. Even if we usually choose unexpected artists, the ones you don’t read much about, we had to make an exception for Murakami. From “My Lonesome Cowboy” (1998), an anime-inspired sculpture of a masturbating boy, sold for $15.2 million at Sotheby’s, to the exhibit of his works at the Palace of Versailles in France in 2010, Takashi Murakami is always creative, ...

For this new ‘Art in‘ rendezvous, we decided to introduce to you a young (born in 1981) but already renowned Hungarian photographer, Daniel Halasz. There is not much information about him on his website but Wikipedia tells us: Halasz grew up in Hungary and later lived in Belgium and the UK. After studying at the University of York and the London School of Economics, he was admitted to the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. He ...

Olisa Nwadiogbu is an artist from Nigeria. He is a multi-media artist and has been working in his studio for 20 years. We love the colors he uses and the style of his paintings. Here is more about the artist from the The Guardian Life Magazine: “Art is not created in a vacuum, it is directed by the society, in which the artists live and work. The main objectives of my works are: Message, Entertainment and Aesthetics.” According to the respected ...

Maybe you remember Norwegian band A-ha and their first and biggest hit “Take On Me“? Well, Magne ‘Mags’ Furuholmen is the former guitarist/keyboardist in the famous band from the Eighties. And he is also an artist. He now goes by the name Magne F and his latest show was due to launch on 1 September. But according to the Art Newspaper Website, the artist had to cancel his provocative show ‘Futura Plus’ which included ...

Marcela Donoso is a Chilean artist and on Wikipedia we can read she is an important painter in the Latin American current of “Magic Realism”. We think ‘Magic Realism’ is exactly what defines Donoso’s work, especially when it comes to her paintings. But she is also a sculptor, and we guess her many trips to the United States and Africa (Mozambique) inspired her. Marcela Donoso also illustrated a book: Mitos y Leyendas de ...

We didn’t know about Reem Al Faisal and Lulwah Al Homoud before we read an article posted on CNN. Rima Maktabi, the author of the article titled: Don’t pigeonhole us, say Saudi women artists, writes: As Saudi women artists, Reem Al Faisal and Lulwah Al Homoud, feel they are fighting against multiple stereotypes. They are caught between conservative attitudes at home and western critics who expect them to address women’s rights in their ...

Do you remember the lampwork beads by Sherry Bellamy? We posted about the Canadian artist’s amazing work last year; now we want to introduce you to one of Thailand’s few internationally recognized woman artists: Pinaree Sanpitak. Sanpitak is one of Thailand’s most internationally recognized artists and she collaborated with Venitian glass-blower Silvano Signoretto to produce ‘breast-cloud sculptures that are both solid yet ...

Art in South America with Argentine artist Maria Parmo. She was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1959  and her art is clearly inspired by her studies in math which had a direct influence on her creations. Paintings, collages, drawings, and objects; Parmo draws and paints with an  identifiable style: symmetry, asymmetry, tubes and lines, abstract art in black and white or in color… We like the fact she expresses her talent in many mediums and ...

We first heard of Gianmaria Giannetti very recently, it was last July. The association «Artistes du Monde» (Artists from around the World), under the patronage of Marina Picasso, organized with the help of the City of Cannes and the Palais des Festivals an international exhibition that brought together some one hundred artists from 20 countries. Gianmaria Giannetti won City of Cannes Prize. Information about the artist is scarce and his official ...

Ousmane Sow is an internationally acclaimed Senegalese sculptor. The sculptor extraordinaire as many call him, had been sculpting since childhood and we are enthralled with his work. Whether it is a Masai warrior with spear and shield, wrestlers coupled body to body (see illustration below) or the Toussaint figure created in 1989 in Dakar (acquired by Smithsonian in 2009 and illustrating this post, left), Sow knows how to tell a story. Each sculpture ...